Intro for November 14, 2013 Dear Gossips, So don’t you get fresh with me… Our audience coordinator at The Social, Chloe, often asks what we want on the show’s playlist that she runs during commercial breaks and during the show’s dance parties. Back in August, I requested Buffalo Stance. Neneh Cherry! I By Lainey • Nov 14, 2013 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 22 Jump Street? Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill were photographed on the set of 22 Jump Street yesterday. That’s apparently the title of the 21 Jump Street sequel, presumably written again by Jonah Hill. I liked the first movie, mostly because I thought Tatum was great – fearless, willing to be the joke, By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 04:28 pm
Amazingness Mimi hated American Idol And she’s talking about it. She’s talking a lot of sh-t about it. God bless her, you know? God. Bless. Her. Mimi was interviewed on the radio and asked about her Idol experience. She was candid: it was hell for her. And Nicki Minaj was Satan. But what By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 03:45 pm
Hook Ups Joaquin Phoenix’s new girlfriend The last time we checked in on Joaquin Phoenix’s love life, he was dating Heather Christie. Check him out in Rome the other day with …a new girlfriend? She doesn’t look like Heather Christie. The Daily Mail reports that her name is Allie Teilz, a DJ, and that By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 12:35 pm
Media Manipulation Fifty Shades of lip touching Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan “in character” as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, now pushed back 6 months to open in February for Valentine’s Day 2015. As you can see, Johnson’s Anastasia is all reticent and By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 11:27 am
Girly Throw Downs Mark Wahlberg is not Tom Cruise Here’s Mark Wahlberg at the premiere of Lone Survivor last night. After the screening, he attended a Q&A and went off about actors comparing their lives and their preparation for film to what real soldiers and victims actually go through. “I don’t know it just hit By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maleficent is coming The poster was released yesterday. Now the first teaser trailer. And... It's part Taylor Swift video, part Spice Girls Viva Forever (right?!?!), and part True Blood. There's a lot of True Blood flavour here, non? Obviously we're building here to a big reveal of By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 10:20 am
Style Jennifer Lawrence Catching Fire with Nicholas Hoult Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult got back together while they were working on the new X-Men movie in Montreal this summer. That's not the hard part. Staying close when your job keeps you close, inside a bubble, is easy. You see each other every day. There's By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 10:10 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for November 13, 2013 Dear Gossips, Duana asked me last night how my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, reacted to the announcement of my upcoming book about her, Listen To The Squawking Chicken. Well, she came over yesterday when I was at work to drop off some ginseng soup. Normally she doesn’t come By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 09:43 am
Book Review I wrote a book Shameless self-promotion here but this was the deadline I’ve been referring to. I was writing a book. I WROTE A BOOK! The book is called "Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)”. So now you By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 03:43 pm
Chinese Squawking Chicken I wrote a book Shameless self-promotion here but this was the deadline I’ve been referring to. I was writing a book. I WROTE A BOOK! The book is called "Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)”. So now you By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 03:38 pm
BFFs Gwyneth’s weekend with RDJ And Jason Bateman and Joel Silver and Reese Witherspoon and Jon Favreau and Maya Rudolph and Gwen and Gavin… Oh and Justin Theroux. But not Jennifer Aniston. I guess she was busy. Because she and G are friends post-Pitt. Proof! Anyway, RDJ threw a 40th birthday party for his wife By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 03:32 pm
Gross #ThisIsUnbroken Reality is an asshole. We live in a world where Robsten could not survive but Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne are still happening. Or happening again, depending on how you see it. Rumour has it she took a break from him because he was being a pig over text with By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 01:04 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Naomie Harris’s open blue dress This is Vionnet. Vionnet is considered pretty luxe. But this, to me, is beneath Naomie Harris. It reminds me of something Ebola Paris Hilton would wear. It’s cheap. It looks messy. And Naomie Harris is neither cheap or messy. By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 11:32 am
Girly Throw Downs Taking a sh-t on Justin Timberlake’s face Those are his words, not mine. Justin Timberlake is one of five men featured in GQ’s Men of the Year issue. And the interview happened just as critics were eviscerating his movie Runner, Runner and Part 2 of The 20/20 Experience. You remember, don’t you? Variety’s By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 11:16 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Elizabeth Banks’s yellow dress I just…think she can do so much better than a People’s Choice Awards dress, you know? She can do SO.MUCH.BETTER. Than sateen. And ball gowns. And pageants and proms. She can wear the f-cking sh-t out of it if you give her something better. By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 10:57 am
