TV Updates All’s Fair is a complete trainwreck By now you have probably heard two things: * Kim Kardashian’s new legal drama, All’s Fair, sucks * Kim Kardashian failed the California bar exam Are these things related? Only in spirit! You might also recall that I have mentioned a game I play with myself when it comes to By Sarah • Nov 12, 2025 10:35 am
TV Updates All’s Fair …and snatched The cast of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair was in Paris last night for the premiere and in all the group shots on their multiple red carpets thus far, it’s been Kim Kardashian who is centered…because she is the main character. And as I wrote on Substack By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 12:01 pm
TV Updates Kim K’s premiere night That Ed Gein show on Netflix has barely cooled and the Ryan Murphy factory is already onto the next thing, All’s Fair, coming to Hulu/Disney+ next month and starring Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, and Glenn Close. There’s a new featurette all By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wake Up Dead Man is the creepy one As I write this, it is my final night in Toronto for TIFF and Wake Up Dead Man did not fit into my schedule. I am bereft, I am bothered, I am bemused, I am bereaved(?), I am exhausted and running out of b-synonyms. The teaser for Wake Up Dead By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 10:35 am
Glenn Close Ryan Murphy continues to torment me Oh, Ryan Murphy, I will always get sucked into your latest torment. The newest show from the House of Murphy is All’s Fair, a legal drama set in a high-powered divorce practice owned by women, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts (who will also star in American Love Story for By Sarah • May 14, 2025 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meanwhile, in New York As Lainey has mentioned, Hollywood is the nexus of what we discuss here at LaineyGossip, the literal and figurative cross-section of celebrity and gossip, and right now, Hollywood is on fire. Or rather, Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, is on fire. Which means movie premieres, award season activities, all By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 10:11 am
Equality Issues The problem with Lee Daniels Lee Daniels caught a lot of backlash over a tweet he made about the role played by Glenn Close in his new Netflix film, The Deliverance. In the tweet, he referred to Alberta, Glenn’s character, as “part of the fabric of our community”. And it did not sit well By Stephanie • Sep 03, 2024 12:45 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Tony Stark and Fake Tony Stark The 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony was held over the weekend and brought out a truly random list of celebrities and billionaires. The Breakthrough Prize was established by billionaire Yuri Milner, a self-described “disappoint[ing] physicist” who hit the first tech wave at just the right moment in the 1990s to By Sarah • Apr 15, 2024 10:08 am
Assy Style Glenn, Gwyneth, Juliette, and JLo: PFW continued It’s been great seeing Glenn Close on the front row circuit at Paris Fashion Week, first at Dior, where she hung out with Rihanna, and then at Armani Privé where she was sat with Gwyneth Paltrow and Juliette Binoche. Glen is sublime in this long velvet jacket with the By Lainey • Jan 24, 2024 11:13 am
Gorgessity RiRi blesses Dior Rihanna has had a close relationship with Dior for many years now but she doesn’t show up to every Dior presentation so when she does decide to attend, it’s obviously a big deal. She is the VIP. The house knows that it has been blessed. And they’re By Lainey • Jan 23, 2024 09:42 am
Style Everyone in New York If you’ve been online at all today, if you’ve opened up Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, there’s no escaping it – it’s Met Gala Monday. People have been talking about it for days, we’ve been talking about it for days, and the talking is about to escalate By Lainey • May 02, 2022 12:45 pm
Oscars 2021 Glenn Close’s Butt: An Oscar Okay, look. Let’s all say what we already knew – the ‘musical trivia’ sequence in the show was odd, in that they should have been doing crowd-work earlier or more often; 15 minutes before the end of the show seemed like a really strange time to just start making jokes? By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 11:24 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for January 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, The pandemic has disrupted so many regular features of award season – the screenings, the parties, the red carpets, and perhaps even the major award shows themselves. The Independent Spirit Award nominations are happening today. Typically the Spirit Awards are held on Saturday, the day before Oscar Sunday, in By Lainey • Jan 26, 2021 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glenn Close and Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was a 2016 bestseller and was held up as an explainer for the newly minted Trump’s America and the “economic anxiety” that precipitated it, downplaying white resentment of a Black president and instead emphasizing the blue-red swing of rural central America as By Sarah • Nov 10, 2020 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams and Glenn Close deserve Oscars, but NOT LIKE THIS I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of the welfare By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 12:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning Glenn Close still goes to the party Here’s my theory about Oscar dresses: if you’re a favourite to win, your Oscar fashion is going to be on the safe side. Because the pictures you take that night, in that outfit, are forever. They’ll be used for a long time. And you don’t want By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 08:30 am
