Katy Perry Intro for June 15, 2017 Dear Gossips, It’s been a week now since Katy Perry released her new album, Witness. Witness will most likely get to #1 on the Billboard 200. But the reviews haven’t been great. Which might explain why it started at #1 on iTunes but then fell to #5 by By Lainey • Jun 15, 2017 10:22 am
What Else What Else? Sasha went on holiday, to a goop-approved destination and ran into a celebrity. Also why I hate camping and how relationships can be like slot machines on this week’s Sasha Answers. Michael K’s nickname for Cristiano Ronaldo will never not make me laugh. Also that bust, that bust By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-man: the third tour begins It was just 15 years ago that Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man was released. It was just 5 years ago that Andrew Garfield made his debut as Peter Parker. Spider-Man: Homecoming, now with Tom Holland, opens on July 7th. The press tour for Spider-Man’s third tour is underway, with Tom By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 03:23 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession RING THE ALARM!?!? OK, wait. Maybe don’t. But everyone’s talking about how The Twins might be here. It started yesterday because, according to several outlets, there was a major security team seen at UCLA Hospital. And someone told The Shade Room that the 5th floor of the hospital was being shut By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia’s legs… pre-50! Julia Roberts turns 50 in October. And this has become one of Duana’s favourite things to do this year – put on her Oprah voice and shout out, “Julia at 50!” Here’s Julia, pre-50, at a photo shoot in Malibu yesterday in just a blazer over stockinged legs. Those By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 12:33 pm
Maple Leaf Celine’s European summer It was about a year ago now that Celine Dion took over Paris Fashion Week, do you remember? Of course you remember. She sashayed out of that hotel every single day in one fabulous outfit after another – a word I use sparingly but she deserves it more than anyone else By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 10:57 am
Style Intro for June 14, 2017 Dear Gossips, Have you heard of “Sushi Face”? It’s an expression invented by Julianne Moore – and I just found out about it yesterday while catching up on my reading at the airport. Julianne was interviewed by Kathleen Hou for The Cut and “Sushi Face” is something she talked about By Lainey • Jun 14, 2017 10:07 am
What Else What Else? Cameron Diaz talked about why she’s taking a break from Hollywood at In Goop Health this weekend. I thought of Cam today when I was writing about Rough Night. Not that she’s been in exactly the same movie but is there a comparison to be made between The By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 04:01 pm
Problem Pants Johnny at the Brando Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 is, domestically, the lowest-grossing movie of the franchise so far. However it’s made over $460 million worldwide which is, internationally speaking, about the same as Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. That accounts for 77% of the movie’s total. So, based on the foreign By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 03:14 pm
TV Updates Do you miss Sandra Oh? In Shonda Rhimes’s book, Year Of Yes, she writes a lot about writing. She writes about where she writes (sometimes in the pantry), about how writing is never complete, about “laying track” for more writing. And she writes about the characters she’s written. The character she writes about By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All-female, back-to-back Scarlett Johansson and the cast of Rough Night were at the premiere last night in New York. And over in LA, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Emma Howard joined director Sofia Coppola for the premiere of The Beguiled. Rough Night opens this coming Friday. The Beguiled opens next By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 11:44 am
Hook Ups Still on: ScarJost It was first reported that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are happening after the season finale of SNL. Colin was just asked about their hookup last weekend. He had no comment. There was no joke deflection, he wasn't all like, "the press makes up the craziest stories! By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 10:58 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for June 13, 2017 Dear Gossips, Oprah talked me into work today. She’s on this week’s episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, “the first podcast to which she has ever granted a wide-ranging interview”. The exclusive is described so specifically because of course she was interviewed last year on By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Is anyone else bristling at the use of the word “my” here? “My new TV show.” It’s not like Lindsay Lohan is standing beside two no-names either. It’s not like these two men haven’t had success. In fact, she’s the one, in between them, who probably By Lainey • Jun 12, 2017 04:49 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the difference between JLO and Tom Cruise I put avocado on my burgers. Duana thinks this is like going to the farmer’s market. I object to that comparison. She also tried to tell me that hipsters come from California. No one has time to do population forensics on the location origin of hipsters and it doesn’ By Lainey • Jun 12, 2017 04:10 pm
BFFs Jessica Chastain’s wedding Jessica Chastain married Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo this weekend at his family’s estate, Villa Tiepolo Passi, in Treviso. According to PEOPLE they made prosecco on the property. And it’s been in the family for centuries. Gian Luca is Italian aristocracy. Jessica is Hollywood aristocracy. It’s never By Lainey • Jun 12, 2017 02:27 pm
