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Apr 30 2013 09:00 AM ET

'Divergent' fun: Which faction would Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence and more celebs be placed in?

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Divergent superfans, this one is for you. At the beginning of setting up this dystopian adventure, readers learn that all the people living in this world are sorted into five different factions when they come of age. An aptitude test helps place them, but the final decision is theirs (sounds wonderfully familiar, right?). While Beatrice, Caleb and all the rest had a tough decision to make, we got to thinking about where some Hollywood celebs would find themselves if they suddenly woke up in this world. Here are our best guesses for Jennifer Lawrence (Honest!), Lady Gaga (Brave!) and more.

Abnegation (the Selfless)

Angelina Jolie: Sure, she’s got her detractors, but she’s still one of Hollwood’s most famous do-gooders. The actress has traveled to Cambodia, Sierra Leone and many, many other places to speak and help with her main cause: refugees. She’s even a Goodwill Ambassador who has none other than Hillary Clinton as an admirer. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 18 2013 02:44 PM ET

Jennifer Lawrence headlines TIME 100 list

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TIME magazine prefers to be diplomatic and doesn’t rank its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, which was announced today. But let’s be frank: in the world of entertainment, Jennifer Lawrence is nonpareil. The 22-year-old Oscar winner and star of the Hunger Games blockbuster franchise was lauded by none other than Jodie Foster, her director from The Beaver and one of the few actresses to attain Lawrence’s critical and popular success — and more importantly, know how to translate it into real influence.

“Sure, this girl can act. But, man, this girl can also just be,” Foster wrote, describing seeing early cuts of Lawrence’s Oscar-nominated performance in Winter’s Bone. “All of those painful secrets in her face, the feeling that there’s some terrible past that’s left impossibly angled bone and weariness in its wake. She’s worn from the pain of living — something none of her characters would ever have the energy to articulate. It’s just part of her, like skin and muscle. The good news is that Jen, her good-humored, ballsy, free-spirited alter ego with the husky voice and a propensity for junk food … Jen, the spritely tomboy from Kentucky — that Jen’s got it together. A hoot. A gem. A gem with a killer stare.”

Click below for a few of the other entertainment figures who made TIME’s list, with the tributes penned by admiring celebrities. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 15 2013 12:30 AM ET

MTV Movie Awards: Rebel Wilson's most outrageous jokes

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MTV Movie Awards host Rebel Wilson is known for a particularly uncomfortable brand of comedy. Witness: Pitch Perfect‘s Fat Amy, who told the Barden Bellas she adopted the moniker “so skinny bitches like you don’t do it behind my back.” Considering the fact that at least one promo for tonight’s show featured a punchline in which Wilson found her in a compromising position regarding Channing Tatum’s junk, it seemed clear that the Aussie hostess wouldn’t spare the salacious.

To her credit, Wilson didn’t go the safe route. Most of her jokes fell on the absurdist side of the comedy spectrum rather than the conventional, Poconos-style yuks that hosts generally adopt for these occasions. (The one exception, in her intro of Kerry Washington: “Our next presenter is one of the few actresses that plays strong black women more than Tyler Perry.”) Whether her one-liners landed or not, they certainly delivered an across-the-board jaw-drop factor.

Below, we run down Wilson’s most obscene, sometimes cringe-worthy, lines from the 2013 ceremony. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2013 03:40 PM ET

'Girls': How are we supposed to feel about Adam?

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Adam in the Girls pilot to a just-fired Hannah: “You should never be anyone’s f—ing slave, except mine.”
Adam in the Girls season 2 finale when a distraught Hannah whimpers ‘You’re here’: “I was always here.”

In a show called Girls, last night’s episode seemed to have a lot to do with boys. Marnie  is now back with Charlie and there’s this uncomfortable feeling that she believes this solves everything — including the fact that she saw her career prospects go to shambles this season. Shoshanna breaks up with the guy she lost her virginity to — at least this feels like growth. And Adam and Hannah… well, I’m not sure. What was with that rom-com ending? Were we supposed to be left satisfied or weary? And how are we supposed to feel about Adam? Is he violent, misunderstood, kind, cruel, or some mixture of all of these. Let’s dive in. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 15 2013 02:10 PM ET

Is 'Girls' still a comedy?

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January 13 was a big day for Lena Dunham. The second season of Girls premiered on HBO at 9 p.m. ET that evening; around 10:30 the very same night, Dunham’s show was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical.

