Oprah Winfrey Gossip

After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at home. Full Story

Thank you for your messages over the last week requesting commentary on Leaving Neverland and Michael Jackson. We decided to hold it for Show Your Work and have a full-bodied discussion. That said, if there was any doubt in my mind about the documentary – and there wasn’t – I would not have been able to deny James Safechuck’s story while watching his face on After Neverland, Oprah’s special that aired immediately following the second part of the film. Full Story

After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. Full Story

As we’ve seen over the last few weeks, many of Hollywood’s biggest names have been rallying around their friends in the Oscar race. It happens every year – celebrities campaigning for each other, hosting screenings and dinners, posing for photos, making sure Academy members know who’s the most popular, who’s the most beloved, who deserves their vote the most. Full Story

We were told this morning on an embargo until they arrived that Oprah would be showing up. There have been rumours that Oprah is doing an interview with Doria Ragland. Those rumours haven’t been confirmed but, clearly, there’s some kind of relationship.  Note Oprah and Idris’s arrival time. Full Story

It has been just over two weeks since I saw A Wrinkle in Time. It was a press screening, which usually means I’m sitting alone being extra all by myself. But this time, my best friend Liz –who works with Lainey at etalk – was sitting beside me. We laughed. We cried. We LIVED. We loved A Wrinkle in Time. Full Story

A Wrinkle in Time is an ambitious movie and its scope outstrips its narrative ability, resulting in an uneven but occasionally enthralling fantasy. Meg (Storm Reid, terrific) is introduced helping her father, Alex Murry (Chris Pine, terrific) in his lab. He’s doing an experiment with sand and frequencies, and talking about how finding just the right frequency can do…something. Full Story

As in her actual voice. Somehow a discussion about Oprah Winfrey, actor, became a conversation about how women’s voices a judged – like the sound of them, whether or not they’re too high, low, squeaky, or deep. This is why, no matter how much I know about sports, I would never be hired as a sports reporter. Full Story

There may never be a Golden Globes acceptance speech as glorious as the one Oprah Winfrey gave last night. Maybe, if you’re young enough. For those of us of a certain age, this may have been our Golden Globes lifetime speech highlight, to go along with her Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award. Full Story