Chris Evans Chris Evans: Movies With Secrets I did not order the articles this way today on purpose, I SWEAR. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, never mind. Knives Out, directed by Rian Johnson, due out on November 27th. I saw this at TIFF – and I LOVED it. Every minute. I can’t By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 04:38 pm
Royals The Palace and a hot mic Duana and I are planning an upcoming episode of Show Your Work about The Morning Show. As I wrote last week, The Morning Show isn’t perfect – but it’s really, really watchable, it’s compelling, we burned through all of it FAST, and partly the reason we’re so By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 01:08 pm
Top Reads Angelina Jolie: Her Wild Identity Over the last few months, as she’s stepped back into the spotlight with the announcement that she’s part of Marvel’s Eternals and during promotion for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, it feels like we’ve been watching the rebirth of Angelina Jolie. She’s been more accessible than By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 11:33 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt here and there The Oscars are happening on February 9, 2020, about two weeks earlier than usual. This means that it’s a shorter award season and since the season is condensed, all contenders are stepping up their efforts – it’s going to be balls out from now until mid-December, when everyone goes By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 10:53 am
Christian Bale Matt Damon tells a story Ford vs Ferrari opens next week – Sarah reviewed the film in September at TIFF – and there are a lot of people who think it could be an Oscar contender, with both leads, Christian Bale and Matt Damon, submitted in the Best Actor category. Which means they’re going to head By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 10:07 am
Shout-Outs November 5, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs For Laisha Rosnau, the author of six books – congratulations on the release of your latest, Little Fortress, from a friend who sends along this message: "Laisha, you fierce woman! Congratulations on launching Little Fortress in Toronto and Hamilton this week! Love you forever, Nancy” For more on Laisha and By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 09:49 am
Music Intro for November 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big day for Selena Gomez yesterday. Her new song, “Lose You To Love Me”, topped the Billboard 100, the first #1 of her career. It’s not my favourite song (and it’s OK to have different preferences, Selenators – we are allowed to like what we like) but By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Remember what I said last week about Heidi Klum’s Halloween being overtaken by celebrities? Instagram has made it so that celebrities are all going ALL OUT for Halloween – and of course no family goes more ALL OUT than the Kardashians. I know the story here is that they photoshopped By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 04:39 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Hollywood Film Awards: Family, Friends, and Mentors The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 03:36 pm
Relationship Assumption Anna Wintour and …Bill Nighy? It was Anna Wintour’s 70th birthday yesterday. Page Six did a whole thing on what an enigma she still is and whether or not she really is as mean as she’s reputed to be and what her life is really like. Someone said she’s “Machiavellian”. Someone else By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Valentine’s Day with Issa and LaKeith The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, directed by Stella Meghie, comes out on Valentine’s Day. I will be seeing it on Valentine’s Day, not with my husband but probably with Kathleen, because this is the kind of movie you want to go to with someone who By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 11:47 am
Sports Prince Harry in the locker room Prince Harry was in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final this weekend between England and South Africa. There was also time on his schedule for him to meet with local schoolchildren. This moment of him interacting with a group of girls who told him he was handsome has By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 10:13 am
Royals Prince Andrew loses an aide Prince Andrew spent the weekend at the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, promoting his Pitch@Palace initiative. Here he is posing with Mr Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam. I’m including it because it reminds me of an email I got last week from a reader called Deborah who By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 09:22 am
Jane Fonda Intro for November 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jane Fonda was arrested again on Friday, the fourth week in a row. As we’ve seen in previous weeks, she was joined by guest stars – this time Catherine Keener and Rosanna Arquette. In a new interview with Jessica Goldstein for Vulture, Jane confirms that she has more By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 08:52 am
What Else What Else? Ten years ago, Heidi Klum used to be the Halloween authority. She goes all out for Halloween – elaborate costumes, hours of makeup, requiring weeks and weeks of planning. That was before Instagram. With Instagram, any and all celebrities are balls to the wall for Halloween, basically going to the same By Lainey • Nov 01, 2019 04:03 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Olivia Wilde I love this dress on Olivia Wilde so much that I’ve been worried the last couple of days that another great look would come along and then I’d have to choose. As it turns out, this week, there is in my opinion no outfit better than what Olivia By Lainey • Nov 01, 2019 01:55 pm
