Michelle Yeoh got a friend-shaped trophy

Programming note: We will be dark on Monday in observance of Family Day. We’ll be back on Tuesday, February 17, with our regularly scheduled gossip.

The Berlin International Film Festival is happening, and Michelle Yeoh was honored with an honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. The statue is very cute! It is very friend-shaped! And also deserved, Yeoh’s career has spanned decades, continents, languages, genres, and now in her 60s, she’s at the height of her popularity.

But because it’s f-cking inescapable, she was asked about the political situation in the US, where she is not from and does not live, only sometimes works, and she declined to answer, saying, “I don’t think I am in the position to really talk about the political situation in the U.S., and also I cannot presume to say I understand how it is. So, best not to talk about something I don’t know about.” 

People are always like, celebrities should shut up about politics, but then when they do, people are also like, why aren’t they saying anything? I will say, I am not looking to Michelle Yeoh for political understanding. Part of the reason celebrities talk so much sh-t is because they are constantly asked to comment on situations/subjects over which they have no special knowledge or authority and it makes them feel smarter than they are, and we would all be better off just asking celebrities to say less, in general.

Artistically, I support Michelle Yeoh getting lifetime achievement awards from bodies like the Berlin International Film Festival. She’s done everything, working her way up from Hong Kong action movies to Oscar-winning performances (in a movie heavily influenced by her Hong Kong work, because everything comes full circle eventually). She has a stunning jewelry collection, she minds her business, Michelle Yeoh is goals. I have twenty years to attain at least one cool-ass piece of jewelry and a dream home in Switzerland. Gotta get on that.

What else happened today…

Margot Robbie did an AD Open Door for Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights. The artistic design of this fake house is incredible. The hand fireplace?! I want it! I do not want the flesh-colored bedroom, however. Edgar Linton seems normal until you see that he built his wife a flesh prison. Everyone in Wuthering Heights is unwell. (Popsugar)

Celebrities at the CDGA awards. Not unlike Zendaya before her, Teyana Taylor somehow makes a plastic/molded bodice look good. Kate Hudson, however, looks like Andie Anderson trying to jettison a guy in 10 days or less (uncomplimentary). (Go Fug Yourself)

Bunny Bowl drama! Is Jennifer Lopez mad that she wasn’t invited to be part of Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Or should she be mad that it didn’t even occur to me that she WOULD be there? Which is worse, really? (Celebitchy)

In today’s feel-good news, which we need,

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