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From lost vapes to delays, Lana Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd shows in Europe have gotten off to an expectedly messy start. The singer-songwriter only continued the chaos at BST Hyde Park last night, when she threw a shady reveal about her cop ex, Sean “Sticks” Larkin, into her song “Chemtrails Over the Country Club.” “He was born in December, and I was born in June,” she sang before riffing on the song’s outro.

Last night on Conan, Mike Tyson recounted the time the “handsome Brad Pitt” completely deflated his mission for a morning session with ex-wife Robin Givens, and he couldn’t even get up to fight for her  — “I was just emotionally comatose because I went from a hard stallion to a wet noodle.” (Hand gestures included.) Plus: Rachel Dratch recalled her date with a cannibalistically curious horsemeat eater; and Maya Rudolph and Jason Biggs had a really awkward hug.

Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Well, this isn’t great. Indiewire’s “Women and Hollywood” blog went digging in WikiLeaks’ searchable treasure trove of leaked Sony emails and found a message that appears to be from Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, sent to Sony exec Michael Lynton. It was sent last August and bears the ominous and blunt subject line “Female Movies.” We don’t know the context, as it seems to be a follow-up from a phone call, but here’s the email in full:

There’s a scene early on in the new movie Hereditary that forces you, as a viewer, to accept that you’re totally screwed, to embrace the fact that you’re at the whims of a madman. When you first wade into the movie’s murky waters, it’s likely you clock the character of Charlie (Milly Shapiro) from the get-go and told yourself — a horror-film fan who proudly announces twists to their friends before they happen — This girl is clearly going to carry us through the movie.

The author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move. The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. Photo: Jeff Brown The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By most metrics, the author Lev Grossman’s life appeared to change irrevocably in 2009.

Seattle’s finest most available finally said “I do” (or “I don’t,” if you’re Paul). In the season-four finale of Netflix’s Love Is Blind, four couples made it to the clear tent, but only three went through with their holy matrimonies: Brett and Tiffany (duh), Bliss and Zack (surprising but also, I guess, not), and Kwame and Chelsea (not gonna lie, that one shocked me). With Marshall and Jackie ancient history (minus the former’s cameo at Brett and Tiff’s nuptials), it was Micah’s turn on the chopping block after Paul, for the sake of science, said “no” at the altar.

The new season of SNL is just around the corner, but that hasn’t stopped Lorne Michaels from making another movie this summer. Variety reports that Michaels is producing Brothers in Law written by Cameron Fay with rewrites from SNL’s Mikey Day and Taran Killam. Killam also stars in the film alongside Bill Pullman, Rachael Harris, Rita Wilson, David Wain, and Bobby Moynihan. Production started in Oregon this week, and the film is described as “having elements of Meet the Parents and What About Bob?

Luke Bryan. There was a time when having too youthful an image could actually be something of a liability in country music, a genre that privileged adult tastes and settled concerns. The few adolescents who scored country breakthroughs either sounded older than they were or strained to project weighty worldviews. All that began to change when Taylor Swift proved tween and teen girls would flock to country-pop songs that spoke their language.

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