Amazingness Hugh Grant’s glorious misery It was six years ago, during the Golden Globes, that LaineyGossip became a Hugh Grant fansite. Duana was the one who wrote the post back in 2018 during our Globes coverage – Hugh was there as a presenter, his job was to introduce Dunkirk, one of that year’s nominees, after By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 12:57 pm
Style Angelina non-stop It’s been non-stop promotion for Angelina Jolie over the last three months as we’ve seen her promote Maria the way others might promote a Marvel/Disney tentpole – only with a muuuuuuch smaller budget. From Venice to Telluride to Toronto to New York to London and LA and, this By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, The most extra press tour, a press tour for and by theatre kids, has resulted in a major box office win. Wicked opened in North America with $114 million at the box office (to Gladiator II’s $55.5 million) and now holds the record for the biggest By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 09:20 am
Sports Polo: Succession on horseback? And I was just saying the other day that we’d yet to see a trailer for Polo, the docuseries about the sport produced by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Polo starts streaming on Netflix on December 10 and here it is, a preview of what to expect from the By Lainey • Nov 22, 2024 10:55 am
Music Intro for November 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, This is Shaboozey at the CMA Awards last night where his fashion theme of the night was green. Repping Elphaba at the country show? He wore a mint green suit on the red carpet, with tricked out Crocs, lol. And then on stage for his performance it was By Lainey • Nov 21, 2024 09:38 am
What Else What Else? At this point in his career, Denzel Washington can say whatever he wants. Who is ever going to step to him? Certainly not Kevin Spacey. Denzel’s Esquire interview is pure no f-cks given. He is so candid about his childhood, his vices, the Oscars, and yes, watching Kevin Spacey By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 04:02 pm
Style Paul Mescal: GRWM Paul Mescal is in New York today for a final push before Gladiator II opens on Friday. I have talked repeatedly over the last few weeks about how much I’m enjoying Paul Mescal on this press tour, specifically the way he’s embracing his big Movie Star moment. Paul, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 01:33 pm
BFFs A Campaign of Friends It’s the final award season push of 2024 for the next three weeks as we get closer to the holidays when Hollywood temporarily shuts down before coming back to business for the Golden Globes on January 5. This means premieres and parties almost every single night and it also By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 11:25 am
TV Updates Intro for November 20, 2024 Dear Gossips, As noted in What Else? earlier this week, there’s a lot going on in Vancouver lately. The Grey Cup just happened this past weekend; Taylor Swift will be there for three shows to close out The Eras Tour in early December. The city will host the Invictus By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 09:23 am
What Else What Else? Kathleen’s piece on Danielle Deadwyler is, as usual, excellent. So good that she pulls off a comparison to Viola Davis… and what she’s saying here is that Danielle should be the frontrunner for Oscar Best Supporting Actress this year. I know better than to argue with Kathleen. (Refinery By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 04:15 pm
Style Nicole Kidman: “Meme me as much you want” I f-cking love Nicole Kidman’s new interview, written by Ben Allen, with British GQ so much it might be one of my pop culture highlights of the year. Of course the part of the interview that’s getting the most play is what she says when she’s asked By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Timmy found Bob Through this entire year in the Best Actor Oscar race, everyone’s been leaving a spot open for Timothée Chalamet. He’s widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation. He’s already been nominated for Oscar – and that was six years ago! – it’s only By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 10:01 am
Shout-Outs November 19, 2024 – Shout-Outs Andrea! Happy Birthday from Virginia who tells me you’re “surprisingly into BTS”. Girl, I’m not surprised. Once you go Bangtan, you can never go back. And since you’re so into Jungkook, I’m assuming you have December 3 circled on the calendar? Also, as predicted, that Timothée By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 09:35 am
Music Intro for November 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Last summer Marcello Hernandez was featured as one of the stars in Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue alongside, among others, Sabrina Carpenter. I wrote about it at the time, calling him “my beloved” after a breakout season on SNL last year, hoping that he wouldn’t By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 09:07 am
What Else What Else? Prince Harry was in Vancouver last night for the Grey Cup. I always like seeing him in a three-quarter length jacket, he looked good. The purpose of the visit was to the promote the upcoming Invictus Games. And it was a major get for TSN because he showed up at By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 04:02 pm
Style Oscar Futures In today’s previous two posts about last night's Governors Awards, Sarah posted about the 90s representation in contention for Oscars this year, and also some of the “overdue” candidates who are part of this year’s race. This post is about Oscar future, mostly those who have By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 01:30 pm