Dunham — already a winner that night for Best Actress in a TV Comedy — accepted the award with an exuberant yelp, urging her co-stars and creative team to get “super close” to the microphone. Her heartfelt acceptance speech ended with Dunham thanking Chad Lowe, a joking reference to Hilary Swank’s famous omission at the 2000 Oscars. It was frank, funny, and a little bit awkward — just what someone who loved Girls‘s first season would expect from the show’s visionary.

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Mar 14 2013 06:41 PM ET

Lena Dunham keeps her clothes on for 'Playboy' interview

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Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old multihyphenate behind HBO’s Golden Globe-winning Girls, sat down for an informative Q&A with Playboy — and regardless of how you feel about her work, it’s a pretty entertaining read. From the piece, you’ll learn that Dunham always carries a metal spoon in her purse, that she first learned what sex was when she was five years old, and that the two deadly sins she’s most guilty of are “gluttony and sloth.” Other fun facts gleaned from the interview:

Booth Jonathan’s memorably aggressive pick-up line (“I want you to know, the first time I f—- you I might scare you a little”) was inspired by a real-life incident
“Someone once said something like that to me,” Dunham recalled, “with the immediate caveat ‘I, uh, learned that from my friend who works at Vice magazine.’”

She’s got big ideas for how to change the world
“We’d have a better world if everyone had someone they could pay for talk therapy.”

She appreciates being average-looking
Asked what she’d do if she woke up in a lingerie model’s body, Dunham says she’d simply be confused before musing, “Not being the babest person in the world creates a nice barrier. The people who talk to you are the people who are interested in you. It must be a big burden in some ways to look that way and be in public.” That said, of course, “I probably would want to see if I could get free food at restaurants.”

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Feb 27 2013 03:10 PM ET

Watch 'Lena Dunham' audition for 'Zero Dark Thirty' -- VIDEO

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Comedian Chelsea Davison has really perfected her Lena Dunham impression for this hilarious spoof.

In the sketch, ‘Dunham’ is attempting to audition for the role of Maya in Zero Dark Thirty.

Her best line? “You know, it makes me feel like an a–hole when I have to threaten to torture you every day.”

Watch the video here (NSFW language, but no nudity… just hints at an explicit resumé):

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Feb 22 2013 03:35 PM ET

Lena Dunham responds to Lisa Lampanelli controversy on Twitter

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One problem with all this “voice of a generation” talk? You may find yourself in controversies you weren’t even directly involved in. That’s what happened to Lena Dunham this week when comedian Lisa Lampanelli posted a photo on twitter of herself with Dunham, along with the caption, “Me with my n—a ‪@LenaDunham of ‪@HBOGirls — I love this beyotch!!” Naturally, this made a lot of people extremely uncomfortable.

Up until this point, Dunham – who again, was only in a photo with Lampanelli – was silent about the n-word controversy. But today, after some tweets from writer Shayla Pierce (who wrote about the incident), Dunham finally gave a statement – in 140 character increments, of course. (A rep for Dunham did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comments about the tweets.)

The entire social media exchange is below: READ FULL STORY »

Feb 20 2013 01:29 PM ET

Lisa Lampanelli defends calling Lena Dunham the n-word: 'It means friend'

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Finally, there’s a racially-charged controversy surrounding Lena Dunham that has nothing to do with the racial politics of Girls — or even Dunham herself, really.

Insult comic Lisa Lampanelli has never shied away from using controversial language in her standup act. But that didn’t stopped legions of Twitter users from being offended when Lampanelli tweeted a photo of herself with Dunham on Monday, adding a caption that reads, “Me with my n—a ‪@LenaDunham of ‪@HBOGirls — I love this beyotch!!” Here’s the tweet; obviously, there’s sensitive language ahead:

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Feb 7 2013 02:43 PM ET

Lena Dunham did go all the way with Obama on the ballot after all...

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President Obama carried New York by 27 percentage points, but that doesn’t mean that every vote in the Empire State didn’t count — especially if you are the “voice of a generation” and made a campaign plea for first-time voters to go all the way with Obama at the ballot box. Last Wednesday, a blogger for the website Room Eight claimed that Lena Dunham had failed to vote, based on their review of New York City voter files.

Well, Dunham’s not having any of it. She popped up on Twitter this afternoon to correct the rumor, explaining that she actually flew back to New York to cast her vote at her old polling place rather than deal with the frustrating absentee ballot system:

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