What Else What Else? PROGRAMMING NOTE: Today is our last posting day of the week ahead of Labour Day weekend. We will be dark Thursday and Friday as our team is taking two extra days to rest; because starting on Tuesday, we probably won’t be getting much rest as Sarah and I will By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 04:17 pm
Style Winona in Venice The Venice Film Festival opening gala was tonight. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is being featured and there were a lot of stars in the attendance but when Winona Ryder’s on the red carpet, she’ll always be my main character. Isn’t this the most Winona premiere outfit, like, ever? She’ By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 02:22 pm
Business of Hollywood A New Deal for New Heights Let me do that annoying thing where I quote myself and it’ll be especially irritating because I’m doing it off the top of a post. Back in early July, after Travis Kelce joined Taylor Swift on stage at Wembley and he talked about it later on the New By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Demi’s pre-Midnight Madness Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley were in London last night for a screening of their film, The Substance. The Substance premiered in Cannes back in May and as I wrote at the time, even before her 13-minute standing ovation, there was buzz about this movie and Demi’s performance in By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:59 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday this space was dedicated to the DNC production team’s Show Your Work in how they put together a political event that was also a four-day television miniseries. We’re sticking with that today because Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, aka the showrunner and director, did an By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:16 am
What Else What Else? Venice opens tomorrow and ten years ago, Birdman was at the festival and would go on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Michael Keaton and Emma Stone were on the carpet to kick off their award season run; she wore green velvet Valentino, a gorgeous dress against her red By Lainey • Aug 27, 2024 04:18 pm
Style Angelina: Maria and TIFF The Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and one of the most highly anticipated premieres is happening on Thursday – Pablo Larraín’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie, will screen there before Telluride, and for months people have been saying that Angelina’s performance in the film could be nominated for an By Lainey • Aug 27, 2024 01:26 pm
Break Ups Ben Affleck: Kick or No Kick? As noted yesterday in my post about the changing Bennifer narrative, Page Six first broke the story on the weekend that Ben Affleck has been spending time with Kick Kennedy and they may have been hanging out since June. Which would suggest that he had no interest in making it By Lainey • Aug 27, 2024 12:00 pm
Relationship Assumption Meryl & Marty: Holding Hands…but no sleepover As Sarah wrote last week, we are all shipping Meryl Streep and Martin Short. That was in her post on Friday with photos of them at the premiere, and Marty and Meryl both have said they are just friends, not dating, even though we’ve all been speculating about it By Lainey • Aug 27, 2024 11:25 am
Kamala Harris Intro for August 27, 2024 Dear Gossips, In my TV colleagues group chat last Thursday, the final night of the Democratic National Convention, most of the messages my friends and I were sending back and forth were about whether or not Beyoncé would show up. As we saw, in the end, what showed up was By Lainey • Aug 27, 2024 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Media isn’t easy for celebrities. Some are better at it than others, and some try hard but flop because, well, either the music isn’t good or the movie isn’t good or the message isn’t good and/or all of the above. See, for example, Katy Perry. By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 04:27 pm
Jenna Ortega A “Taste” of Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet came out last week, like a lot of other people, I had it in rotation all weekend, and it’s expected to contend for #1 on the album charts next week, right before Labour Day weekend, an end of summer vibe, no skips. By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 03:04 pm
Break Ups The Un-Bennifering Up until quite recently, the unravelling of Bennifer V2.0 has been excruciatingly slow, but also, for the most part, relatively civil. At least on Jennifer Lopez’s part. The reporting about her, and what a pain in the ass it was to be married to her, was no doubt By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 02:35 pm
Ryan Reynolds Taylor and all her friends Taylor Swift wrapped up the European leg of her tour in London last week and that led to all kinds of frenzied speculation about whether or not she and/or Beyoncé would show up at the Democratic National Convention. In the end, we were all clowns. Taylor returned home to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 12:35 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for August 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in February, around Lunar New Year, I wrote a post at The Squawk about the Year of the Dragon and Red String Theory. This particular Year of the Dragon is also known in Chinese culture as a Widow Year (it has to do with calendar math and By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 09:11 am
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy’s killer return Here’s Anya Taylor-Joy out for lunch with a friend yesterday in LA. It’s a perfect summer lunch outfit – striped belted shirt over shorts and flats, Dior tote, and headphones. Proper headphones. It makes me happy to see others who prefer headphones over earbuds because as I’ve said By Lainey • Aug 23, 2024 11:21 am
