TV Updates Charlie Hunnam really did it Last year we saw Charlie Hunnam in character as serial killer (and grave robber, etc) Ed Gein for the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s incredibly popular true crime anthology series, Monster. Season one dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer and won many awards for star Evan Peters. Season two dealt with By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 12:07 pm
TV Updates Becoming JFK Jr and Daryl Hannah There was all kinds of bitching a few weeks ago (we did it here too) when the first photos of Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon in costume as John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette were released with the start of production on Ryan Murphy’s series, Love Story. The By Lainey • Jul 10, 2025 11:40 am
John F. Kennedy Ryan Murphy’s John & Carolyn If you’ve been visiting this site since our early days, you know that I’ve long been obsessed with John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette. Last fall I posted about the news that Ryan Murphy would be giving us his take on the most iconic It Couple of By Lainey • Jun 17, 2025 01:04 pm
TV Updates Monster Charlie A couple months ago we learned that Charlie Hunnam will star in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s extremely popular Netflix anthology series Monster, which fictionalizes the crimes of some of America’s most notorious killers. We now have our first look at Hunnam gussied up as Ed Gein, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 10:27 am
TV Updates JFK Jr, Carolyn… and Ryan Murphy? If you’ve been visiting this site over the last almost 20 years, you know about my obsession with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. There have been times when it’s bordered on unhealthy. I’ve read everything, I’ve pored over every photo. I wonder often, too often, about what it By Lainey • Sep 19, 2024 12:19 pm
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam is Ryan Murphy’s new Monster Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is one of the worst-titled series in Netflix history, but it is also Netflix’s third-most popular original English language series. Besides being a hit for the platform, it also won a bunch of awards, including an Emmy for Niecy Nash Betts—I will By Sarah • Sep 17, 2024 10:34 am
TV Updates Incoming: The Year of FEUD? If you’ve been reading this site over the years, you may remember how obsessed I am with Truman Capote and his Swans. “All literature is gossip” is what Truman once said… and, ironically perhaps, he knew it better than anyone else. Because the gossip that he wrote is what By Lainey • Jan 04, 2024 11:20 am
TV Updates Intro for July 7, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike has entered its third month, so now it’s time for…Ryan Murphy strike drama! Most productions in the US have shut down as part of the WGA strike, but four high-profile productions are still rolling cameras on the east coast, including three under Murphy’ By Sarah • Jul 07, 2023 09:03 am
Golden Globes 2023 Ryan Murphy’s Golden Eye The tribute to Ryan Murphy was overwhelming, in so many ways. As Lainey said to me, when the room first welcomed him, “that entire room has worked with him” – it’s true that since each Ryan Murphy show is its own niche thing, he really has multiple audiences, and he By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boys in the Band trailer Ryan Murphy is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood. This year alone he has three films—assuming The Prom makes its December release date—and five television shows coming out. He has directed one of the movies, The Prom, and episodes for two of the television shows, Hollywood By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 12:20 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: A Celebrity Lockdown Report Card Now that we’re five weeks or so into sheltering at home, we thought we’d do a report card style discussion on three celebrities and assess their work during this time. Who gets a barely passing grade? Who’s meeting expectations? And who’s trampling over the expectations and By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 03:50 pm
TV Updates “Wealth, Privilege, and Gwyneth” Is that redundant? Like can’t you just put “Gwyneth Paltrow” in the title and assume that everyone else will know that the words “wealth” and “privilege” will follow? This is the cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Platt, the stars of By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 12:35 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 Judith Light forever and ever and Penelope Cruz is always in feathers The Assassination of Gianni Versace won multiple times last night: Outstanding Limited Series, directing for Ryan Murphy, and Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Darren Criss. Ryan dedicated the award to the “one out of every four LGBTQ people in this country (who) will be the victim of a By Lainey • Sep 18, 2018 03:06 am
TV Updates Show Your Work: Snubbed By Shonda, Jessica Alba’s Out, and the Divine Pettiness of Ryan Murphy We didn’t set out to make an all-TV episode of Show Your Work – but when we sat down to record the podcast on Friday night, it was Friday afternoon on the West Coast – so all the pilot pickups and passes were being tweeted more or less in real time, By Duana • May 14, 2018 04:36 pm
Business of Hollywood Mark Wahlberg on the “marketplace” A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million for reshoots on All The Money In The World while Michelle Williams got per diem. His initial salary for the film was $5 million and she was paid $650K. Eventually he and WME, the talent agency By Lainey • Feb 26, 2018 11:23 am
TV Updates Barbra… and Gwyneth?!? One of the best celebrity facts of all time is that Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement. An actual mall. We have written about Barbra’s mall several times here on this blog. And for some reason, people don’t pay attention – TO THE FACT THAT SHE HAS By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 10:40 am
