TV Updates Intro for October 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today we toast the series that don’t make us wait a f-cking eternity for a new season. Of course those of you who are devoted to The Pitt can be the puffiest about this because of how quickly they were able to get into production on the By Lainey • Oct 15, 2025 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Roses at war (again) When a remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s pitch black 1989 divorce “comedy”—quotes because the film is emotionally and literally violent—was announced last year, I thought why. I mean, besides the fact that you almost can’t get a script greenlit without it stemming By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Style Allison Janney: Emmys Best Dressed (Sarah) The West Wing’s 25th anniversary is next week, so cast members from The West Wing appeared at the Emmys to present the award for Outstanding Drama Series. No matter how annoying Aaron Sorkin gets, I will always love The West Wing. It’s a comfort show. I can go By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 12:09 pm
Allison Janney Intro for October 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Last night after the American vice presidential debate, the trailer for the special West Wing episode reunion aired on CNN. HBO Max has yet to release it online. A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote premieres a week today on October 15. We don’t By Lainey • Oct 08, 2020 08:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer in Ma When discussing the trailer for Ma, the horror movie starring Octavia Spencer, I said, “Even if this turns out more camp than high art—a real possibility with a Blumhouse production—I’m cool with it.” Well, guess what. Ma is not camp. It’s certainly not high art. It By Sarah • May 29, 2019 04:27 pm
Oscars 2018 Allison Janney’s party weekend No surprise here, right? Allison Janney won everything leading up the Oscars. What I liked about Allison’s acceptance speech last night was that she wasn’t there to pretend that she hadn’t won everything already and would probably win the biggest prize. Not to say that she was By Lainey • Mar 05, 2018 05:25 am
Sally Hawkins The Oscar Nominees Luncheon You know who wasn’t at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday? Frances McDormand. At least I don’t see her in any of the photos. And maybe this isn’t surprising. Remember at the SAGs when Frances won for Best Actress and got up on stage all like, hey, younger By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 01:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Allison Janney wasn’t sleeping It’s tradition on Oscar nomination morning to hear about how the nominees reacted to their nominations. Some release statements and those make headlines. And, over the years, we’ve become accustomed to the story that they were sleeping. That their moms or their agents woke them up. That their By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 09:56 am
SAG Awards 2018 Allison Janney: SAG Seventh Win Is it not amazing how the movies and shows and performances get shifted or elevated or changed in your mind? I saw I, Tonya before it was in wide release, so those who had seen it at film festivals were mostly talked out and everyone who hadn’t seen it By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 09:53 am
Golden Globes 2018 Allison Janney’s Next Move I would never write anything uncharitable about Allison Janney. It’s unthinkable. But since I began writing this article there have been three rolling blackouts at my house, which is not usual at 5 AM so I have to wonder if I should be doing this at all. But for By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J Blige’s new year “breakthrough” The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala happened last night. This is always an important stop on the award season circuit since so many Oscar voters show up at the event. Which is why so many Oscar hopefuls show up at the event. The voting period for Oscar nominations By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I, Tonya and the real Tonya I, Tonya is opening this weekend, so there was a premiere and people showed up. Tonya Harding showed up! It’s been so long since I’ve seen Tonya Harding, I almost didn’t recognize her. But there she is, in a black dress with some kind of colorful underskirt. By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 6, 2017 Dear Gossips, Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break. We are now just 5 weeks away from the Hollywood Foreign Press announcing By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 08:05 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Allison Janney: Best Emmy Protector You know that question we always hear on nights like this when someone shows up and you can’t understand how they do it? “Does so-and-so ever age?!” We have to add Allison Janney to that list, right? Allison Janney not only doesn’t age, she keeps getting better and By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 04:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding I, Tonya sold during TIFF to distributors Neon and 30West, in a deal said to be $5 million. Lainey thinks that’s low, but it sounds about right to me—the natural effect of the disastrous summer is more cautious spending. Netflix was apparently offering $8 million—I ran across By Sarah • Sep 13, 2017 03:55 pm
Theatre Nerd Six Degrees of….Allison Janney? If there is anyone in the world who doesn’t love Allison Janney, I don’t know about it or they have been sent into deep, deep hiding. Everyone loves her—because she can do everything. Beloved prestige dramas? Of course. Gigantic Chuck Lorre sitcom that’s one of the By Duana • Oct 20, 2016 11:05 am
