There Is No Beef Between Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively

Greetings and salutations, my Pajiban loves! It’s been a minute. I haven’t seen you since last year (Dad Joke). Mike was kind enough to fill in for me when I had the flu right after Christmas (thanks, Mike!), so I feel like I’ve been gone for so long. Did you all see any cute dogs when I was away?

Someone started a dumb rumor that Amazon/MGM was shelving A Simple Favor 2 because Blake Lively refused to promote it and because of apparent tensions between Lively and co-star Anna Kendrick. None of this is true. Director Paul Feig called bullsh** on it himself before explaining to the guy who started the rumor how post-production and release schedules work. He was nicer and more patient than he needed to be.

Kaleena will be covering the Sunny/Abbott episode today (and Mike linked to Roxana’s excellent interview with Abbott Elementary EP and writers), but there’s even more good stuff here about an extensive backstory between Frank and Mr. Johnson. Good stuff, good stuff! - (EW)

If you have a half hour, here’s an interview with Mark Cuban talking about prescription drug pricing, Blue Sky and how great it is compared to Twitter, and flooding the algorithm zones (couch-f**cking gets a mention) - (Wired)

Siri’s listening to you — but is it spying? Apple is poised to pay $95 million to users, but denies Siri was eavesdropping on purpose. - (VOX)

The Girl Scouts are retiring two cookies that I didn’t even know existed. I can’t remember the last time I ordered GS cookies. Now all I can think about is how much I want those cookies! - (NPR)

Andie MacDowell isn’t cool with how “matronly” is used as a negative. I agree! - (Glamour)

Sharon Stone is doing good work helping folks affected by the LA fires. - (Lainey Gossip)

There are many people doing good work helping folks affected by the LA fires; look for the helpers. - (LAT)

Stand-up comic Pete Lee was scheduled for a Thursday-night appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he used his visit as a sort of humor-based therapy. - (TVLine)

This might have already been covered, if it was, YAY for you - you get to read about it again! Two of the former child actors from School of Rock are all grown up and got hitched! Awwwww! - (Celebitchy)

Some of these are just… there. But there are also some very lovely theres there in this Mouret pre-fall line. Like, some very lovely theres. - (GFY)

If you want to beat the rush, get to the grocery store tomorrow to get your hands on Lay’s number one most requested flavor. - (ETNT)

I LOVE Howard!