Emmy Awards 2025 Emmys Fashion: Naked and Champagne Honestly? I was hoping the fashion we would see at the Emmys would be better than it was. Maybe it’s that we’re coming off two major film festivals in Venice and TIFF and also it’s New York Fashion Week and the celebrities who have been all over By Lainey • Sep 15, 2025 10:51 am
Style The Met Gala’s Well-Suited Women With a Dandyism theme, suits and suiting are on everyone’s mind, and though “dress like the boys” isn’t a huge stretch on the theme, many of the women in this category might never get to wear pants to an event, depending on their stylist’s inclinations or whatever By Duana • May 06, 2025 08:04 am
Theatre Nerd The Stars come out for Othello The new staging of Othello, the first on Broadway since 1982, set a box office record for a play in previews. They’re coming for Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Shakespeare, probably in that order. Some tickets are going for as much as US$920 – which shouldn’t be a By Lainey • Mar 24, 2025 11:00 am
TV Updates Angela Bassett (and some other people) Did you know Angela Bassett has a new series coming out? Probably not, because it’s on Netflix and they barely advertise anything. But she does, a limited series co-starring Robert De Niro called Zero Day. It’s on Netflix as of today. Here’s the trailer: The series also By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 02:39 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Governors Awards happened last night, an event that is more important than the Golden Globes two nights before. Because this is the actual Oscar Academy – the people who vote on Oscars are in that room, and during such a tightly contested award season, visibility is critical, which By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 09:13 am
Golden Globes 2024 Intro for January 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, So the “new” Golden Globes were…a mess. Which is how we like our Golden Globes! Unfortunately for Jo Koy, in most of the post mortem coverage of the show, his performance as host is included in that mess. In his defence, he had no time. We all By Lainey • Jan 08, 2024 07:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angela Bassett finally gets her man Little gold man, that is. After going viral earlier this year when Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett will at last get her Oscar. Bassett, who was previously nominated for Best Actress in 1994 for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 10:00 am
Michael B Jordan The TIME 100: A Met Gala Appetizer? As mentioned in today’s open, even though there are always a lot of celebrities in New York on any given day, it feels extra loaded right now because the Met Gala is coming up soon. There was also the TIME 100 event last night which brought a lot of By Lainey • Apr 27, 2023 02:12 pm
Outfit of the Week Let Angela Bassett feel her feelings It wasn’t exactly surprising, given how momentum shifted after Jamie Lee Curtis won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress, but still, there was a sting in her winning the Oscar over Angela Bassett. And Bassett felt it, you could tell. As Curtis’s name was read, Bassett didn’ By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 07:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Best Picture frontrunner is… After the SAG Awards last night, Everything Everywhere All At Once is officially the Best Picture frontrunner. Sure, Top Gun: Maverick won the stunt ensemble award, but EEAAO won four awards, taking three of the four individual acting awards for motion pictures, including Ke Huy Quan for Outstanding Performance by By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:05 am
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Lainey wrote about Tom Cruise’s awards season campaign strategy, which so far amounts to “let the movie speak for itself”. Cruise himself has been scarce, but Top Gun: Maverick is coming back to theaters to remind the town how big this movie is, how By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmys Good: Cedric’s Open and the Ever-changing Backdrop The show was uneven. There were some good bits, but there were too many bits. And Sarah and Duana will be following with posts about what the Emmys got wrong. In this post, we’re starting with the Emmys’ good start – which was Cedric the Entertainer doing an Emmys version By Lainey • Sep 20, 2021 08:10 am
Brad Pitt Oscars: The Award Show Movie The Academy yesterday announced its first slate of presenters. The Oscars this year, as we know, is not going to be the show we’re used to seeing. There will be no audience. Nominees are limited to one guest. Not even sure if presenters are allowed to bring guests. Apparently By Lainey • Apr 13, 2021 01:42 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Angela Bassett: Emmys Best Red As Duana just mentioned in the previous post, there were a lot of pink and red dress combinations on the Emmys red carpet last night. There was, however, a standout all red outfit that deserves its own spotlight. And the wearer, always, deserves her own spotlight: Angela Bassett. MY GOD. By Lainey • Sep 23, 2019 05:35 am
