Dear Gossips,
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Happy Harvest Moon! Today is one of the most important days on the lunar calendar, one of the major holidays in Chinese culture. Some of us call it Chinese Thanksgiving. This is the time of year when we pass around moon cakes. Read Full Intro
What Else?
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Sean Penn wrote a new book – have you heard about this? Remember that Bob Honey something something book he wrote a few years? It was …not a good book. People read it and they were like, this is sh-t. Maybe the people were wrong? Because they agreed to publish a sequel. And Sean’s been saying that the critics only fueled him to write more. Full Story
Duana Names: Now All Bets Are Off
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We are due with our fifth baby! Soon! (gender unknown) And it is definitely tougher to pick this time around. We have twins: Jack and James, and singleton daughters, MacKenna and Grace. The middle names for the kids are (all but one) family names (Richard, Patrick, Rosemary, Caroline) and we will keep that going. Full Story
Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy: the child actor who became a movie star
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Shia LaBeouf wrote Honey Boy based on his own childhood as a young star, and plays his own father, here renamed “James”. The film is directed by Alma Har’el, making her feature film debut. Two things about Honey Boy are true: Shia LaBeouf is probably being too hard on himself, and Alma Har’el could be less up his ass about it. Full Story
Outfit of the Week: Jennifer Lopez
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Who else would it be? Hustlers opens today – are you seeing it? Tonight? This weekend? As I mentioned earlier this week in my post about how Jennifer Lopez should be an Oscar contender Full Story
Lucy in the Sky: a diaper-free disorienting astronaut love triangle
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The new Natalie Portman film Lucy in the Sky is not the simmering astronaut love triangle movie you're probably expecting to see. Instead, it's a disorienting look at life after space, raising a question of how "rocket lag" can permanently alter your desires and relationships with your "earth families. Full Story
TIFF Review: Dolemite Is My Name
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Eddie Murphy returns to acting after a three year hiatus with Dolemite Is My Name, a biopic of Dolemite creator Rudy Ray Moore. Like every other biopic I’ve seen at TIFF this year, Dolemite is standard, run-of-the-mill biographical stuff, taking no real risks and doing nothing particularly inventive with the material. Full Story
Celebrity Social Media, September 13, 2019
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Millie Bobby Brown is getting flack for a face washing tutorial gone awry (apparently she was, gasp, faking it. On the internet of all places!). She has her own line, so I consider this a commercial. In skin care commercials, women stand at the sink and fill their cupped hands with water and then throw what looks like a bucket’s worth into their faces with complete abandon. Full Story
SNL hired Milkshake Duck
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As SNL heads into season 45, there are some casting changes. We know Leslie Jones is leaving, and yesterday three new cast members were announced: Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis, and Bowen Yang, who has been on SNL’s writing staff and was recently featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s comedy issue Full Story
Sasha Finds: The Ultimate Face Mask
I have been on the hunt for an amazing night mask for a while now which, I have to say, is off brand for me because I hate having sh-t on me when I’m sleeping – a lip mask can legit throw me off my sleep game. So I was looking for something rich but not heavy. When I tested out LXMI’s Pure Nilotica Melt Full Story
Why Prince Andrew got into a fight
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Late last year, the UK tabloids feasted on a report about Prince Harry telling palace staffers “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets”, supposedly when they were planning their wedding. It was days and days, if not weeks, of this on the front pages. Earlier this week, it was reported that Prince Andrew got into a fight with a staff member at Buckingham Palace Full Story
