Sports Country Bitch hates Canada? Have been hearing a lot from Ottawa the last couple of days reacting to a story in the National Enquirer about Country B refusing to move. As you know, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher were married last month and made plans to settle into a home in Ottawa. Us Weekly By Lainey • Aug 20, 2010 05:15 am
Gorgessity What are you selling? This is Gabriel Aubry, Canadian model and Halle Berry’s baby father, modelling for something called Charisma. I’m not smart enough to figure out what exactly it is that he’s selling. Maybe a fragrance? Besides, it’s not like anything else jumps out at you beyond his body By Lainey • Aug 20, 2010 04:19 am
George Clooney Does your movie suck? George Clooney and the Italian Queen were out for dinner last night in Italy. His new movie The American is due out on September 1, just 3 days after George is scheduled to receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys on August 29th. Perhaps that’ll give his By Lainey • Aug 20, 2010 03:55 am
Style Cutesy tootsy on carpet Tonight in London at the premiere of Going the Distance, Drew Barrymore brought her trademark gushy hippy giggle alongside boyfriend/justfriend/whatever Justin Long. Maybe I’m just a crusty bitch. Maybe you still find this play endearing. Remember what I said yesterday about a child in grown up clothes? By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 08:45 am
Quiveration He’ll be 30 Next week. Macaulay Culkin. And still very, very reclusive and really random with his appearances. Like last year he showed up on WWE. The f-ck? Macaulay was in London last night with brother Kieran for the UK premiere of Scott Pilgrim and the afterparty, a rare sighting. Umm...something By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 08:00 am
Book Review Great Skin & Gay YA As you know, I am all about reading YA. As I’ve noted, too many times, YA is way underrated. Good YA is as profound, complex, and insightful as any “adult” classified counterpart and again, if you don’t believe me, check out The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA) By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 05:51 am
Girly Throw Downs Angie and the salon scammer are the same They’re both UNCOOL. So there’s some broad who ran a salon in Beverly Hills who’s been charged with fraud after ripping off several celebrities from a credit card scam. Jennifer Aniston was one of them. On Good Morning America today she was asked about the situation and, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 05:48 am
Harry Potter Great Skin & Gay YA As you know, I am all about reading YA. As I’ve noted, too many times, YA is way underrated. Good YA is as profound, complex, and insightful as any “adult” classified counterpart and again, if you don’t believe me, check out The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA) By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 05:27 am
Hook Ups Am I imagining the sexual tension? Interview Magazine, Blake Lively by Ben Affleck – have you read it yet? Ben directs Blake in the upcoming The Town which, yes, does look quite strong and will make the festival rounds before opening on September 10th. Ben is expected to be at TIFF and the Venice Film Festival – both By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 04:31 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Sinkhole & Sons Should be the name of a plumbing company. Chicken Fried Britney tweeted from the Glee set yesterday – photo attached – where she’s working on the all-Britney episode which is kinda like reminding her: see how awesome you used to be before the crazy took over? At some point during By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 03:48 am
Quiveration #1 on a park bench Garrett Hedlund is currently shooting On The Road in Quebec. It was quiet around production for a few weeks as the cast was left relatively undisturbed until of course the angel Robert Pattinson arrived to visit girlfriend Kristen Stewart at which point Montreal became TwiHard central with the paps in By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 03:39 am
Drew Barrymore Drew does the MKO Mary Kate Olsen hair circa 2008ish? Not a dissimilar trajectory when you think about it, really, although MK and Ashley are much wealthier having benefited from a more lucrative tween market in their generation and an entrepreneurialism that kicked in earlier. Anyway, Drew Barrymore is currently in London with her By Lainey • Aug 18, 2010 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Single White Principal Dancer Have received many emails from you today asking for thoughts on the trailer for Black Swan starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, directed by Darren Aronofsky, the follow-up to his acclaimed The Wrestler. Black Swan will open the Venice Film Festival, will screen at TIFF too, and is included By Lainey • Aug 18, 2010 07:42 am
Maple Leaf Rachel’s friend isn’t Jake WHY NOT????????? Like, when you present together at the Oscars and look so cute and perfect, you are SUPPOSED to become boyfriend and girlfriend right away, don’t you know?!!!???????!!!!!! Obviously Rachel McAdams simply has no interest in fulfilling our Hollywood matchmaking fantasies and was seen yesterday in Paris with By Lainey • Aug 18, 2010 06:17 am
Joseph Gordon Levitt JGL singing Thanks to all of you who’ve sent this along – a video recorded a couple of days ago of Joseph Gordon-Levitt singing Natural Woman with his guitar. He doesn’t sound bad, pretty good actually, even though it does nothing for me, no, but for many of you, after By Lainey • Aug 18, 2010 05:31 am
Gossip Girl SacréBlair! Even when the show isn’t strong, Gossip Girl always does a great job cutting their trailers. The trailers are more often than not better than the actual episodes. And the first episodes of the new season take place in Paris. SacréBlair! I dunno, I think it’s cute. And By Lainey • Aug 18, 2010 05:23 am