Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer & Jessica Chastain show their work Octavia Spencer told a really great Show Your Work story at Sundance this week. Octavia and Jessica Chastain are good friends. Over a year ago, Jessica reached out to Octavia because she wanted them to do a movie together. During those discussions, they talked about pay equity and how men By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 10:14 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 25, 2018 Dear Gossips, The thing about being brave is that the people who end up being brave probably would prefer to not be put in the position to have to be brave in the first place. When you are brave, you are “ready to endure danger or pain”. Nobody wakes up By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Yesterday I mentioned that Sasha and I were planning to record a new episode of Sasha Answers tonight and post for tomorrow. Her husband Cory just got his appendix out so this isn’t going to happen. We’ll let you know soon when we can podcast. Sorry about the By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 05:09 pm
TV Updates Natalie Portman: Instagram, Tennis, SNL When Natalie Portman joined Instagram a few weeks ago, Maria observed in Smutty Social Media that her handle was @nportmanofficial because a fan account had already taken @natalieportman. Natalie Portman’s official Instagram is now @natalieportman. So either the fan voluntarily gave that up or was compensated for giving it By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 04:54 pm
Style Yara & Chanel It’s Paris Fashion Week right now. Chanel presented yesterday. And Yara Shahidi was there, wearing Chanel, of course, and pair of plastic boots which look great on her but that’s because she’s Yara. These are not boots for everyone, Karl. Speaking of Karl, Yara is obviously on By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #CMBYN in Rome Call Me By Your Name premiered a year ago, an entire year ago, at Sundance to great acclaim and immediate Oscar talk. The film, however, steadily lost momentum through the fall and yesterday ended up with four Oscar nominations in total: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 11:10 am
Award Season Campaigning Allison Janney wasn’t sleeping It’s tradition on Oscar nomination morning to hear about how the nominees reacted to their nominations. Some release statements and those make headlines. And, over the years, we’ve become accustomed to the story that they were sleeping. That their moms or their agents woke them up. That their By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 09:56 am
Amazingness Intro for January 24, 2018 Dear Gossips, Please tell me you’ve seen Tiffany Haddish’s episode of Drunk History. It aired last night. If you haven’t, your morning is about to be as delightful as it was yesterday when Tiffany announced the Oscar nominees. I lost my mind at her assessment of Hitler’ By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Heads up: Sasha and I are recording the next episode of Sasha Answers tomorrow night. It’ll be posted on Thursday! Why are we talking about the next Bond when Daniel Craig hasn’t even started shooting his final Bond? There are a lot of people who want to be By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 04:51 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé is planning Beyoncé has been pretty quiet this year so far. She was quiet last year around this time too, remember? We heard nothing from Beyoncé in 2017 until…. Febuary 1, 2017. The first day of Black History Month. Also the day she set the record for most likes on Instagram. You By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 02:13 pm
Award Season Campaigning No James Franco James Franco was not nominated for Best Actor Oscar this morning. And it’s not like he had an outside chance. Many experts, up to two weeks ago (and even still yesterday), had James on their prediction lists believing that most Academy members had voted before James’s sexual harassment By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 12:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Mary J Blige makes history The first part of the Oscar nominations this morning, when they announced many of the technical categories, featured vignettes to highlight the work that goes into editing and sound and costuming and cinematography etc. Each vignette was fronted by a woman, a diverse range of women beginning with Gal Gadot By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 11:02 am
Amazingness Tiffany Haddish wakes up the Oscars The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. And we’ll get to that through the day. But we have to start with Tiffany Haddish who, along with Andy Serkis, was invited by the Academy to call out the nominations. Please, I’m begging you. If you weren’t watching, get By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 09:55 am
TV Updates Taylor Kitsch’s press day Waco, the miniseries, will premiere tomorrow night on Paramount Network (formerly Spike). Taylor Kitsch plays David Koresh and, as Sarah noted when she wrote about the trailer a few months ago, this is hopefully the role that will break Taylor Kitsch out of his post-FNL funk. Did you watch Manhunt: By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 08:50 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 23, 2018 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in my post about Tracee Ellis Ross at the SAGs, and how she nailed it when she talked about “agency” and “shoes” in the show open, efficiently articulating that women can have agency and shoes and be both and so many other things, I also mentioned Laverne By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 07:58 am
What Else What Else? Remember how Justin Timberlake would be nothing if he wasn’t the NSYNC member who was dating the very famous, mega superstar Britney Spears? Remember how he has pretty much risen to where he is by stepping on women? Like Britney and Janet Jackson? Now he’s talking some sh-t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 03:17 pm
