Dear Gossips,
Mary Poppins Returns, starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Meryl Streep, opens December 19 and is expected to be a holiday season blockbuster with awards potential. I’ve never seen the original. I mean, I know about Mary Poppins because I live in the world and am familiar with most of the music, but I have no strong connection to the Julie Andrews version so my attitude about this new one has been more like, yeah, I’ll see it out of obligation but I’m not really that excited. Read Full Intro
What Else?
Oh hey there, it’s Kathleen, the youngest member of the LG team. Have I mentioned that yet today? It’s a travel day for Lainey so you’ve got me for What Else. Quick programming note: We’re dark on Monday for Remembrance Day in Canada and Veterans Day the US. We’ll be back to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. Full Story
Celebrity Social Media, November 9, 2018
No recount required. Thanks to all the hard working community members of Flavortown. It was a delicious campaign and we are rollin out for another 4 years. pic.twitter.com/YkNVARsZKn — Guy Fieri (@GuyFieri) November 7, 2018 Full Story
Another Jungle Book
Jon Favreau made a hybrid live-action/animated Jungle Book that was really quite good, so much so it bagged him the job of directing the new Lion King, and also good enough that it threw Andy Serkis’s competing project into considerable shade. Back then Serkis’s project was called Jungle Book: Origins—and yes, it’s supposed to be a dark and gritty Jungle Book, as indicated by “Origins”—and it was supposed to be Serkis’s directorial debut (that honor ultimately went to Breathe). Full Story
Chris Pine in Outlaw King
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Outlaw King, aka the movie with the Pine nuts, is a spiritual sequel to Braveheart, overlapping with the end of that movie to tell the story of Robert the Bruce, the man who finished the job and defeated the English, creating a sovereign kingdom of Scotland. Chris Pine Full Story
THR’s next gen
Every year, The Hollywood Reporter releases their “Next Gen” list – the actors under 35 that make up Hollywood’s next generation. This issue always makes me happy. In 2016, the issue featuring Zendaya on its cover Full Story
Noah Centineo’s damage control
Lainey’s nickname for Noah Centineo is Peter Noah. I used to call him Peter Noah Kavinsky Centineo. The lines were blurred between Peter Kavinsky, our beloved character from To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Noah Centineo, “thirst architect Full Story
Zoë & Karl’s engagement carpet
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This is not the first time Zoë Kravitz and Karl Glusman have walked a red carpet together. I think it’s been a while since we’ve seen them together on a carpet but, again, it’s not new. What’s new is that this is the first carpet they’ve been on together since she revealed that they are engaged Full Story
Gabrielle Union’s lovely day
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Yesterday afternoon, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade announced on Instagram that they had welcomed a baby daughter via surrogate. Full Story
The Royal Baby advantage
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Prince William and Catherine were at The Tusk Conservation Awards last night. Also last night, the Prince Charles 70th birthday documentary on the BBC. With a cameo that everyone’s talking about. But first…let’s recap. As we’ve been analysing over the last few weeks, during Prince Charles’s media month Full Story
Harry & Meghan’s tiara drama
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A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that Prince William and Prince Harry are considering creating “separate courts”. For years now, William, Kate, and Harry have shared a court at Kensington Palace. Full Story
