Last week, the Daily Mail ran a very interesting story about how Prince Charles is trying to act more like a king these days. The story had nothing to do with the Queen exactly, but with Charles’ long-held beliefs in the power of multi-faith societies. You see, Charles is tight with the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama was in the UK for nine days for a tour, and the one-time close friends didn’t even see each other. Sources told the Mail that Charles didn’t meet with his friend on purpose – Charles is trying not to do anything to offend Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the president’s big state visit to the UK later this month. Charles has a tricky history with Chinese leaders and he usually boycotts or simply isn’t invited to dinners or events with previous Chinese presidents. The Daily Mail says Charles is trying to show off his diplomatic skills this time around and he’ll be at Buckingham Palace for the Chinese delegation’s arrival and the arrival lunch.
Kaiser covered the embarrassing Sony Hack news for much of the past week. This scandal isn’t even close to finished, and it’s making for some very revealing gossip. Many new details have surfaced about Jennifer Lawrence in leaked emails. To summarize: (1) Her email handle (as Lorde recently hinted) contains the word “peanutbutt”; (2) JLaw and Amy Adams were compensated less than Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle; (3) Makers of the Cleopatra biopic considered replacing Angelina Jolie with JLaw. What?
The first detail isn’t surprising. The second is maddening because (as these emails freely admit) JLaw was the biggest name in the Hustle cast. Jennifer was paid less than her male co-stars because she’s a woman. The third detail confuses me. Can you see JLaw playing Cleopatra? Let’s jump into this cluster:
Email correspondences from the Sony hack reveal that Jennifer Lawrence was compensated less than her male co-stars, compounding the studio’s gender pay gap problems.
One of the most prominent A-list presences in the emails ripped from Sony’s servers by the hacking collective Guardians of Peace is none other than Jennifer Lawrence (who is, sadly, no stranger to hacking herself).
Lawrence and her fabulous email handle (peanutbutt) make several cameos in the leak, including numerous pleasant exchanges with Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, over her dazzling turn in American Hustle, which was co-financed by Sony arm Columbia Pictures. There’s also an interesting email exchange between Pascal and Brian Helgeland, screenwriter of the planned Cleopatra biopic, with Pascal suggesting that Helgeland dump Angelina Jolie in favor of Lawrence–an idea Helgeland says he’s given some thought to.
[T]he most troubling reveal concerning Lawrence is in regard to her financial compensation with hacked emails revealing that the Hunger Games star was compensated less than her male co-stars on American Hustle.
In an email dated December 5, 2013, Andrew Gumpert, President of Business Affairs and Administration for Columbia Pictures, wrote to Pascal and Doug Belgrad, President of SPE Motion Picture Group, about the “points”–or back-end compensation–that each actor was to receive on Hustle. (“Megan” is Megan Ellison, head of Annapurna Pictures, which co-financed Hustle.)
“Got a steve warren/gretchen rush call that it’s unfair the male actors get 9% in the pool and jennifer is only at 7pts,” the email reads. “You may recall Jennifer was at 5 (amy was and is at 7) and WE anted in 2 extra points for Jennifer to get her up to 7. If anyone needs to top jennifer up it’s megan. BUT I think amy and Jennifer are tied so upping JL, ups AA.”
Gumpert added, “The current talent deals are: O’Russell: 9%; Cooper: 9%; Bale: 9%; Renner: 9%; Lawrence: 7%; Adams: 7%.”
Pascal’s email response to the news of Lawrence making less than her male colleagues–despite the fact that she’s far and away the biggest star of the picture, since Hustle was green-lit after The Hunger Games–was: “there is truth here.”
The Beast goes on to reveal how the gender disparity of these A-lister salaries is reflective of Sony staffers in general. One example: the two co-presidents (one male, one female) of production at Columbia Pictures do the same exact job. The man rakes in $2.4 million salary; the female draws $1.5 million in comparison. And so on down the corporate ladder.
