Movie Reviews and Previews How Ryan Became Ken Ryan Gosling covers the new issue of Variety, just as SAG voting is underway and, of course, ahead of the Oscar voting period, to finally talk about his preparation for playing Ken because as the magazine points out, even though there was obviously extensive marketing for the Barbie movie ahead By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 01:28 pm
Sports Jennifer Aniston and the Beckham Backlash Last week when it was first revealed that Beckhams would feature in an Uber Eats Super Bowl ad, Jennifer Aniston’s name came up, sort of: I actually didn’t think it was really Jennifer, or Jessica, Aniston, I thought maybe that was part of the joke? It was not By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 11:30 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 7, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was tied up yesterday with our dog, Barney, who had surgery on Monday to repair a ruptured ligament in his leg. When I finally opened up social media to get an update, Drake’s meat was staring me in the face – and I swear, I wasn’t By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 09:54 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Intro for February 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, Apologies about today because we will not be posting. Our dog, Barney, tore his CCL last week and had major surgery yesterday to repair it at a veterinary hospital out of town. This didn’t have an impact on the work schedule yesterday during the operation but we By Lainey • Feb 06, 2024 09:41 am
What Else What Else? Olivia Rodrigo wore vintage Versace to the Grammys and yes, it’s a gorgeous dress and it’s gorgeous on her but… this kinda goes back to my whole thing about Olivia’s style: it’s safe and a little boring. What’s missing from a lot of her choices By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 04:00 pm
Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves: Honoured and Honours To another award show that happened this weekend and a much less controversial acceptance speech. Keanu Reeves received the inaugural Lance Reddick Legacy Award at the Saturn Awards last night. The award is not only in recognition of a performer’s talent but also their character. Keanu and Lance worked By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 01:49 pm
Music Taylor Swift: A Flex and a Fumble I posted about this on Sunday – most experts were already predicting that Taylor Swift’s Midnights would win the Grammy for Album of the Year, making her the only artist in history to win the Recording Academy’s highest honour four times. One more than Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 12:23 pm
Maple Leaf Return of the Queen… of All Feelings! We can talk about the other thing in a minute, this post is reserved for the Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion, who made a surprise return to the Grammys last night after a two year absence from the public eye due to Stiff Person Syndrome. And while nobody needs By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 09:56 am
Music Intro for February 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I wrote on Friday, f-ckery is what we have come to expect from the Grammys so, no, it was not a surprise last night that the most nominated artist of the year, SZA, did not win in any of the major categories and the Grammys she did By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 08:55 am
What Else What Else? It’s Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil has apparently had a glow-up, LOLOLOLOL. No but he doesn’t actually look really good and silky. (The Cut) A great piece about women in the United States who are stockpiling abortion pills in advance because of the f-cksh-t that’s happening there By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 04:09 pm
Style Outfits of the Week: Catherine O’Hara We just posted Sarah’s review of Argylle and I was so anxious to know what she thought of it because I liked it so much and part of me was like… do I have bad taste? Well, yes, I actually do, but with Argylle it was more about fun. By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 01:40 pm
TV Updates Ayo Edebiri: Saturday Night Lights For those of you who watched Saturday Night Live last weekend, hosted by Dakota Johnson with musical guest Justin Timberlake, did you happen to get a look at Bowen Yang’s face during the Bee Gees sketch? The sketch was terrible, and I said to Jacek midway through – check out By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 12:33 pm
Sports Lewis + Ferrari Let me just let out a delayed but still loud OMG WTF HOLY SH-T GAHHHHHHHHH before I start trying to put words together. And the reason for this delay is that I was on a work trip yesterday and didn’t have time to get to it. But trust me, By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Dune Fab Four blast off This has been one of the most highly anticipated press tours of the last few years – Dune: Part 2 opens on March 1 and this week its young cast has started promotion. The first film was released in 2021 when the box office was still really struggling from COVID and By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 10:42 am
Music Intro for February 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Grammys are happening this weekend. SZA leads the way with the most nominations this year, including Album of the Year for SOS. But over the last few days, I’ve seen experts from Variety to Vulture publish “will win/should win” lists that predict that while SZA By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 09:28 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake in his Villain Era Justin Timberlake celebrated his birthday last night in New York with a performance at Irving Plaza. It was the second of his “One Night Only” concert series which, sorry, but that makes no sense to me because if he already did one in Memphis and did it again in NYC, By Lainey • Feb 01, 2024 02:23 pm
