While You Were Sleeping, Wimbledon Started (Mmm, Strawberries)

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs sang a song at the top of the Empire State Building

Well, to be specific, it’s the video for their Mosquito album cut ‘Despair’, shot by Patrick Daughters (the guy behind the memorable Karen O tearjerker ‘Maps’). Watch Karen O emote painfully! Watch the sun rise over Manhattan! Looking at this video makes us cold, and hungry for an everything bagel.

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Paul Giamatti joined the cast of Downton Abbey

Fans of anxious, sleepy-eyed cult actors and upstairs-downstairs period dramas should pour themselves a celebratory Pimm’s cup: it’s been confirmed that Paul Giamatti will be dropping by Downton Abbey for the show’s fourth season.

“Giamatti will play Harold Levinson, the playboy brother of Countess Cora (Elizabeth McGovern),” reported Variety, but all anyone could hear was “I am not drinking any f**king devonshire tea!”

When Giamatti goes period, we all win:

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Maybe don’t take your mum to see Adore when it hits cinemas

Here’s the trailer for Adore, a fun movie in which a couple of middle-aged friends (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) fall in love with each other’s sons. Wait, what? The film, which was directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Avant Chanel) and shot around Sydney’s beaches, also features local stars Ben Mendelsohn and Xavier Samuel. And mum-and-son make-outs (did we mention that?). The movie opens locally in September.

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Wimbledon started overnight and it already sucks

First, the only exciting tennis player around these days (expert tennis troll!), Gael Monfils, pulled out of the tournament last week, and now this: Rafa Nadal, the lovable Spaniard who just won his 900th (ed note: 8th) French Open title a couple of weeks ago, was a surprise First Round straight sets loser to some Belgian kid named Steve Darcis (Steve!). Then, local guy Lleyton Hewitt upset Swiss 11th-seed Stanislas Wawrinka, which just makes it worse. Also, this happened to women’s favourite Victoria Azarenka, which I guess is sad, but she won anyway so now we’re all allowed to laugh:

In better news, the strawberries are “looking good“, say experts. Phew!