Drake’s new cut
Eschewing the usual award-ceremonies-and-teen-movie-soundtracks promotional route, Drake previewed a new track last weekend at his barber’s wedding.
Praising amy
In what is starting to seem like a government-issued edict, Woody Allen is the latest to pay his hyperbolic respects to Amy Schumer, claiming his own comedy is “nowhere near as good”.
Action stations
Here’s a heavyweight hip-hop beef we can get behind: Ghostface Killah has told Action Bronson to “keep my name out your fucking mouth” after the rotund New York rapper was critical of the Wu-Tang man on a US sport show.
Cohen, going, gone
A Tumblr user has taken it upon themselves to improve True Detective’s opening credits, replacing its gravelly Leonard Cohen track with tunes by Jay Z, Lana Del Rey and, best of all, Perfume Genius: bit.ly/UntrueDetec
140-character flaw
Failing to notice how badly that $h*! My Dad Says sitcom flopped, Channel 4 is making a series based on the Twitter account Very British Problems, whose problems are rarely very British and never very funny.
There will be wood
Because he’s an auteur and can do whatever he wants, thank you very much, Paul Thomas Anderson is set to write and direct a live-action version of Pinocchio exec-produced by Robert Downey Jr.
Smoochy to death
Actual awful person CeeLo Green returns with new single Robin Williams, a weirdly cloying tribute to the actor (and Philip Seymour Hoffman, too): bit.ly/CeeLoRobin
