Congratulations to Jenny Slate, who just got engaged to her boyfriend, Ben Shattuck, while the two were vacationing in France! The actress shared the news in an Instagram post with a series of photos from their trip.
“He took me to France and made a picnic and made me feel happy and free and then he asked me to marry him and i screamed YES. I love you @benshattuck_art, you are the kindest and brightest and I am so grateful and here we go and keep going,” Slate wrote.
True Blood’s fourth season is in the midst of shooting, but Jim Parrack couldn’t tell us much when we ran into him at the Dressed to Kilt fashion show last night. “Alan [Ball] just debriefed us last week and said, ‘Be very, very careful,’ so there’s not much that I can say about what actually happens,” Parrack explained, but he happily teased, “This is the most shocking season yet. The things that happen with the relationships between people and creatures are so unpredictable and severe, it’s wild.
Jonathan Groff. Back when Jonathan Groff toplined a revival of Hair, he was notably the only cast member in the free-love musical who didn’t have to take his clothes off. Still, don’t get the wrong idea about him: Groff’s not averse to going naked for a role, and in fact, images from his frontal nude scene in the film Twelve Thirty were all over the Internet last week. At last night’s premiere of Venus in Fur, we asked Groff if he had any idea that the DVD screen captures had hit the Net with a vengeance.
Throwback to Just Go With It. Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler are rebooting and reuniting. The Just Go With It duo will make a funny murder mystery for Netflix. Per Variety: “The story follows a New York cop (Sandler) and his wife (Aniston), who become prime suspects in the murder of an elderly billionaire while vacationing in Europe.” Sandler has a long-running deal with Netflix, but this will be Aniston’s first project with the streaming giant.
The Bikini Kill singer mined decades of trauma and joy to write her new memoir. She’s grateful she made it to the other side. Kathleen Hanna in Washington D.C., 1992. Photo: Linda Rosier Kathleen Hanna in Washington D.C., 1992. Like the feminist art she’s made for over 30 years — the incendiary punk anthems and DIY ballads, the electronic rock and blazing fanzines — Kathleen Hanna’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk, is by turns brutal and beautiful.
Ke Huy Quan’s victory lap through awards season has been a joy to behold. The selfies? Each one a thing of beauty. His role in Everything Everywhere All at Once was a tribute to loving and supportive husbands across the multiverse. But now Quan has made history becoming the first Asian man to win an individual film award at the 2023 SAG Awards. “This moment no longer belongs to just me, it also belongs to everyone who has asked for change,” he said in his speech.
The production’s official key art. Currently, this spring’s production of Kiss Me, Kate is the only musical revival announced for the 2019 Broadway season, but its stars Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase promise it won’t be the traditional restaging you expect. Clad in glamorous costumes from Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham, the stars spoke with Vulture at the show’s first photo shoot, and they promised that the essential elements of Samuel and Bella Spewack and Cole Porter’s 1948 musical (about feuding actors staging a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew) will be in place, but noted that there might be some aspects that need a second look.
Kelly Clarkson doesn’t mess around when it comes to the holidays, especially not Halloween. Last year, she bewitched us with a Hocus Pocus–themed performance of “I Put a Spell on You” (one of her best Kellyoke covers ever), and now, she’s trying to one-up herself. On the October 30 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Clarkson served us full Death Becomes Her realness, wearing an elegant, glittering gown as Meryl Streep’s Madeline Ashton on an eerie mansion set.
Eagle-eyed viewers watching Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks’ masterful performance of “Daddy Lessons” at the Country Music Association Awards earlier this week might’ve noticed a visibly unamused Kenny Chesney standing in a sea of movin’ and shakin’ audience members, seemingly not loving what was happening onstage. His Instagram and Twitter accounts were soon bombarded with an onslaught of bee 🐝 and lemon 🍋 emojis — à la a certain Becky — from the Beyhive, who were in full-on attack mode over the apparent slight.
“I wouldn’t have approached Kenny if I thought he was going to be super-sensitive,” Listening to Kenny G director Penny Lane explains. “It was very clear to me that he doesn’t give a shit.” Kenny G gets it. The chart-topping, Grammy-winning, multi-multi-multiplatinum-selling pop saxophonist — who released the most successful instrumental album ever in 1992 and is almost single-handedly responsible for creating the smooth-jazz radio format now inextricably associated with elevators, dentists’ offices, and waiting rooms — knows people hate him.