Style Tessa in Grinch Green and Jennifer Garner’s Brown Boots More photos from The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Hollywood event last night and one of the standout looks on Tessa Thompson. And it’s official now, right? This is (at least) the third time we’ve seen Grinch green in the last three weeks – first on Gemma Chan, then By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 03:25 pm
Top Reads Sienna Miller: A settlement not by choice Sienna Miller has accepted a “substantial settlement” from Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers after claiming that one of their publications, the Sun, hacked her phone and intercepted voice messages about her pregnancy in 2005. Sienna flew from LA to London and made a statement about the situation today. I’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 01:10 pm
BFFs Batman and Spider-Man: A Gotham Holiday Romance Gotham, obviously, is not a real place, but it is based on New York City, and it’s the setting for Batman’s adventures. Spider-Man also operates out of New York City. And the current Batman and Spider-Man were both in New York City yesterday with their romantic partners. Robert By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 11:08 am
TV Updates SJP: A Red Carpet Carrie Bradshaw And Just Like That… The first two episodes are now available on HBO Max and on Crave in Canada. For many people, it’s been one of the most highly anticipated television premieres of the year, considering the past popularity of Sex and the City, and the drama behind the By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 10:24 am
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Aniston, the “late bloomer” Yesterday she covered the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter as this year’s recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. Last night Jennifer Aniston was at THR’s Women in Entertainment event to accept the honour, presented to her by her The Morning Show co-star Mitch Kessler. (Speaking of By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was announced over five years ago in June 2016 that Jennifer Lawrence would star as tech scammer Elizabeth Holmes in a film directed by Adam McKay. Back in April of this year, Adam said that the project was still in development, and it’s an example of By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 08:57 am
What Else What Else? Well this isn’t a surprise…but it is now official: Adele sells. A LOT. As if there was any question that 30 wouldn’t be a blockbuster album. What’s also selling but not as easy to buy are Adele tickets to her Vegas residency. And I love her By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton This is Brad Pitt leaving Judd Apatow’s birthday party last night in LA. Brad and Judd have known each other for a long time – years ago, like 20 years ago, before Brad was in Se7en, along with Ben Stiller, they wanted to make a Rolling Stone movie together. So, By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 03:20 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: “Can’t We Do Something Else?” In today’s open, I mentioned Jennifer Aniston last night on Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and playing Blair in The Facts of Life episode, how great it was to see her as part of that ensemble, and what Duana said about how much f-cking fun she’s By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 02:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning West Side Story and Rachel Zegler, a contender? There’s been a LOT of hype about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. It’s currently sitting at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far. The film opens this Friday and if it can do a solid box office, it’s almost guaranteed, not just for a Best Picture By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 12:22 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Nostalgia As I mentioned in today’s site open, Live in Front of a Studio Audience last night was, top to bottom, an immersive nostalgic experience, not just with the re-enactments of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes, but also in between programming, during the commercial breaks. Yes. I By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 11:13 am
Relationship Assumption Courtside Bennifer Happy Holidays from Bennifer who’ve been our Gossip Santa all year, giving us the gift of their rediscovered romance and replaying their greatest hits, with a current twist. We just got another one last night. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were at the Lakers game last night. The Celtics By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 10:05 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? What’s with all this Kenny G content lately? I’m not mad at it, I’m just surprised. Like last week in this space I linked to a post about playing golf with Kenny G which I really want to do now. And this week we’re talking about By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 04:01 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Top Reads Drake Devalues the Grammys Drake was nominated for two Grammys this year: Best Rap Album for Certified Lover Boy and Best Rap Performance for “Way 2 Sexy” ft Future and Young Thug. To be nominated for a Grammy artists and/or their record labels must submit for consideration. So when you get a nomination, By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 10:27 am
