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The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:

One starWarning! Boulevard wrote this review before eating breakfast. We strongly recommend that you don’t do so.

Continuing her publicity tour for the new “X-Men: Apocalypse,” Lawrence hit the Tonight Show last night, where she, fellow-guest John Oliver and host Jimmy Fallon played True Confessions. In that game, they took turns confessing two things — one true, one false — then competed to separate truth from fiction. Take it away, CDA News:

As Lawrence was playing, she kept swiping at her nose. A few swipes later, Fallon pointed out something was on her nose. Again, Lawrence swiped. “Was it a booger?” she asked. “Yes,” Fallon said. Then she proceeded to admit she’d felt the booger creeping up, but thought no way, “we’re on TV, there’s no way a booger can exist.”

“You totally boogered out!” Fallon said, laughing hysterically.

Boulevard isn’t laughing hysterically. We’d give CDA zero stars if that were possible. So, they get one.

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:

Three starsLawrence was trashing her Beverly Hills house — figuratively, at any rate — not long after she snapped it up for $8.2 million in October 2014. The 5,500-square-foot bachelorette pad’s provenance was apparently problematical. “It’s Ellen [DeGeneres]’s old house,” Lawrence said, according to Pop Sugar. “It was Jessica Simpson‘s old house. It’s like the neighborhood whore. I was outside and some girl was like, ‘I grew up in this house.’ Beat it, kid. Everybody’s lived in this house.”

Now, pushing two years later, that kid would have plenty of company on the street outside, according to this just-published MSN story:

“There are 10 [paparazzi] sleeping outside my house, and I see them every morning and it’s not lovely,” 25-year-old Lawrence says. “I’ve talked about it a lot with other actors who have the same problems, but we don’t really like to complain about it because if we do people go, ‘Shut up, millionaires,’ and say, ‘you’re so lucky.’ And yes, we are lucky, but I deserve the right to have control over my image. I would prefer that the only time somebody sees me is when I am in a film or in character or if I am promoting a movie.”

Curbed Los Angeles says Lawrence’s house in the guarded Hidden Valley enclave sold for $6.4 million only a year before she bought it from DeGeneres for nearly $2 million more. For those 10 men who’d love to come inside to snap pictures, Curbed offers this inside tour — including the entrance, with the garage gate open:

Jennifer Lawrence house

For not being all judge-y about Lawrence’s poor-me travails, Boulevard gives MSN three stars!

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

cover-03-eg00vfx“I love the fans and I love the character. But then you realize how important your year is, like how important three months out of your year is — I don’t know. I shouldn’t be that honest.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, speaking to Entertainment Weekly about whether the Louisville native will appear in another “X-Men” film. The next installment in the franchise, “X-Men: Apocalypse,” opens domestically on Thursday. Lawrence appears on the magazine’s cover, above. Watch the trailer.

Latest Headlines

How Amazon keeps 90,000 employees from unionizing; GE CEO lists $5.5M home for sale
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GE CEO Immelt’s $5.5 million Connecticut house.

A news summary focused on big employers; updated 4:26 p.m.

AMAZON has successfully blocked unions from organizing its 90,000 workers at giant warehouses, including in Shepherdsville and Jeffersonville, where it has a combined 6,000 employees; here’s how (New York Times). Also, the company is reportedly rolling out new lines of private-label house brands that will only be available to members of its $99-a-year Prime program; they could hit retailer’s site by the end of this month or early in June (Wall Street Journal).

KINDRED‘s business mix has changed significantly since last year’s $1.8 billion purchase of Gentiva Health Services. Now the Kindred At Home division, it was 32% of overall revenue during the 12 months ended in March, the company told analysts at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch health care conference  (Business First); .pdf of Kindred’s presentation. Kindred’s shares closed today at $12.14, little changed.

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt has listed his 10,458 square-foot home for sale in exclusive New Canaan, Conn., for $5.5 million (Boulevard thinks that’s a steal!) (Realtor). Meanwhile, Immelt’s reportedly bought a triplex near the top-drawer Boston Public Garden that was listed for $8 million; GE’s moving its headquarters to Boston (Boston Business First).

KFC: In Ohio, a man who ordered a sandwich without pickles Saturday reportedly returned to the restaurant angry about having pickles on his order anyway, and ended up throwing a phone into a wall (Mansfield News Journal). Also, the chain has leased 300 environmentally friendly electric scooters (The Star).

PAPA JOHN’S: Still in Ohio, a 44-year-old man was issued a summons for disorderly conduct after he yelled and cursed at employees during an argument about the number of toppings on his pizza (Mansfield News Journal, too). As if living in glamorous Miami Beach wasn’t enough, a landlord is advertising an apartment with an extra amenity: a Papa John’s is right next door (Craigslist).

FORD: With the month of June about two weeks away, it looks like the end of the road has come for the 2016 Ford Bronco rumors (Master Herald).

TEXAS ROADHOUSE is planning a new restaurant in Plymouth, Mass (Plymouth).

In other news,  U.S. stocks were soaring at mid-afternoon, with the S&P 500 index up 1% at 2,069, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 1.2% higher at 17,737 (Google Finance). Nearly all stocks in Boulevard’s portfolio of big local employers were higher as well.

Ocean's 13Finally, Louisville native and Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence may star opposite Sandra Bullock in an all-female remake of the “Ocean’s 11” franchise; the last sequel was “Ocean’s 13.” (Tracking Board).

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:

Three starsFans will remember that Harpers Bazaar magazine story last month, where Lawrence, 25, described in graphic detail why she can’t stay up late partying. Now, we have another embarrassing example of why she was so, so right!

During her “X-Men: Apocalypse” promotion tour in the UK, Lawrence recalled a night out with British comedian Jack Whitehall, when the two espied “Star Wars” actor Harrison Ford and director JJ Abrams. She mistakenly thought they knew who she was, an assumption she usually doesn’t make. The Belfast Telegraph picks up the tale from there.

“I went up to them and started dancing like an idiot,” Lawrence said, “and the whole table just went quiet and stared at me. I realised while I am dancing that they had absolutely no idea who I was, so I just turned around and walked back to Jack, dying of embarrassment.”

Boulevard gives the Telegraph three stars for being gentle on Lawrence!