Equality Issues Intro for April 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Elliot Page’s interview with Oprah will air tomorrow on Apple TV+. One of the reasons Elliot decided to talk to Oprah is because it’s an increasingly dangerous time for the trans community right now. Laws are being passed that not only restrict their rights but lives By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 09:20 am
What Else What Else? Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul are going to fight – and I’m sure there will be a lot of people who will pay-per-view this sh-t, which means that Floyd and Logan will make a lot of money off it…which… WHYYYY?! Why would anyone want to spend their money like By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor is the Canadian Let’s keep this Canadian energy going… In the previous post about Chris Pratt’s new movie, The Tomorrow War, which has nothing to do with Canada, I made it about Canada because it sounds like they’re playing our national anthem in the trailer. The Tomorrow War comes out By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 02:11 pm
Maple Leaf Chris Pratt Fights for Canada?! The answer to that question is probably no. But Canada is what I thought about when Sarah sent over this teaser trailer for The Tomorrow War, an upcoming movie starring Chris Pratt that’s coming out on Amazon Prime on July 2, one day after Canada Day, but also two By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 12:59 pm
Relationship Assumption On Taika and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are the new couple alert of the week. This is the only thing Kathleen wanted to text me about this morning. Her whole sh-t is that now that she knows Taika is with Rita, she feels like she could have had her shot with him By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 12:21 pm
Equality Issues Intro for April 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, In my post about Daniel Kaluuya being mistaken for Leslie Odom Jr yesterday in the Oscars virtual press room, I wrote that the journalist who asked him the question was repping the Sunday Times in the UK which last week was called out for publishing a piece seemingly By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 10:01 am
What Else What Else? You may have seen this trending on Twitter all day – there’s a rumour going around that My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are no more. There is NOTHING to substantiate this. Twitter seems to be going wild without anything solid to base it on. And much of the reaction By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 04:05 pm
Oscars 2021 Daniel Kaluuya, a Bad Question, and a Royal Connection Oscar night was a great night for Daniel Kaluuya. He won an Oscar for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah, people LOVED his acceptance speech, and there was a party afterwards and I hope he had a great time and didn’t think much about what we’re By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 12:24 pm
TV Updates Sussexes > Oscars Early Oscar ratings have been revealed and while there may be a slight bump up when the final numbers are released today, it’s not like there’s going to be a dramatic increase. Last year the Oscars brought in 23.6 million viewers, which at the time was an By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 10:39 am
Music Intro for April 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, I don’t think it’s news that with the way algorithms work on social media, sometimes our feeds can make us believe that the thing we care about is the thing that everyone else cares about. Yesterday I heard someone say that the Oscar producers’ decision to By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 09:02 am
Style Regina King: Oscar Best Everything EVERYTHING! So let’s back it up a couple of months, maybe longer, when Oscar show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh conceive the show open – they want it to feel cinematic, they want it to feel like a one-shot, a scene that celebrates the best of film, By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 01:54 pm
Oscars 2021 The Devil’s Own Oscar Presenters We were told that the actors presenting in the Oscar movie would be playing themselves, and as I wrote last week, this would require more of a lift than in years past when they’d show up and read from a prompter and open the envelope. We saw several presenters By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 12:08 pm
Oscars 2021 The Oscar Couple: Riz Ahmed and Fatima Farheen Mirza If you were watching the Oscar pre-show on E!, I think you know what I’m talking about, right? Riz Ahmed and his wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza, at the arrivals wall making their red carpet debut. In case you missed it, Riz and Fatima were quietly married last year. He By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 11:42 am
Oscars 2021 The Oscars needed more Alan Kim We are not going to yell at each other about this one because it’s a truth for all: Alan Kim was the delight of this award season and we could have used more of him during the show. It looked promising at the beginning, well before Alan even showed By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 11:13 am
Oscars 2021 Youn Yuh-jung: The Oscar Asian Mom At this point it wasn’t going to be a surprise that Youn Yuh-jung, if given the chance, would give one of the best acceptance speeches of the night. This is the woman who told British people they were “very snobbish” after they gave her a BAFTA. If you missed By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 09:57 am
Oscars 2021 Viola Davis asked for McQueen Here’s the complicated thing about that frequently-repeated stat about Viola Davis and all her Oscar nominations. In case you hadn’t heard, she is the most-nominated Black actress in history, with four. And as she has shared, and I’m paraphrasing, if she’s getting nominated all the time, By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 07:22 am
