Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 25, 2017 Dear Gossips, Today is #BellLetsTalk Day, raising awareness and support for mental health initiatives. Since 2010, when Bell Let’s Talk started, Bell has donated almost $80 million to mental health programs. $80 million! The goal is to reach at least $100 million through 2020. So, today, Bell will donate By Lainey • Jan 25, 2017 09:10 am
Amazingness Nicole pays her respects These photos are amazing, non? Paris Fashion Week. Armani Privé front row. Isabelle Huppert and Nicole Kidman in the front row, both nominated today for Oscars. Nicole Kidman bending to kiss the hand. Of the Queen? We’ll find out in a month. As Sarah posted earlier, Isabelle Huppert has By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 05:08 pm
Music The worst song gets nominated This was not unexpected. I mean, we all knew it was going to happen. We’ve been bracing ourselves for it to happen for weeks now, not that that takes away any of the ugh, f-ck, why of the situation. Justin Timberlake has been nominated for an Oscar for his By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 04:37 pm
Weddings Kirsten’s confirmation News broke a couple of weeks ago that Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are engaged. She’s been seen since, in pap shots, with a ring on, or hiding it, but there’s no official confirmation. Kirsten is in Paris for Fashion Week, front row at Ralph & Russo. And, By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 04:09 pm
Mel Gibson Not yet, Annette, not yet Amy Remember last year when Leonardo DiCaprio was on the award circuit for The Revenant how the storyline was all what a travesty it was that he didn’t have an Oscar. Leo’s due! It’s his time! Like somehow he, Leonardo DiCaprio, LEONARDO DICAPRIO!, was hard done by. Forty By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 01:13 pm
Media Manipulation Angelina’s fragrance Guerlain announced yesterday that Angelina Jolie will be the global “icon” of their new fragrance for women, Mon Guerlain. It’s her first beauty campaign in almost a decade – a deal with Shiseido for ads that ran only in Asia. The partnership with Guerlain started when she was directing First By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney Tom Hardy Look! Tom Hardy in mouse ears! Tom was at Disneyland, Paris today for the launch of Star Wars: Season Of The Force. Which is interesting because there are rumours that he makes a cameo in the next Star Wars, opening in December. Yesterday they revealed that the official title is By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 10:38 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, Oscar nominations. La La Land ties All About Eve and Titanic for the most nominations of all time with 14. Which means the backlash is coming, if it hasn’t arrived already. If the nominations are any indication, the Oscars will come down to La La Land vs By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 09:54 am
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Paparazzi and Morning TV Chrissy Teigen was at the Women’s March in DC on Saturday as Duana and I were recording the latest episode of our Show Your Work podcast. She was making headlines the day before for tweeting about an encounter she’d had with a paparazzo who used a racist slur By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 04:35 pm
Beyoncé Miss Tina in the New York Times Did you read the Tina Knowles Lawson profile in the New York Times this weekend? I probably don’t have to say this but Miss Tina, as she likes to be called, is the mother of the Beyoncé and Solange. As noted in the piece, Miss Tina’s daughters “became By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 03:20 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Selena, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber Last weekend, Justin Bieber stepped out in LA and managed to refrain from commenting on Selena Gomez and The Weeknd…which I appreciated. Lesson learned. Give them the benefit of the doubt and they will sh-t on your faith. Two days later, TMZ was reporting from JB’s sources how By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 12:18 pm
Blind Riddles Deflate the face There’s all kinds of work to be done before starting on a movie. In addition to preparing for the role, many roles require the actor to get into shape physically. Your first assumption here is to think that means working out. Most of the time. Some of the time By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mudbound 2018? At Sundance, back in 2012, Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to win Best Director for her film Middle Of Nowhere. Two years later, she directed Selma, which was the first film directed by a black woman to be nominated for Best Picture, though she was not nominated for By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 10:16 am
Photo Assumption Elizabeth Olsen undercover But first… can we play Photo Assumption with these pictures of Elizabeth Olsen with Jeremy Renner at Sundance this weekend while promoting their film Wind River? That’s exactly the guy I’ve always thought Jeremy Renner to be. We all know a guy kinda like this, non? Who drops By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 09:38 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart is ready for Saturday Night Live At the height of the Twilight hysteria, I remember hearing from Twi-Hards who desperately wanted to see either Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson host Saturday Night Live. Taylor Lautner did it. But, until now, neither one of the two leads were given the opportunity or accepted the opportunity, although they By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 08:39 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, WOMAN. WOMEN. Sometimes, and too often lately, there are things you want to unsee and unknow. On Saturday though, it was a privilege to be alive, to see what was possible when, as Anne Helen Petersen wrote in Buzzfeed, “women plan(ned) ahead, read directions, and (got) sh-t By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 08:01 am
