Folks, eight million things happened since my post on Justin Baldoni hiring a PR crisis manager, and someone will probably get to all of that tomorrow. Maybe. In the meantime, Halle Berry has entered the Blake Lively debacle because apparently this thing has guest stars now. While promoting her new Netflix film, The Union, Berry revealed that she ran into Lively, who asked her to reprise Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine. Berry said sure just have Ryan Reynolds call her. He, uh, he never called. (ComicBook)
The justification for Kylie Jenner as the first Kardashian to cover British Vogue is there “whether you like it or not.” — OK, but what if I had zero opinions on the matter and do not want to have one? (Lainey Gossip)
There’s a huge amount of studio outrage over Joaquin Phoenix bailing on Todd Haynes at the last minute. (Celebitchy)
Nikki Haley wishes Donald Trump was a completely different person. (Wonkette)
From Chris: This song is entirely gibberish made to sound passably close to English as a sort of parody of American music of the ’60s/’70s. I knew there was a music video as delightfully weird as the song out there and I finally found it again. (Vimeo)
Rob Schneider has apologized to his daughter, Elle King, which is good. But he did it on Tucker Carlson’s show, which is not so good. (Deadline)
Charlie Cox got a call from Kevin Feige in 2020 about bringing back Daredevil for a new series, and then he heard nothing for two whole years. (Variety)
Matthew Fox is slowly making a comeback, and wait, what did he do again? Let’s see… drunkenly attacked a female bus driver. Bruh. (TVLine)
Good news for people who love Hallmark movies but hate cable. (The Wrap)
Disney wants to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit because of a clause in the Disney+ agreement? What in the zip-a-dee-doo-dah f**k? (The Verge)
Joe Biden knows it was you, Nancy. (Daily Beast)
Dutch Cannonballer Zirza loves crime fiction and has some great recommendations for authors in her favorite genre. In this edition of Quick Questions with a Cannonballer, she also tells us who’s on her TBR, why it’s so hard to find time for books (her cat), and which author she loves to hate. “I just end up picking up his books whenever I’m at the library…they’re pretty terrible but they also require zero brain input.” Are there authors you hate read? (Cannonball Read 16)