This morning, Lainey posted about Angelina Jolie and it reminded me that Salma Hayek posted a birthday wish to her (a week late). Angelina, as we know, doesn’t live on social media and her activism is still on-the-ground volunteering, donations, and op-ed in newspapers. Do you think that will ever change? Leonardo DiCaprio’s Instagram is under his foundation’s name and 99% of the content is related to that. Would there be any benefit for her to have that reach, or is it just noise that will distract from her causes? If you look at Leo’s posts (obviously done by an assistant), comments are mostly bots and fan sites, which is a big Instagram problem, so I don’t know how much awareness it would genuinely raise for her causes. Right now, when she speaks, everyone is interested because it’s so rare.

 

Chrissy Teigen has retired her breast implants; the card from Luna says “have fun pulling your boobs out.” 

Iggy Azalea pulled a Drake and has a baby boy no one knew about (unlike Drake, she got to tell us herself). She didn’t post on social media (or deleted the posts) between December 2019 and May 9, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything because there are so many different ways to have a baby. 

 

Serena Williams is having as much fun, if not more, playing Belle with Alexis. This is what quarantine is doing to some of us: Disney Stockholm Syndrome.

Last night Aaron Paul was trending on Twitter for his, um, passionate performance in the “I Take Responsibility” video. Show me the moonnnnneeyyyyyyy.

Journalist Kate Authur at Variety had a Zoom interview with the cast of Succession and broke down key scenes from the season. I’ve only been able to watch a short clip and you know what’s great? They all love Geri as much as we do. I can’t believe season three hasn’t even started filming. This makes me morose. 

 

There have been a few women who have stepped away from their companies in the last few days, notably Aubrey Gelman (The Wing), Leandra Medine (Man Repeller) and Christene Barberich of Refinery 29. These are businesses they founded or co-founded and resignations (whether permanent or temporary breaks) are from repeated calls from staffers and contractors about cultural problems at the company, ranging from tokenism to unequal pay for BIPOC to microaggression. These changes are necessary and I would like to see it extend beyond this to money men – where are resignations at Goldman Sachs, at VC companies in Silicon Valley and banks and hedge funds? There is also a persistent rumour that the biggest name of them all (in media) will step down today. I don’t know if I quite believe it. I think, like Logan Roy, she wouldn’t leave unless ousted with force.