Dear Gossips,
Mariah Carey is Christmas. Mariah Carey is Christmas. I wrote that twice because the first is a statement, a fact. And the second is the title of a new …film?... based on the above fact about the making of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, the most successful Christmas song of our generation, an official Christmas classic. Read Full Intro
What Else?
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This is SO sad. And it speaks to the power that someone can have over you, how abusive it can be, how hard it is to escape from it, and how emotional abuse is just as devastating as physical abuse. Full Story
Can Parasite break the Korean Oscar curse?
Parasite is one of the best films of the year, and it’s already landing on year-end lists, including earning a special award from the American Film Institute. Full Story
RuPaul in AJ and the Queen
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A new trailer for AJ and the Queen, a new Netflix series starring RuPaul was released last night. The premise of the show, according to its Netflix description: “While traveling across the country in a run-down RV, drag queen Ruby Red discovers an unlikely sidekick in AJ: a tough-talking 10-year-old stowaway. Full Story
Woody Harrleson and Justin Theroux revisit Watergate
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Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux both starred in beloved HBO dramas, True Detective season one for Harrelson, and The Leftovers for Theroux. Now, they are both returning to HBO, to star together in a limited series called The White House Plumbers, about the two men who planned the Watergate break-in, E. Full Story
Celebrity Social Media, December 5, 2019
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As we near the end of a decade, people are compiling the “best of” lists and moments. One that came up in my feed was “best Twitter moment” and someone suggested Zola. “Wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch fell out??????” It went viral – and now it’s a movie starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, directed by Janicza Bravo. Full Story
Mulan is for me
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Mulan is the #2 trending topic worldwide right now on Twitter, at least that’s what it says on my feed, right underneath #TrumpIsALaughingStock. Mulan is trending because a new trailer was released… and I love it, I love it so much. Full Story
Welcome to the Florence Pugh party, Vogue
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Vogue would like you to know that Florence Pugh is cool, but not like TOO COOL, she’s just the right amount of cool. She’s an It Girl, but she’s not an It Girl because she doesn’t trip or do cheesy late night talk show bits. Vogue will tell you all about newcomer Florence Pugh, who has been on the international cinema scene for three entire years, but they won’t mention her breakout role is Lady Macbeth, that’s just some “corset drama” she did in jolly old England. Full Story
Emma Stone is getting married
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I just want to go back a bit… Back to 2018, summertime. A few months prior, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux had announced their divorce. He reportedly was too cool for her LA life and wanted to stay punk as f-ck (what’s up Ryan Adams?) in New York, chilling at real dive bars until he opened a fake one. Full Story
Taylor Swift to open Sundance
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A few weeks ago, prior to her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance, when Taylor Swift accused Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun of refusing to allow her to perform music from her first six albums, we also found out that she’d been working on a Netflix documentary and that she was fighting to include her previous work in the film too. Full Story
Justin Timberlake’s promotional apology
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No but seriously, is this an apology? Or an advance promotional opportunity for his film, Palmer? Because it starts as an apology…and ends as a plug. Isn’t that what we all want out of an apology? For someone to say sorry and then pivot to them telling you about their new project? Well, that’s how Justin Timberlake does it. Full Story
