Dear Gossips,
Yesterday Kathleen and our friend Brian shared a story with me that I’m still laughing about. I’m passing this laughter on to you. It’s Friday. It’s the weekend. The world seems like it will never stop being on fire. Read Full Intro
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Amanda Seyfried says that she and Thomas Sadoski’s relationship began when they were both available, both free to date other people and that there were no shady timelines even though she was with Justin Long and Thomas was married right before it was first reported that they were dating. It’s one thing, though, for her to characterise her situation with Justin as a “bad relationship” but… what do you think of her calling his previous marriage a “bad relationship” Full Story
Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper
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Dwayne Johnson reteams with his Central Intelligence director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, for a disaster movie set in a very tall building that is equal parts Die Hard and The Towering Inferno. You would think a movie that stars The Rock and is equal parts Die Hard and The Towering Inferno would be, at the very least, dumb fun, but Skyscraper is oddly dull. Full Story
Katy and Lando in London
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I think I would like Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom together a lot more if I didn’t know she called him “Lando.” Please. Billy Dee Williams and Donald Glover are the only Landos I recognise. The last time we checked in on Katy and her Lesser Lando, they were flaunting their “on-again” status in Rome Full Story
Taylor & Gigi together again
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Taylor Swift’s reputation tour is now stateside. She has a couple of days off. And look, it must be Flashback Friday because she was papped today with Gigi Hadid in New York outside her apartment. How long has it been?!? A while, right? Not just that she’s hanging with Gigi but… like…any friend. Full Story
Smutty Social Media
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E Alex Jung did a wonderful interview with Emmy history-making Sandra Oh a couple of months ago for Vulture that I wrote about back in April Full Story
Black Widow has a director
Earlier this year we learned Marvel (finally) greenlit a Black Widow movie, and now that movie has a director: Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland. Scarlett Johansson apparently backed Shortland because she liked Shortland’s 2012 movie, Lore. Full Story
Tom’s good reviews
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Tom Cruise led the cast of Mission: Impossible – Fallout in Paris yesterday for the world premiere, kicking off what will most likely be a whirlwind press tour before the movie opens in two weeks. That’s what Tom is known for: stunts. All kinds of stunts. Death-defying, injury-inducing movie stunts and also crazy travel promotional stunts. Full Story
Henry Cavill tries to explain
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In an interview to promote Mission: Impossible – Fallout with GQ Australia, Henry Cavill shared with us some thoughts on dating in the #MeToo era. And those thoughts resulted in a social media facepalm Full Story
Who is in the club with MBJ?
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Yesterday, I wrote my most heartbreaking post yet about Michael Bae Jordan’s night out in St. Tropez with his “rumoured girlfriend” Ashlyn Castro. Before yesterday, I didn’t know MBJ had a rumoured girlfriend. Full Story
Sorry to Bother You review
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Coming out of Sundance, Boots Riley’s debut film, Sorry to Bother You, was hailed as “the next Get Out”, and it’s not hard to understand the comparison. Like Get Out, Sorry announces the arrival of a major new filmmaker, and like Get Out, it is (partly) about how America exploits its black citizens, particularly how it exploits black excellence, and specifically how that exploitation exists to maintain a white supremacist status quo. Full Story
