Relationship Assumption JLo & ARod: For the Money Last week I posted about how Alex Rodriguez was in the Dominican Republic to spend time with Jennifer Lopez while she shoots her new rom-com but that they’d both not shared pictures of themselves together since the reports that they had ended their engagement and their subsequent statement that By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 01:36 pm
Top Reads Viola Davis: “We’re dope” Viola Davis was a double winner at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, recognised for her performances in How To Get Away With Murder and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which she’s been nominated for an Oscar, becoming the most-nominated Black woman in Academy history. This factored into By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 11:52 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae’s Awards Perspective The NAACP Image Awards took place this weekend, hosted by Anthony Anderson. Issa Rae won her first NAACP Image Award for lead actress in a comedy. She was nominated alongside Regina Hall, Folake Olowofoyeku, Yara Shahidi, and Tracee Ellis Ross. And she hilariously shouted out Tracee in her acceptance speech. By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 10:38 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie and Joshua’s Badass Baby Stroller No better way to start the week – here are Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson in New York this weekend out for a walk with their baby who is almost a year old now?! Howwwwww….? I know, I know we’ve all been talking about how it’s been a year By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 09:43 am
TV Updates Intro for March 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, What do you think Beyoncé thinks of Maya Rudolph’s impressions of her on Saturday Night Live? Not that I can claim to know the mind of the Queen, but I can’t imagine she’d be bothered. Maya is one of the greatest SNL talents. Here’s By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? Rihanna’s Navy is constantly on her about new music, and it’s been five years since ANTI came out so they’re well past impatient. So she teased them the other day…and then mitigated their expectations. Excellent fan management. (Dlisted) Andrew Sanford calls Maya Rudolph a genius here By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More MBJ and Chanté …but the real star is Denzel Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams continued to shoot Journal for Jordan yesterday in New York– but it doesn’t seem like they were main the attraction. Denzel Washington, two-time Oscar winner and all-round acting legend is directing. So as you can see, the crowds have gathered. Which feels… Does By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 01:42 pm
Relationship Assumption Gigi and Zayn, the parents It has been a long time since Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik were photographed out together in public – I can’t even remember what I last saw them walking around in New York somewhere. Like those images are in my memory… I just can’t date them. Maybe 2019? Or By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 10:49 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Margaret Cho is on Vulture’s Good One podcast this week to promote her appearance in FX’s Hysterical, the upcoming documentary on women in comedy (trailer here). During the conversation she talked about the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and also her own regrets about her “non-acknowledgment By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 09:04 am
What Else What Else? I love how fresh and green and spring Saweetie’s Cosmo cover is. And the yellow really works too. This is also a good introductory profile on how she got her start and where she’s going in the industry. The styling for this whole shoot is amazing. She looks By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Asians in Media and the Almost Gossip Girl Before we get into the main points of this week’s podcast, Duana’s sharing her playlist. As in her own vocal playlist. This is how she self-cares: by taking vocal lessons – she’s learning how to perform from a list of songs she curated. If you could learn how By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 03:41 pm
Books MBJ & Chanté: In Love in the Park Here are Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams today in Central Park working on the film Journal for Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington based on the memoir by Dana Canedy about her relationship with US Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King and the journals he left for their son who By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 01:30 pm
Equality Issues Issa Rae: Media Mogul Insecure season four, which premiered on April 12 last year, was one of the few highlights in the spring of 2020, during the early part of the pandemic in the west. It was also, for the Black community, a source of comfort midway through the season after the murder of By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan and Ana: Masked and Shielded Production on The Gray Man continued in LA yesterday as Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas were both seen, separately, on set. Ryan was masked, Ana was walking around with her face shield on and if what she’s wearing is part of her character’s costume, we might be By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 09:52 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, History was made last night on TSN in Canada during the Toronto Raptors game as the broadcast featured an all-female crew: Kayla Grey, Meghan McPeak, Kia Nurse, Kate Beirness, and Amy Audibert. And the Raptors ended a nine-game losing streak. It was a joy to watch, obviously for By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 09:07 am
What Else What Else? This Cinnamon Toast Crunch thing is all over my timeline and my group chats. This is a story of a man named Karp, a shrimp tale allegation, and Topanga. It has everything – a possible scandal, a conspiracy theory, cereal, and nostalgia. (Dlisted) The Hunger Games is nine years old?! Yeah… By Lainey • Mar 24, 2021 04:01 pm
