Top Reads World AIDS Day 2014 Today is World AIDS Day. Last year, 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses and 35 million people around the world were living with AIDS. In Canada, one person is infected with HIV every 3 hours. And a quarter of those who are HIV-positive in Canada don’ By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 04:54 pm
Media Manipulation Boyhood, Marion, and Vern You ever watch Oz? JK Simmons played Vern Schillinger. It took me a long time not to see him as Vern anymore. And I don’t. Now I don’t. Now I either see him as Juno’s dad or Miles Teller’s mentor adversary in Whiplash. For which he By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake’s Raging Bull Hurricane This is what Jake Gyllenhaal will look like in Antoine Fuqua’s film Southpaw next year. According to Fuqua, Jake’s dedication to the role and his subsequent transformation are so extraordinary, it’s worthy of very impressive comparison: “Two people have done this in their lives,” Fuqua told Variety By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 03:45 pm
Hook Ups Miley’s Thanksgiving weekend Patrick Schwarzenegger is Miley Cyrus’s first significant relationship since she and Liam Hemsworth ended their engagement. It’s actually only been a year. Feels like longer for sure because that final six months, when it’s on and then off and neither wants to admit it’s done, was By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 01:24 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Gwen’s pinstriped dropcrotch When/if I ever get myself a pair of these, I’m never taking them off, winter, summer, always. By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 12:39 pm
Amazingness Table posing Who poses harder than Victoria Beckham? Maybe Lea Michele. Pffft. Can Lea Michele pull of a TABLE POSE though? God these crack me up. You didn’t expect Posh to just sit a table without cocking something, did you? When she poses on a carpet, she cocks the hip. When By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 12:15 pm
Gorgessity Michael Fassbender surfs with Alicia Vikander Michael Fassbender is in Australia working on a film called The Light Between Oceans with Alicia Vikander. They play husband and wife. But it’s not a romance. He looks after a lighthouse. Their marriage is strained because she can’t have children. Then a baby shows up in a By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:29 am
Media Manipulation Angelina presents Unbroken Angelina Jolie and her cast were in LA yesterday to screen Unbroken at the Writers Guild of America. There were influential Oscar voters in the audience. And press. And now that the embargo has been lifted, we finally have a better idea of whether or not Unbroken can get to By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:06 am
Media Manipulation British Contenders and their fiancees Benedict Cumberbatch and fiancée Sophie Hunter (in Erdem) attended the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards together last night. Of course he’d be there. Because even though he’s been hustling his balls off for an Oscar, that voice was meant for the stage, don’t you know? And he’ By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 10:42 am
Relationship Assumption Vanessa doesn’t look back Would you? With what you know now of Johnny Depp, would you look back? I wouldn’t. Not if I’m Vanessa Paradis. There’s only so much of that bullsh-t you can handle. It’s Amber Heard’s problem now. Check out an affectionate Vanessa this weekend in By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 10:23 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Gillian’s terrible tiers If you’ve watched The Fall, you know Gillian Anderson can do better than his dress, and this hair. It would have been better if she’d let it down. It would have been better if those black tiers weren’t there and the small yellow flowers were just left By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 09:56 am
Quiveration James McAvoy sings Barry Manilow And he can! He can! James McAvoy was on Jonathan Ross this weekend. So was Barry Manilow. And it turns out McAvoy is a Fanilow. He told Ross that he used to dress up in his sisters “wee white trousers” as a kid to sing “the love story of Tony By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 09:45 am
Hook Ups Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend? Just before the American Music Awards last weekend, Taylor Swift was photographed wearing a The 1975 t-shirt. She and Selena Gomez and some other friends went to see the band’s show at the Palladium. That wasn’t a secret. She posted about it on Instagram. Here’s the By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 09:26 am
Intro for December 1, 2014 Dear Gossips, It’s December. Jacek and I put our tree and lights up this weekend. We are ready. Typically, every year, I have my Christmas shopping done by December 2. That’s tomorrow. This year I’m not sure if I’m making my deadline because …teenagers. You know. By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 08:32 am
Music Madonna’s Rebel Heart Parts of Rebel Heart, a new song from Madonna, leaked last night. Alan just sent me a link to it. Click here to listen. People are complaining about the vocals. They’re rough right now but this is probably a rough cut. To me this is not what’s offensive. By Lainey • Nov 28, 2014 01:19 pm
Weddings Work more, talk less Yesterday in Smutty Tingles, I wrote that “I have Benedict Cumberbatch love and engagement fatigue, GOD." Every day there’s another quote about how much he loves his fiancée and how much she loves him and why they decided to list their engagement and why she walked the carpet By Lainey • Nov 28, 2014 12:45 pm
