Ian McKellen Gossip

If you’re not down with Taylor Swift, you’re not going to like this. I wrote the other day that she’s probably not the one doing the inviting anymore. Everyone else wants to be invited. Everyone wants to be on the Squad. Even Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. Stewart tweeted at Taylor yesterday: So @IanMcKellen Full Story

The trend over the last several years has to been to depict Sherlock Holmes as a dashing young detective, thanks to the one-two punch of Robert Downey, Jr.’s Victorian-era rake and Bimblesnort Cupcake’s twenty-first century misanthrope. But director Bill Condon has a new iteration for us—an older one. Full Story

I’m a sucker for goose fleshy music in a movie trailer if it’s done well. Which is an obvious thing to say. But the goose fleshy music attempt is so often attempted, with sh-tty results, that it feels more and more like it doesn’t happen enough. It happens here because we have two master narrators at work who can match the music with their voices. Full Story

Sir Ian McKellan. They should all speak with as much sincerity and compassion and intelligence and substance as Ian McKellan. Interviews these days are so f-cking bullsh-t …is it a reflection on the vapidity of the subject or the subject’s refusal to engage in anything other than innocuous banter for the sake of guarding privacy? It’s possible to get personal without getting public. Full Story

Entertainment Weekly has compiled a list of 33 of the hottest celebrities over 50. Among them: Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Denzel, Bruce Willis, Ian McKellen (yes yes yes!), Iman (this bitch is 50???), Angela Bassett, and Jessica Lange (totally disagree. Full Story