Books Intro for May 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s beach read season and there are few novelists right now who are better at giving beach read than Kevin Kwan whose new book, Lies and Weddings, was just released last week. You know the style if you’ve read the Crazy Rich Asians series. Yes, of By Lainey • May 28, 2024 10:07 am
What Else What Else? I’m not breaking any new ground when I say that Inside the NBA is the best sports panel show in the business, in any sport. Shaq, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson can obviously talk ball. But television is also entertainment, and this is LIVE entertainment, so from By Lainey • May 27, 2024 04:01 pm
Cannes 2024 Payal, Viola, and Elle More history happened in Cannes this weekend as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, the first Indian film in competition in 30 years, wins the Grand Prix, making Payal the first Indian female director to screen in Cannes and receive this honour…which was presented by Viola Davis, By Lainey • May 27, 2024 02:21 pm
Cannes 2024 Karla, Zoe, Selena, Adriana: The Best Cannes Actresses There’s been a lot of eyerolling at all the standing ovations in Cannes and how many minutes the ovations last for – so many and so often that the ovations have, arguably, become meaningless. That, however, is not the case for Jacques Audiard’s film Emilia Pérez which received a By Lainey • May 27, 2024 12:54 pm
Cannes 2024 Jesse Plemons is the Cannes Best Actor A couple of months ago I wrote about Jesse Plemons, the quality of work he’s delivered over the last few years, how every director seems to want him in their films, and how, even still, he remains known, primarily, as a “character actor” and not necessarily a “leading man” By Lainey • May 27, 2024 11:22 am
Eddie Vedder Bradley Cooper’s Weekend: Singing, Cooking, Dancing Bradley Cooper was at the BottleRock Food and Music Festival in Napa this weekend, technically for work. Coop is opening a cheesesteak joint in New York (we saw him doing the food truck thing a few months ago) and he was at the festival in his role as a culinary By Lainey • May 27, 2024 10:58 am
Cannes 2024 Intro for May 27, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Cannes Film Festival has concluded for another year. Sean Baker’s Anora won the Palme d’Or, the first American director to win the award since 2011 and the fifth Neon film in a row to win the highest honour at Cannes. Last year it was Anatomy By Lainey • May 27, 2024 09:01 am
Sports Jewel of the Week: Michelle Yeo’s necklace The annual Cannes amfAR gala was last night and it was a fashion parade, as usual. But the only look I care about isn’t clothing, it’s jewellery. With the clothing chosen to complement the jewels. And if we’re talking about celebrities and jewels, well, Michelle Yeoh is By Lainey • May 24, 2024 12:34 pm
Style LV in Barcelona On the women’s wear side, the two most high-profile Louis Vuitton ambassadors are probably Zendaya and Emma Stone. Neither one was in Barcelona yesterday for the presentation of Nicolas Ghesquiere’s latest cruise collection. Emma was just in Cannes last weekend for the world premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’s By Lainey • May 24, 2024 11:20 am
What Else What Else? The site is a bit lighter than usual today because this afternoon I had the honour of hosting the Reel Asian Film Festival’s 3rd annual Fire Horse Award luncheon recognising the achievements of Paul Wong. As Reel Asian’s Executive Director, Deanna Wong said: “In Paul Wong, the Fire By Lainey • May 23, 2024 04:00 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: Coming back to us now If you haven’t yet watched the first trailer for Celine Dion’s upcoming documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, let me just give you a heads up – you’re going to need some time to recover. I’m hosting a luncheon today, I’m about to leave in half an By Lainey • May 23, 2024 12:34 pm
Relationship Assumption JLo shimmers and scolds Jennifer Lopez was still in Mexico yesterday promoting her new Netflix movie, Atlas, premiering tomorrow. She and Simu Liu were at a press conference yesterday taking questions from fans and reporters when someone asked a question about her marriage. As you can see from the video below, Simu immediately jumps By Lainey • May 23, 2024 11:45 am
Top Reads Kelly Rowland: Back at the Palais Kelly Rowland was back on the carpet in Cannes last night, making her way up the red steps of the Palais, this time without incident and looking excellent in a dramatic white gown by Jean-Louis Sabaji. This after making headlines earlier in the week when an incident between her and By Lainey • May 23, 2024 11:03 am
Mad Men Intro for May 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, Rihanna makes headlines all the time, right? Well, it depends where she is. Viral, actually, depends where you are. If you are in the western part of the world, you might not know that Rihanna actually went viral this week. But if you are in the East, or By Lainey • May 23, 2024 09:16 am
What Else What Else? There are a lot of people who don’t like this dress that Aishwarya Rai wore in Cannes. Which… I don’t understand, and I’m not trying to be contrarian. This woman is a regular on that carpet, and she understands that Cannes is about excess and extra and By Lainey • May 22, 2024 04:08 pm
Gorgessity Anya Taylor-Joy wears a painting? Anya Taylor-Joy is on the final push for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opening this weekend. She’s been in New York this week doing press and yesterday stepped out in this amazing dress – I love a teacup cut, and I will never be mad at a high collar so By Lainey • May 22, 2024 11:35 am
