Assy Style Justin Timberlake tries to make it up for it As I mentioned yesterday in What Else?, Twitter has been clowning Justin Timberlake for days because of …well… in case you missed it, or you just want to keep seeing it, or maybe we should all just keep enjoying it… https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1538598672900018178 Justin is aware By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Elvis be a Superhero? The box office this weekend will be interesting to watch because so far, at least from what I’ve read, no one really knows which movie will come out on top. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is opening alongside The Black Phone but Jurassic World Dominion is of course still attracting By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 11:15 am
TV Updates Intro for June 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Umbrella Academy is among the most popular series on Netflix. Season three premiered yesterday on Netflix and it’s the first time Elliot Page is promoting the show as who he really is. Elliot’s character, Viktor, transitions this season, in parallel with Elliot in real life, By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 09:36 am
What Else What Else? The world is hell but there have been some bright spots this week. The best part obviously is that Beyoncé told us that it’s time for summer. There’s also joy in these videos of Justin Timberlake dancing – and Twitter’s reaction to it. The tweets have been beautiful. By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 04:28 pm
BFFs Angelina and Salma together again Sarah wrote a couple of weeks ago about Angelina Jolie adding Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir to the cast in a new film she’s directing, Without Blood . Filming is already underway and here are some shots of Angelina and Salma together on set. They’ve been close since they By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 01:02 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt: More Mythology I love an Andrea Long Chu book review. We linked to her piece on Hanya Yanagihara’s writing back in January and she articulated everything that frustrated me about reading A Little Life and her most recent book To Paradise. And it’s not that I necessarily agree with Andrea By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 11:21 am
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
What Else What Else? Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced soon and her legal team is asking for leniency based on how she was treated by her father. Right. But for the girls who she sex-trafficked, alongside Jeffrey Epstein, their adolescence was ruined too. Let’s keep their experiences top of mind. (Cele|bitchy) Lori By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 04:46 pm
Break Ups MBJ & Lori: Arms out, Abs out We’ve been living in a post Michael B Jordan + Lori Harvey world for a couple of weeks now. PEOPLE confirmed their breakup and it sounded at the time like he was ready to go to the next level but that’s not where she was at in her life By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 01:07 pm
BFFs Mimi is a Bro Sarah posted last Friday about the new trailer for Billy Eichner’s upcoming rom-com Bros and as she said, “please just give me this movie right now”. This trailer and the one before it too have been great – and I don’t even mind if it ends up being that By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 12:08 pm
Music The Beyoncé Solstice Today is the first day of summer 2022. Because Beyoncé told us. Summer officially started last night when she released the first track, “Break My Soul”, off her upcoming seventh album, Renaissance. Last week we found out Beyoncé is going back to the long roll-out instead of the surprise drop, By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, I recently interviewed Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele for ETALK presents: IMPACT & INFLUENCE – Celebrating Indigenous Changemakers, a 30-minute special airing and streaming tonight at 7pm on CTV and CTV.ca. Shanese is a public speaker, an advocate and an activist, a writer, a culture critic. She facilitates workshops that By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 09:39 am
What Else What Else? It’s Emmy season and the Kardashians are campaigning, they’re pushing for a nomination for the new Hulu show. I really like Khloe’s outfit at this FYC event. It’s my favourite outfit that she’s ever worn, I think. (Go Fug Yourself) There’s a fancy McDonald’ By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 04:15 pm
Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan: Weekend Polo and the Buried Inquiry Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen at the polo club in Santa Barbara again on Friday. It’s been a pretty regular occurrence this spring, the most consistently visible the Sussexes have been in a while, though I’m not sure if that will continue since Harry’s team By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 11:52 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Pronouns and a new On The JLo Still don’t regret signing up for On The JLo and whatever it is that Jennifer Lopez will do eventually with my email. Because when a new installment of her newsletter arrives in my inbox, I can’t open it quickly enough – since we know, from experience, that she delivers! By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 10:06 am
