Dear Gossips,
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Moon Festival, one of the most important holidays of the lunar calendar, which is commonly observed in East Asia, and known in Chinese culture as Chinese Thanksgiving. This is why you may have seen moon cakes everywhere. Read Full Intro
Get to know Chloe Zhao
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Here’s a name you’re going to start hearing: Chloe Zhao. She’s a director and she just booked a Marvel gig, The Eternals. Things to know about Chloe Zhao: She’s Chinese, she’s 36 (joining Ryan Coogler as people who make you feel bad about your accomplishments at your age), she was in the running for the Black Widow movie, and she had a film come out this year, The Rider, that is one of those slide-under-the-radar indie releases everyone raves about at the end of the year. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, September 24, 2018
My Best Friend’s Wedding is still such a good watch and one of the movies I’d actually like to see rebooted, with Julia (not her character’s name, but she is always Julia) getting married this time. Kimmy and Michael are definitely divorced, right? I mean there was no way that marriage was going to work. Full Story
Tom Cruise at dinner
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Tom Cruise hasn’t spent a lot of time in LA the last few years. He’s in London a lot, especially when he’s shooting, or in Florida, close to Scientology HQ. Which is why we don’t really associate him with Los Angeles and Hollywood anymore. Not the way we associate so many others. Full Story
Justin Theroux & Peter Noah: two tours through New York
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The New York Times published profiles this weekend of Peter Noah Kavinsky Centineo and Justin Theroux back to back. I read them back to back on Saturday morning – Justin first, then Noah . Full Story
Royal Meghan’s wedding dress secrets
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ITV’s Queen of the World, a documentary about the Queen’s commitment to the Commonwealth, will air tomorrow in the UK and on HBO on October 1. As I wrote last week Full Story
Party City Joker
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On Friday director Todd Phillips released a camera test of Joaquin Phoenix in his Joker makeup and it is certainly a look. My first thought was that he looks like Pogo the Clown, aka John Wayne Gacy. My second thought was that he sort of looks like the mask Heath Ledger’s Joker wore in the bank robbery scene Full Story
Gwyneth’s wedding and anniversary
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Gwyneth Paltrow is celebrating the 10th anniversary of goop tomorrow, marking the day she first sent out the goop newsletter, from London, where she was based at the time, by opening her first pop-up in Notting Hill. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
It was announced yesterday that Michael B Jordan is the new ambassador for Coach menswear. Like Selena Gomez on the women’s side of the business, MBJ will be the face of the brand’s clothing and fragrance lines and participate in “special design projects”. Read Full Intro
What Else?
There’s been some controversy over designer sneakers being sold for over $500 that look used and are held together with tape. Some people think it’s fetishising poverty. Full Story
TGIF with Peter Noah Kavinsky Centineo
You’re welcome in advance for blessing your Friday with an update on Noah Centineo, our beloved Peter Kavinsky, who I am still very much in a one-sided, thirst-heavy relationship with, even though the backlash has begun and there are some people who are ready to move on to the next Internet Boyfriend. Full Story
