Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 17, 2015 Dear Gossips, If it was a long weekend for you as it was for me (Family Day in parts of Canada/Presidents Day in the US), I hope you’re rested. Because, finally, it’s Oscar Week! But first… Chinese New Year on Thursday! We have a few more signs By Lainey • Feb 17, 2015 07:59 am
Media Manipulation Gwyneth will be there Yes! Yasssss! Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted this today: Dear @TheAcademy I humbly accept your offer to present at this year’s #Oscars #WhereMySpanxat— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) February 13, 2015 Now. After you finish rolling your eyes, can you admit that this makes the Oscars more fun? To know that she' By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 04:13 pm
BFFs Taylor Swift & Karlie Kloss: VOGUE yearbook March issue of VOGUE. Best friends Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss on the cover. It’ll likely become one of the most talked-about covers of the year. You remember last year when I gave her the nickname “The Friend Collector”? This is a The Friend Collector’s Ultimate Achievement. To By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 03:36 pm
Maple Leaf Everybody is Beyonce I mean I guess you can’t do something like this anymore without mentioning her. And she wants the credit, godammit! (Or at least Kanye West does.) Drake released a short film yesterday. Then, last night, a new album. Tape? He’s calling it a tape. Collection? Whatever. It’s By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 02:05 pm
Gorgessity Dakota to the Oscars As I wrote in my Fifty Shades Of Grey review yesterday, Dakota Johnson is the discovery of the movie. She makes it. And this took me by surprise, how much I enjoyed watching her, hearing her. Because Anastasia Steele was such a f-cking dullard in the book. And they focused By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 01:05 pm
Bad Style My Obsession’s style London premiere of Fifty Shades Of Grey. You going tonight, or what? Don’t pretend you’re not. Last night the movie set an R-rated record with $8.6 million at the box office. Entertainment Weekly is projecting $93 million for the four day weekend. That includes many of you. By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 12:11 pm
Style Rihanna wins Kanye West presented his new Adidas collection yesterday at NY Fashion Week. Beyonce and JayZ were there. Even Anna Wintour was there. And Justin Bieber had to sit in the second row. But the most stylish person at the event? Rihanna. Always Rihanna. Close second: the ridiculously beautiful Alexander Wang. By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 11:22 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Aberforth mirror Taylor Swift loves the number 13. And since it’s Friday the 13th, she just dropped the video for Style, easily one of the best, if not the best, songs on the 1989 album. Also, not surprisingly, she’s wearing shorts. I love Style. So I was really, really looking By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 10:21 am
Baby and Bump Obsession What we learn from Blake & Cindy Did I mention I got another job? I’m still blogging here, of course. And working as a reporter for etalk and one of the hosts of The Social. Now though I’m also a monthly columnist for FLARE Magazine. My first column is featured in the new issue and By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 10:08 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 13, 2015 Dear Gossips, Rachel McAdams continued to work on True Detective Season 2 yesterday in LA. Rachel’s Chinese astrological sign is Horse. The Chinese Squawking Chicken says there’s not too much to be concerned about for the Horse during the Year of the Goat/Sheep. In fact, this year, By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 09:02 am
Xenu Cruise & Cruz together again Gossip Nostalgia! When Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman broke up, he had a brief situation with Sofia Vergara before making Penelope Cruz his bonafide. They were together for three years. Three years is a long time. And then she moved on to Matthew McConaughey. You forgot about that didn’t By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aloha! Jerry Maguire and Elizabethtown had a baby The new Cameron Crowe movie… For a while there it had no title. Now that it has a trailer, it has to have a title: Aloha. So. Yeah. The name is sh-t. But the cast. This cast! Bradley Cooper Emma Stone Rachel McAdams John Krasinski Bill Murray Alec Baldwin Jay By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 03:59 pm
Music Janet in Milan This past Super Bowl was the 10th anniversary of Janet Jackson and that punk who let her eat all the sh-t that happened after. I was thinking about that the other day because we’ve been playing some Janet in the studio during commercial breaks. And then I thought about By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 01:46 pm
BFFs Gwyneth, Demi, Nicole and the florist In Hollywood, even florists are famous. In the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Hollywood’s most well-connected florist, Eric Buterbaugh is profiled, along with his three closest celebrity friends, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore, and Nicole Richie. Obviously. There’s not a lot of gossip detail since the feature is By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 01:01 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Michelle’s slouchy stripes Am obsessed with this outfit. Love the messy stripes. Love the loose but tailored fit of the top. Love the length of the skirt. Love the clash but at the same time the match of all the prints. And it looks SO comfortable. By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 12:08 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession “Angie didn’t care” Amy Pascal was at the Women in the World conference yesterday. Pascal, of course, was head of Sony during the big Gossip Dump of 2014 when all those hacked emails were released. As Sarah wrote last week (click here for a refresher), it was recently announced that she’s leaving By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 11:46 am
