Amazingness I like Spider-Man very much Sarah wrote yesterday about the new Spider-Man clip that aired during the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Sunday. About how cute and nerdy Tom Holland and his friend, Jacob Batalon, are together. They are, indeed, really, really cute. And I am getting really, really excited to see this movie. By Lainey • May 09, 2017 10:31 am
Music Intro for May 9, 2017 Dear Gossips, Wait…!? How is it that we haven’t talked yet about How To Make Lemonade? F-cking MET Gala! Last week, Beyoncé announced the upcoming release of the Lemonade box set, How To Make Lemonade. Here’s the product description from her website: The How To Make Lemonade Box By Lainey • May 09, 2017 09:38 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Make Brad Pitt Great Again That Brad Pitt piece in GQ – as I wrote last week, this was a solid appeal to the base. But if you’re not part of the base… were you rolling your eyes? Duana and I go through the eye-rolly parts. And those eye rolls brought us to “Make Brad By Lainey • May 08, 2017 04:38 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan’s weekend at polo Last week, when I wrote about Prince Philip’s retirement announcement and the initial speculation that it might be a Prince Harry engagement, I mentioned that these things, they happen on a schedule. Harry has been observing the royal schedule his entire life. And if he cares about Meghan as By Lainey • May 08, 2017 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No MET but Cannes? Given this year’s MET Gala theme honouring Rei Kawakubo and Comme Des Garcons, it would have been great to see FKA twigs’s interpretation. She and Robert Pattinson were there in 2015 and 2016 but skipped last week – or they weren’t invited…? Anna Wintour reportedly wanted to keep By Lainey • May 08, 2017 02:56 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Hailee’s lavender cutouts This is not an easy colour. In certain situations, it’s actually a super corny colour. Corny. Or tacky. The way Hailee Steinfeld’s wearing it here? I’m gonna say it’s a corny-tacky combination. Mall at the prom. What you’d like to be forgiven for the first By Lainey • May 08, 2017 12:33 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Tracee’s sequined patches Sasha emailed me last night freaking out about Tracee Ellis Ross’s look at the MTV Movie and TV Awards last night. It’s her “favourite for all of 2017”. I like it too, though I’m not sure I would say it’s my favourite for the entire year By Lainey • May 08, 2017 11:58 am
Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Paltrow’s “smart” kitchen It’s been almost a week since Gwyneth Paltrow showed up at the MET Gala and decided not to participate – in my opinion because, as a member of the establishment, she cannot and refuses to represent the counterculture as it would undermine the status quo, which exists in her favour. By Lainey • May 08, 2017 11:42 am
TV Updates Chris Pine, “The Boy Is Mine” On Friday in Smutty Tingles, I wrote about my unexpectedly high expectations for Chris Pine hosting Saturday Night Live after seeing him get loose in the promo. Before that, in no world would I have imagined looking forward to Chris Pine on SNL. And then he delivered! I’ll go By Lainey • May 08, 2017 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Moonlight kiss In my earlier post about Emma Watson and how MTV has gone gender neutral with their acting awards, I wondered about the impact – specifically whether or not this kind of decision will encourage diversity in storytelling and diversity in storytellers, creating more opportunities for women in the industry. The MTV By Lainey • May 08, 2017 09:29 am
Emma Watson Emma Watson makes history MTV announced a few weeks ago that for the first time in history, the acting categories at the MTV Movie and TV Awards would be based on performance only, not separated by sex. Last night Emma Watson became the first to win the Best Actor in a Movie award. Others By Lainey • May 08, 2017 08:25 am
Intro for May 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, Here in Canada, The Handmaid’s Tale airs on Sundays on Bravo. The first two episodes premiered last week – the network’s most watched series premiere in 5 years. In the US it was the most watched series premiere on Hulu. It is the show everyone is talking By Lainey • May 08, 2017 07:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper’s only appearance Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 opens today. Sarah reviewed it yesterday and prefers it to the first movie. It’s generally well-liked by other critics too. So the question isn’t whether or not it will be big. It’s about HOW big. As in how many millions over By Lainey • May 05, 2017 11:48 am
Mariah Carey Intro for May 5, 2017 Dear Gossips, Last night in Vancouver, a group of mothers slept outside on the cold pavement in support of at-risk and homeless youth. Fifty moms participated in The Sleep Out: Mothers Edition to send a message to “young people that they are worthy of unconditional love and absolute respect, and By Lainey • May 05, 2017 10:21 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp: earpieces and sound engineers One of the first headlines I saw in my feed this morning was from the Telegraph: Earpieces, islands, and eccentricities: is Johnny Depp slowly morphing into Marlon Brando? Um, obviously it was an immediate click. Yes, I want to read this. In fact, I think I NEED to read this. By Lainey • May 04, 2017 04:54 pm
Maple Leaf ALL THE FEELINGS, ALL THE SONGS Sorry. I don’t mean to yell at you with the capitals. But… the only way I can convey my feelings or, more specifically, the feelings that Celine Dion is allowing me to feel IS BY SHOUTING AT YOU WITH THESE WORDS. You thought we were done with Celine at By Lainey • May 04, 2017 03:41 pm
