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Anna Kendrick's memoir tells of dating jerks and much else

Anna Kendrick's lost love "Hi, stalker, just can't leave me alone, can you?" That's not the kind of phone call you expect to get from your one and only. But that's exactly what happened to Anna Kendrick when she 20. The guy she thought she was dating didn't think of her as his girlfriend.

Anna Kendrick's lost love

"Hi, stalker, just can't leave me alone, can you?"

That's not the kind of phone call you expect to get from your one and only. But that's exactly what happened to Anna Kendrick when she 20. The guy she thought she was dating didn't think of her as his girlfriend.

Kendrick recalls her ill-fated romance with the dude, whom she calls Connor, in her memoir Scrappy Little Nobody, due Nov. 15 and excerpted in Glamour mag.

"I thought he was a musician and that we were dating," writes Kendrick. "He thought he was a screenwriter who occasionally played music and that we were 'hooking up and not labeling things because labels cause drama.' " The dude was older - all of 28 - and so cool Kendrick thought she was in heaven to be dating a guy who "was deep and artistic."

Kendrick, now a wizened 31-year-old, has a brilliant turn opposite Ben Affleck in The Accountant, which opens next Friday.

These days, she finds herself wondering, "Why on earth would I pursue someone who had no interest in me?" An age-old question.

Jay Z tells Kalief Browder's story

Renaissance man Jay Z will put the criminal justice system under a microscope in a TV docudrama about Kalief Browder that the hip-hop mogul is producing with the Weinstein Co. Set to premiere on Spike in January, the six-part Time: The Kalief Browder Story will tell of the Bronx high school student "who killed himself in 2015 after being held for three years on Rikers Island for allegedly stealing a backpack," says Variety.

The teen was held without a trial and maintained his innocence.

"Kalief Browder is a modern-day prophet; his story a failure of the judicial process," Jay Z said. The teen, he added, "lost his life because of a broken system."

The series will feature archival footage, interviews, and reenactments.

They left Kim to suffer

Kim Kardashian was left alone and defenseless by her bodyguard Sunday when she was robbed of $10 mil in jewelry.

Anonymous Source tells People bodyguard Pascal Duvier was with Kim's sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner while they partied their lives away in Paris. Source said "Kim was terrified" and she was certain the evildoers would kill her.

Ashton and Mila expecting boy

Ashton Kutcher let it slip Thursday on the Today show that the baby he and wife Mila Kunis are expecting is a boy. Kutcher said his 2-year-old daughter, Wyatt Kutcher, is totally hip to what's going on.

"She points to Mila and she's like, 'Baby brother' when she points to the belly," Kutcher said, "and then she points to dad and she goes, 'Beer.' "

Rolling Stones LP due Dec. 2

Rockin' septuagenarian Keith Richards and his Rolling Stones will release their first studio record in a decade on Dec. 2, Rolling Stone mag reports. Blue & Lonesome will feature covers of blues classics and has a guest appearance by Eric Clapton.

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