People March 21, 2022

‘Older women … you underestimate. We are a huge audience to see men go out there and bash each other in the heads’—SALLY FIELD, on becoming a football fan during the pandemic, to Extra ‘I wanted to be able to have my own feelings about my changing body without other people also telling me how they saw me’—SCARLETT JOHANSSON, on why she kept her pregnancies private, to Vanity Fair ‘I couldn’t do the outfit.… In red and green I look like one of Santa’s elves’—BILL MURRAY, on almost being cast as Robin in a never-made Batman movie in the ’80s, to Yahoo Entertainment ‘They make up songs that just blow me away, and they’re invariably about breakfast’—LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, on his sons Sebastian, 7, and Frankie, 4, following in his…

1 Jennifer Hudson Lands a Talk Show The American Idol and Dreamgirls alum will host The Jennifer Hudson Show on Fox this fall. “People from around the world have been a part of my journey from the beginning—20 years ago—and I’m so ready to join their journey,” she said. 2 Michael Douglas Will Play Benjamin Franklin The Oscar winner will portray the Founding Father in an Apple TV+ limited series all about the Benjamin (and his role in the American Revolution). 3 A Wheel of Fortune fail befuddles viewers Contestants went viral when they couldn’t nail down the phrase “another feather in your cap”—instead guessing “hat,” “lap” and “map” for the final word. 4 Natty Light Offers Free Beer to Mullet Wearers To celebrate Natural Light’s 45th anniversary, the…

I always have my eye out for coincidences, things that happen to me right when I need them to happen. And this one was a doozy. On Friday, March 4, after wrapping up my first full week in this new role leading People, I attended the memorial service for the magazine’s founder, Richard B. Stolley. Dick, the editor of this magazine until 1982, died June 16, 2021, at age 92. The evening gathered dozens of writers, reporters, editors and photographers who had worked for the brand and featured powerful stories about Dick as a journalist—he secured the Zapruder film of Kennedy’s assassination while working at Life magazine—visionary, mentor, friend and father. For me, the most personally stirring words of the night came from his lifelong friend and one of People’s…

…AT PARIS FASHION WEEK! RIHANNA’S SENSATIONAL MATERNITY STYLE The star, who is expecting her first child with rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky, turned the streets of Paris into her own personal runway with a parade of high-fashion looks. The mic drop: this Dior leather jacket and fishnet dress over a Savage X Fenty lingerie set, plus Amina Muaddi boots and piles of jewels at the Dior show on March 1. MOTHER-DAUGHTER MOMENT It was just a regular day at the office for Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber, who both walked in the Feb. 28 Off-White show, which honored the brand’s late founder Virgil Abloh. “You changed the world,” Gerber wrote in a tribute to the designer. FRONT-ROW REUNION On March 7 Crazy, Stupid, Love costars Emma Stone and Julianne Moore lit up…

When Zoë Kravitz stepped out for the premiere of The Batman, the new DC Comics film in which she stars as Catwoman, in New York City on March 1, two of her biggest fans were on hand: her boyfriend Channing Tatum and stepdad, Jason Momoa. The day prior, Tatum and Momoa—who announced his split from Kravitz’s mom, Lisa Bonet, in January after four years of marriage but remains close to Zoë—had flown in together from L.A. on a private jet to be there on Kravitz’s big day. “Channing has been telling friends how proud he is of Zoë for her role in The Batman movie,” says a source. “He is a huge fan of her acting.” Tatum, 41, and Kravitz, 33, first sparked romance buzz in January 2021, when the Big…

Has Kanye West gone too far this time? The rapper received major backlash over the new music video for his song “Eazy,” in which a claymation lookalike of Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend Pete Davidson is kidnapped and buried alive. “Kim is furious over the video,” an insider says of Kardashian, 41, who filed for divorce from West, 44, in February 2021 after seven years of marriage and has been dating Saturday Night Live star Davidson, 28, since October. “She thinks it’s way too violent, and she is really upset with Kanye that he would do this.” In recent months West has made several disparaging comments about Davidson on social media, prompting his fans to harass the comedian online. On March 6 West seemingly defended the video on Instagram, writing, “Art…