Movie Reviews and Previews Pam & Liam on WWHL Like other gossips, I noticed the playful interactions between Pam Anderson and Liam Neeson throughout The Naked Gun promotional tour, but my first instinct was to think they were hamming it up to sell the movie, even after I saw the so-called confirmation from an “exclusive source” in PEOPLE. And By Violeta • Aug 05, 2025 11:05 am
TV Updates Diego Luna is at Home Hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! As I’ve said before, I am a big fan of Diego Luna. But in my house, no one loves Diego Luna more than my husband. Even though the show has been over for weeks, my man lives in the Andor subreddit, so that’s how I learned that Cassian By Violeta • Jun 25, 2025 03:21 pm
Books March 26, 2025 – Shout-Outs Dear Jade! Congratulations on the publication of your book! I’ve just started to read Hair: A Lai Mȳ Memoir, and I am already moved by your writing as much as I knew I would be. I want all of the LG gossips who love good writing to get themselves By Violeta • Mar 26, 2025 09:42 am
TV Updates 10 SNL Moments As most of you may know, we are in the midst of SNL’s 50th season, and this weekend is the official celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. Some of us have already been reflecting and reminiscing while streaming Peacock’s Beyond Saturday Night four-episode docuseries and Questlove’s By Violeta • Feb 14, 2025 10:58 am
TV Updates Ladies of SNL on WWHL Sometimes I indulge in the ritual of making a good breakfast while catching up on some TV. I will open up my iPad next to my coffee maker and hope that the guests on Watch What Happens Live are some I recognize. Look, I am no reality TV snob, but By Violeta • Feb 13, 2025 10:22 am
Quiveration Diego & Gael: My SMAs Many of PEOPLE Magazine’s SMA’s come from Boston, but two of my Sexiest Men Alive Ever are Mexican-born, and they are Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. For many, Diego & Gael are our still-charming Matt & Damon who have known each other all of their lives, became By Violeta • Nov 18, 2024 02:45 pm
TV Updates Ali Wong + Frankie Quiñones = No Fools Yesterday I was so happy to learn that Ali Wong will be directing a one-hour special from Frankie Quiñones as part of Hulu’s “Hularious” banner: Frankie Quiñones is a stand-up comedian and actor who starred in Hulu’s This Fool, a show that was probably canceled because people like By Violeta • Nov 14, 2024 01:33 pm
TV Updates Las Brujas: Narrative and Power in Agatha All Along With WandaVision, I understood its protagonist quickly and deeply. The show came out at a time when I was struggling with narratives—not only could I not make them, I was struggling to focus on them, make sense of them, understand them. This might not seem like a big deal, By Violeta • Oct 30, 2024 03:05 pm
TV Updates Gilmore Girl Season & The Best of Emily I know it is not technically fall, but after that awful heat wave we just experienced in California, I am relieved that it finally feels like it. And while for some people fall means pumpkin spice and Halloween, for many of us, fall has meant it is time for a By Violeta • Sep 20, 2024 01:40 pm
Music Cyndi Lauper, True Infinite Icon Cyndi Lauper was on my mind all weekend. As I confessed on The Squawk a few days ago, after hearing and reading so much about her for the better part of a year, I finally listened to some Chappell Roan. As I’ve obsessively played The Rise and Fall of By Violeta • Sep 17, 2024 12:06 pm
Douchebags Simone Biles: A New Way to Win The gymnastics all-round individual competition is tomorrow and while we don’t yet know what will happen, I think it’s safe to say my hope for Simone Biles was realized. What makes Simone Biles’ performance in Paris so incredible to me is the tremendous mental strength it has taken By Violeta • Jul 31, 2024 03:16 pm
Jock Smut Simone Always Rises (Trigger warning for sexual and mental abuse and harassment.) I am a competitive person. At least that is what my family, who has experienced many a game-night with me, tells me. But the desire for me or “my team” to win at all costs all but disappears when I watch By Violeta • Jul 24, 2024 11:08 am
Music Letterman’s Next Guest: Miley Cyrus A few months ago, in one of my last lurking sessions of what is left of Twitter, I stumbled upon a clip of Miley Cyrus doing a really cool cover of The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.” It gave me flashbacks to her first YouTube Backyard Sessions, when some of us, By Violeta • Jun 17, 2024 02:28 pm
Music Shakira and Barbie Last week, Lainey posted in What Else? that she was really enjoying the new Shakira album. It was just a couple of days before Cowboy Carter would drop, I’d already stopped obsessing about eternal sunshine, and I got curious. I was on my way home from work and I By Violeta • Apr 02, 2024 11:52 am
Music Time Travelling with Beyoncé Music has always taken me places. When I was teaching or working over Zoom full-time in the first couple of years of the pandemic, I had to start with a playlist. Los Angeles Azules & Natalia Lafourcade’s “Nada es suficiente” helped me connect with students and colleagues as we By Violeta • Feb 14, 2024 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie is my Lego Movie I still remember being so confused when The Lego Movie was announced. How could they possibly make a movie about interlocking blocks? But by the time the movie was released, my Lego-obsessed husband and I had a 4-year-old son who loved putting together sets with his dad…and he had By Violeta • Jul 20, 2023 12:20 pm
