What Else What Else? I posted earlier about Viola Davis and Issa Rae and what the NAACP Image Awards means to the Black community. They expressed that sentiment through words… and fashion. The looks at this event were show-stopping, the best we’ve seen through award season. Because that’s how you show up By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Two Sides of Noah Centineo Did you see everyone talking about Noah Centineo a few days ago? That was the intention all along when he and his trainer posted videos and photos of him in the gym and how he’s transformed his body. Noah has been getting into superhero shape. And, well, he’s By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 02:23 pm
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
