Amazingness Mimi’s open letter > everyone’s open letter I should have known. It’s a holiday weekend. It’s THANKSGIVING. And you know what happens at holidays? Holidays are for Mimi. Because Mimi is a giver. She just can’t help herself. She cannot contain her generosity. Be thankful for Mimi. Because Mimi just wrote us an open By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “We gotta move” That’s a line from this new Monuments Mens trailer that was just released. And it could apply to the film’s awards season strategy too. They have to move. They have to move now because otherwise 12 Years A Slave will walk away with it. If they want to By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Morning Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch was on Good Morning America today presumably to promote The Fifth Estate. Julian Assange borrowed from Sinead O’Connor this week and wrote a hissy fit open letter to Cumberbatch about his portrayal. Thanks for the publicity, Julian. Don’t you know? Or does he know and that’ By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 11:36 am
Cheating Loins Gossip Nostalgia: Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner in Vancouver I miss you, Vancouver. It’s Thanksgiving and I miss you. STAR Magazine via Celebitchy just gave me a reason to write about it. According to STAR, Ben Affleck will be shooting Superman & Batman in Vancouver. And since he supposedly fingered a girl in Vancouver while he was engaged By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia’s smoking O face Several character posters for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac were released yesterday featuring all the actors’ orgasm faces. Some of them, I think, are coming while stimulating themselves. Some of them are coming while being stimulated. Shia is … I don’t know what Shia LaBeouf is. Is he coming at By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 10:09 am
Intro for October 11, 2013 Dear Gossips, Is it just me or did Scandal actually …slow down? A little? The show still moves at a ridiculous pace but I feel like we only blew through 4 plot developments instead of the 8 we were getting per episode last season. No? Still dementedly, indulgently frantic? Fine. By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Hustle Scorsese The second trailer for American Hustle has been released. Even from the beginning everyone was saying it felt like a Scorsese picture but now, this, this is like a Scorsese pattern. It hit me near the end, when Christian Bale delivers this line: "It's gotta be the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 04:17 pm
Gorgessity OMG Sandy, Sandy, Sandy! Holy sh--------t. Sometimes someone looks so good you want to punch yourself in the face. Picture me pile-driving myself over and over again. Because Sandra Bullock, tonight in London at the premiere of Gravity, is f-cking amazing...at any age, and she's almost 50. We By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 03:16 pm
Amazingness Madonna cannot be enslaved This story on Page Six made me laugh today. So Madonna went to the screening of 12 Years A Slave the other night at the New York Film Festival. According to a Page Six source: A spy said that as the movie began, “a blonde in black lace gloves wouldn’ By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 12:33 pm
Quiveration It’s so great to see you, Mark Ruffalo Which should be the title of the article every time I post about Mark Ruffalo. Yesterday I read an article about Mark Ruffalo here at the Guardian about how great he was in You Can Count On Me, and specifically the scene with Laura Linney where he cries in front By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 11:37 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Lucy’s black and white patch Not sure I like this dress, especially the way that striped patch just floats there on the chest. But I do like the strong shoulders and of course the way she looks in it, how it makes her seem taller than she is. God she is gorgeous. And I want By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 11:07 am
Gossip Nostalgia The women in Joaquin’s life “The Lunchbox Fund is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing a daily meal for orphaned and vulnerable school children in township and rural areas of South Africa, a country where 65% of all children live in poverty.” The Executive Board in the US includes Joaquin Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Summer By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 10:47 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Nikki’s one-piece This is a great one-piece swimsuit, isn’t it? I love it a lot. I want it a lot. It’s not swimsuit weather for us here in Canada and I have no tropical holiday plans coming up but this swimsuit makes me want to book one. By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 10:18 am
Douchebags Robin Thicke like Justin Timberlake Usually it’s the other way around – JT sounds like RT, JT’s sound is RT’s sound, etc. This time, it’s Robin Thicke doing the Justin Timberlake. Thicke’s interview with Oprah Winfrey airs this weekend. PEOPLE.com has posted a preview clip featuring him addressing the Miley By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 10:03 am
Blind Riddles The assistant at the border This blind riddle is about a celebrity and his assistant, and what it might be like to work for a celebrity as an assistant. Some of the benefits? You get to be part of that culture and you’re surrounded by creativity – in this case, I guess – and you get By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 09:45 am
Kanye West Intro for October 10, 2013 Dear Gossips, Jimmy Kimmel gave Kanye West almost 30 minutes last night and just pressed play. Kanye did as Kanye does: he performed, he delivered, he entertained. “We are here to entertain you,” he preached. Always. Because whatever your feelings about Kanye – you hate him, you love him, you defend By Lainey • Oct 10, 2013 09:28 am
