Girls5Eva, now on Netflix, had a premiere and everyone looked genuinely thrilled to be there. You can feel how much these people like making this show. (Go Fug Yourself)

 

Learn more than you ever wanted to about hashtag TradWife Life! I just wish the TradWives would post their family’s annual income, because I suspect these are all rich people. I know several stay-at-home-moms—technically TradWives!—and their houses are not spotlessly clean, their children are not always prettily behaved, and they rely a lot on takeout and pre-made meals. Even with “all day” to get domestic work done, there’s always something they didn’t tick off the list, and they feel as overworked and underappreciated as anyone. 

 

I feel like what all these TradWife videos are missing are the professional cleaning services and/or additional caretakers for the children who leave all that time for cooking everything from scratch. Besides the insidious way this trend plays into conservative politics, I think there is a HUGE missing piece revolving around income inequality, too. (Popsugar)

Eagle drama! A pair of bonded bald eagles are parents-to-be and are fighting over who gets to sit on the eggs! TradWife? More like EggLife! (Celebitchy)

Oscar shenanigans! Some awards consultants griped that the Anatomy of a Fall team bringing very good boy Messi to the Oscar nominees’ luncheon was an “unfair advantage”. Honestly? Probably, yeah. Some voters are susceptible to the stupidest sh-t, that’s why campaigning works in the first place. But Messi deserved his spotlight, he did an excellent job being a good boy who scarfed down some vomit probably. Besides, the Anatomy team spent practically nothing on their campaign, bringing Messi from France was probably their biggest expense. Worth it! (THR)

 

Today in Well This Is Grim News, Marilyn Monroe has been dead for 62 years and people can’t stop, won’t stop exploiting her. The latest is a “hyper-real” AI chatbot from a company called Soul Machines—definitely not a front for the devil’s business on Earth!—which is intended to create an “unforgettable experience for Marilyn fans”. What about an unforgettable experience for Marilyn? Please, let this lady rest, this is gross and wrong on so many levels. Marilyn is not here, and there is no one affiliated with her left to mind her estate. It should be flat out illegal for strangers to exploit someone’s estate like this.

Marilyn left a large portion of her estate to Lee Strasberg and his second wife, Paula. They were friends with Marilyn, Strasberg was her acting coach. But Lee and Paula got divorced, and Lee remarried to a woman named Anna, and when Lee died, Anna was left with everything, including Marilyn Monroe’s estate. Anna, who never knew Marilyn, is the one selling her likeness and life rights, and who auctioned off her belongings as memorabilia in the Nineties, even though Marilyn’s will expressly asked her belongings not be sold. I understand the legal chain of custody, but at the end of the day, Anna Strasberg was NOT the intended recipient of Marilyn’s estate, she never even knew Marilyn, yet she profited endlessly from constant exploitation of Marilyn’s likeness and memory. It’s gross and there should be a mechanism to stop situations like this. (Variety) 

 

Let’s end on a lighter note—Cillian Murphy reading every fire emoji aloud like a dad.