There’s one last JLaw detail (so far) from the Sony hack. Amy Pascal and director/producer Ivan Reitman sent several back and forth emails about casting the all-female Ghostbusters III. Jennifer’s name popped up on the list, along with Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, and Lizzy Caplan. Oh, rly?
–Jennifer Lawrence was adorable on Fallon last night, calling him out for leaving her hanging with Jennifer Lopez before playing “Box of Lies.”
-This is nuts: an unidentified man was dragged away by security after crashing the Cannes red carpet and hiding under actress America Ferrera’s dress. I love how Cate Blanchett jumped into protector/comforter mode, while Kit Harrington just stood there.
-I love Blake Lively’s hair in Cannes. At least something’s going well there. Her hubby’s attempt to mount a comeback certainly isn’t.
–Anna Kendrick says she took Aubrey Plaza with her to be “bad cop” when she bought a car.
–Prince Harry sent his very first tweet ever. Surprisingly, it wasn’t to weigh in on Jay Z and Solange‘s elevator fight.
–Helena Bonham Carter says she once drunkenly asked Prince William to be her child’s godfather. “He wisely said no.”
–Tom Hardy is going to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s adaptation of True American. I’m anticipating a lot of drinking while yelling out the names of presidents.
-I don’t watch Grey’s Anatomy anymore, but the general consensus is that Sandra Oh deserved a better sendoff.
-Scandal’s Columbus Short pleaded not guilty to the felony charge from his alleged restaurant brawl. What a charmer.
-The guy from Chuck and Sesame Street want you to get off Facebook and go outside.
-Is Ashley Benson even old enough to remember Baywatch?!
–Kanye West says Kim Kardashianis his muse: “I consult her on elegance and what I wear.”
-Meanwhile, despite all those rumours about Paris and Versailles, Kimye are actually getting married in Florence.
-I’m glad AMC picked up Chris Hardwick‘s celebrity bowling show. The YouTube videos with the casts of Mad Men and Breaking Bad are hilarious.
–Barbara Walters‘ last day on The View featured surprise visits from Hillary Clinton and Oprah.
-The first cast photo for This Is Where I Leave You makes me want to re-read the book immediately
-Even though they made him a star, Viggo Mortenson is quick to criticize the “senseless” scripts for End of Violence and The Lord of the Rings.
–Jon Hamm and Naomi Watts posed in dramatic photos for Bulgari’s Save the Children campaign.
-Speaking of Hamm, I really liked Million Dollar Arm. It’s schmaltzy and predictable but sweet. Critics are more into Godzilla this weekend, though.
–Johnny Depp as a balding man with blond hair is terrifying (more so that usual).
-Matthew McConaughey takes The McConaissance to space in the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s shrouded-in-secrecy new movie, Interstellar.
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Pregnant Dutch stunner Doutzen Kroes, who’s expecting a girl, recently opened up about how she wouldn’t want her daughter to follow her modeling footsteps:
“Instead of saying, ‘You’re so beautiful,’ I’ll say, ‘You’re smart,’ so she’ll have different aspirations in life than beauty and modeling. Though I love my job, I’m not changing the world. I’d love for her to study and to have different aspirations. We need to teach girls they can become presidents, and it’s not about beauty all the time.”
… says Doutzen in Vogue.
Many more pictures of her next!
(…) Read the rest of Doutzen Kroes: “We need to teach girls they can become presidents, it’s not about beauty all the time” (1 words)
Malin Akerman, Maria Shriver celebrate “Half the Sky Movement: The Game”
Pregnant actress Malin Akerman poses with Maria Shriver at an intimate pre-launch event in Los Angeles in celebration of Half the Sky Movement: The Game, which launches on March 4th. Half the Sky Movement: The Game is a game-based adventure that aims to reach mainstream audiences to raise awareness and donations to empower women and girls around the world.
Shriver co-hosted the event and gave remarks alongside Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Games for Change’s Co-Presidents Asi Burak and Michelle Byrd, Kate Grant of the Tides Foundation, and Erin Ganju of Room to Read.
Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Games for Change
