Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Zendaya’s furry feather pants If this were dress, I think I wouldn’t like it as much. Actually, if this were anyone else, like, say, Penelope Cruz, who’s done the feather thing so many f-cking times, I would probably hate it. This, however, is not dress and it’s also not Penelope, it’ By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 11:27 am
TV Updates Style by Li’l Baby Aidy (Do It On My) Twin Bed is probably one of Duana’s favourite Saturday Night Live sketches in recent years. That sketch – and other girl group sketches like it – was co-written by Aidy Bryant aka Li’l Baby Aidy, who’s just been profiled in The Cut and if you By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 11:06 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Stella’s pearly dress I would be nervous wearing this dress with all these pearls. Of course they’re not real. But they’re still hazards, non? Like they could easily catch on something? Also… is it heavy? No matter, I’m into it all the same. It’d be worth the risk. Not By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 10:23 am
Music Taylor Swift redirects Most headlines about Taylor Swift yesterday, just three days before the release of reputation, were about how she tried to legally intimidate a blogger and ended up getting scolded by the ACLU. As Spencer Kornhaber wrote yesterday for The Atlantic, this was a consequence of her “anti-PR campaign”. Taylor has By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:47 am
Douchebags Ed Westwick under investigation Kristina Cohen shared on Facebook earlier this week that three years ago, she was at Ed Westwick’s house and he allegedly raped her. When I posted about this yesterday, Ed had yet to respond. He eventually did. And this is what he said: A post shared by Ed Westwick By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:26 am
Intro for November 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, A year ago today, people were making predictions. One major prediction. That prediction didn’t happen, and it sucked. I’m going to do what we did a year ago today on this site – which is make another kind of prediction. That prediction ended up coming true. And By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 08:00 am
What Else What Else? Yesterday I posted about Ben Affleck and how he’s looking at his own behaviour and pledging to support more women in the industry after being connected to Harvey Weinstein. Now he’s saying he’s donating his Weinstein-associated earnings to charity. Some of those earnings are from Good Will By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 04:29 pm
Douchebags Chuck Bass too? Like I said yesterday, at this point we need a Daily Sexual Harassment/Abuse/Assault Roundup. Some of the offenders are very powerful men. Some of them are moderately powerful men. Others are relatively powerful. And even B/C list stars are predators. Not all men, sure. But, at the By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous Joe for Prada Joe Alwyn is the new face of Prada’s Ascension campaign. Aptly named, non? A year ago Joe was the rising star lead of Ang Lee’s overhyped and underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which was supposed to be an Oscar contender with new technology and camera work, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:50 am
Music Taylor Swift: release week drama Taylor Swift’s new album, reputation, is out on Friday. So far she’s released four songs. I’m not super into any of them. But she’s already pre-sold 400,000 units of the album, and it’s Target’s biggest music pre-sale of all time. As of now, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:09 am
Harvey Weinstein Intro for November 7, 2017 Dear Gossips, Do you listen to the Bill Simmons Podcast? I go in and out of it, depending on the guest. Last week his guest was Janice Min, now Co-President and Chief Creative Officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group and formerly the editor of US Weekly, in its prime. By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 08:01 am
What Else What Else? There are very few upsides to having food-motivated dogs, like mine. One of those upsides though is that they will leave the park if you ask them if they are hungry. They know the word hungry so well we have to spell it. When they hear the word “hungry” they By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer & Margot: one hairstyle, two campaigns Did you see mother!? The movie with the dumbest punctuation of the year? It was meant to be Darren Aronofsky’s big deep artistic mindf-ck. Whatever. I thought it was a film student’s first film. And I found all the conversations around it, about how profound it all was, By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Elizabeth Olsen’s LACMA tuxedo I’m never going to be mad at a woman in a tuxedo at a gala. Especially when it fits so beautifully and is so obviously well-constructed. Elizabeth Olsen is wearing Dolce & Gabbana. No, it’s not the most original tuxedo we’ve ever seen. Satin lapels are pretty By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 03:11 pm
Break Ups Mimi unmanaged Mariah Carey and her manager, Stella Bulochnikov, have broken up. They’re not calling it a breakup though. They’re saying they’re just changing their business arrangement. Here’s the official statement, from Stella, per Variety: “After working together for almost three years, Mariah Carey and Stella Bulochnikov have By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 01:42 pm
Douchebags Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, and more shady connections I briefly considered titling this post “The Daily Sexual Harassment Roundup”. But I worried that that would seem insensitive. And I don’t want to be insensitive. I want to make a point that this is what’s happening now: that the list of sexual harassers and predators in Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 01:20 pm