Dear Gossips,
As you may have heard, the Screen Actors Guild award nominations kicked off all kinds of talk and frustration about snubs and category fraud yesterday. There are actors and films that have been recognized and awarded for weeks that the guild ignored. Read Full Intro
Jason Momoa in the totally bonkers Aquaman
Aquaman is so incredibly dumb I don’t know how to review it other than to just tell you what it is and emphasize how extremely likeable it is in the face of its own sheer stupidity. So there will be some spoilers, but also realize that mere words cannot capture the magnificent dumbness of this movie, so in a way, it is impossible to spoil. Full Story
Celebrity Social Media, December 13, 2018
Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux ran around Washington, DC for the day, then attended a screening of On the Basis of Sex in New York City. Both fangirled over Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which is understandable. But I find the bromance interesting because Armie is so LA - a born-and-bred California movie star. Full Story
Taylor’s birthday and New Year’s
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It’s Taylor Swift’s birthday today. She’s 29. Which means we have a month to go before an entire year of conversations and think-pieces about Taylor turning 30 and what she’s done and what she’s going to do and this, that, and the other. Nobody needs to hurry this discussion. Full Story
Miley’s “survival partner”
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are two of the thousands of people whose homes were destroyed in the wildfires that devastated California last month. Miley is promoting her new single “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart Full Story
RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4 Premieres This Friday
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(Lainey: this post was written by our newest contributor. He was one of the students in the 4th year Arts & Humanities class I taught on Gossip at Western University last year. He is also a student of RuPaul’s Drag Race. For a long time, I’ve wanted to include Drag Race content on this site but hadn’t found the right voice, the right expert. Full Story
Prince Harry: Protecting Royal Meghan
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Meghan Markle covers the new issue of US Weekly that clearly went to print before her surprise appearance at the British Fashion Awards on Monday night because otherwise, obviously, they would have used a photo from that event. Full Story
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots
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Mary Queen of Scots is a slightly anachronistic and completely ahistorical telling of the feud between Mary, Queen of Scots—the lack of proper punctuation in the title drives me nuts—and Queen Elizabeth I. Take this as even less of a history lesson than The Favourite Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Sandra Bullock was in Sao Paolo this week promoting her new movie Bird Box which premieres on Netflix on December 21. Basically Netflix’s strategy is to get you to stay home during the holiday season and not leave the couch. Read Full Intro
What Else?
Anna Wintour didn’t mind The Devil Wears Prada so much when she found out that Meryl Streep would be playing her. I mean, at first she may have claimed she wasn’t into it but, over time, it seems like it has grown on her, especially since Miranda Priestley is basically an icon. I wonder if, in a decade, Gretchen Carlson might feel the same way Full Story
Everybody loves Emily
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There were some significant snubs today when the SAG nominations were announced. We’ll discuss them here and there in other posts later and what that means for Oscar. It’s a competitive year. That’s the simple, incomplete explanation. It’s also, as always, a popularity contest. Full Story
