Books The Book of Drew Drew Barrymore just turned 40 and has announced she’s going to write a collection of autobiographical essays. This is usually that point at which I’d piss and moan about celebrities who slip into any profession on a whim, but, um, I love a personal essay. And I think By Maria • Feb 26, 2015 12:35 pm
Break Ups But What Does Amal Think? Ellen Barkin is single again after breaking up with her fiancé, Ben Emmerson, a human rights attorney who works with Amal Clooney. Here’s the setting: they met at the Alamuddin-Clooney wedding extravaganza in Venice. Could there be a hotter hookup scenario? She’s a saucy and gorgeous movie star, By Maria • Feb 20, 2015 03:02 pm
TV Updates Saul, I think I love you Obviously I was a huge Breaking Bad fan, and as much as it stressed me out, I miss writing the recaps as it made my love for, and understanding of, the show that much deeper. But I wasn’t super excited about Better Call Saul; a prequel spin-off seems like By Maria • Feb 18, 2015 11:07 am
Models First rule of the Pussy Posse You do not talk about the Pussy Posse. This week was the launch party for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue which apparently is still a thing – print lives! At the party, a very enterprising journalist from Cosmopolitan posed an important anthropological question to several models: Has Leo ever hit on By Maria • Feb 13, 2015 12:18 pm
BFFs Mila Kunis is Cool Girl Mila Kunis is currently promoting hot mess Jupiter Ascending and is dutifully doing the talk show rounds – I wrote about her appearance on Ellen here. Yesterday she was on Reddit for an AMA and she definitely has a twinkle. She’s sharp, she’s funny and there isn’t a By Maria • Feb 06, 2015 03:13 pm
Bitch please Lights, Camera, Pretention! Sometimes when I’m in mixed company and people ask what I do, I get some flack for being an entertainment writer. Usually it’s from men, and it’s always a bit of a condescending take: entertainment news is shallow, it’s silly to like gossip, tabloids are for By Maria • Feb 06, 2015 01:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ashton's private but public love note for Mila Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (the Kutchers?) are always telling us how private they are – they issued a baby photo montage when their daughter was born and like to talk about privacy. And how much they dislike the paparazzi, because they just want to be left in peace (courtside at By Maria • Feb 03, 2015 03:50 pm
Media Manipulation Is Bey Going Goop On Us? Have you read, I’ll Have What She’s Having? The author, Rebecca Harrington, experiments with different celebrity diets, from Marilyn Monroe (eggs whipped in milk) to Madonna’s arduous and seemingly impossible macrobiotic diet. It’s funny, yes, but also an illuminating look at what it takes to maintain By Maria • Feb 02, 2015 04:40 pm
Media Manipulation Beige is the New Grey Dakota Johnson covers the new issue of VOGUE in anticipation of Fifty Shades Of Grey’s February release. It will be one of many interviews and photos we see of her, but this is certainly a showpiece of her promotional push. I mean, it’s VOGUE, right? Before we get By Maria • Jan 21, 2015 10:11 am
Media Manipulation Kevin Hart's character selection Kevin Hart’s The Wedding Ringer was supposed to open big – it would have been his fourth #1 but as it stands, American Sniper is exceeding expectations and Paddington is being bolstered by fantastic reviews (like Sarah’s here). So Kevin has to settle for a slim #2 which, if By Maria • Jan 20, 2015 11:10 am
TV Updates We should have loved you more Coming off Amy Poehler’s last year as co-host of the Golden Globes, I keep reminding myself that Parks And Recreation is in its final run, and I need to set my PVR. I have watched the show since the first season, when Leslie Knope was just a female Michael By Maria • Jan 14, 2015 12:38 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession The Baby Bank Out of OK! Magazine (yes, consider the source) comes a story that Blake Lively will be launching a new arm of her website aimed at moms, Preserve Baby. It’s no surprise, seeing as Preserve is e-commerce and she’s included maternity products and children quite prominently in the posts By Maria • Jan 05, 2015 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gang’s All Here About 11 months ago I wrote about the impending Entourage movie and at the time, this was my plot prediction: "Vince is happily married to the reporter he met at the end of the final season – they have 4 kids. Eric is now a big player in Hollywood, Johnny By Maria • Dec 24, 2014 12:39 pm
Justin Bieber Behind the Music Do you think Selena and Justin will reunite for the holidays? You know how it is – a “Merry Xmas” text turns into a Christmas tree emoji and the next thing you know they’re making plans to meet for New Year’s Eve. That’s how these two work, and By Maria • Dec 22, 2014 03:59 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ashton the Dadsplainer Between the Sony hack and the Golden Globes nominations (and snubs), it’s been a great week for gossip. So why are we talking about Ashton Kutcher? Oh, right, because he had a baby. Ashton was on Ellen (what was he promoting – the end of his sh-tty ass sexist stupid By Maria • Dec 12, 2014 03:10 pm
Weddings Scarlett Can Keep A Secret A-list actress, a baby and a wedding – this makes for some seriously headline click-bait for most websites. But today, a Monday after a sleepy US Thanksgiving weekend, there’s a story buried on PEOPLE about Scarlett Johansson possibly marrying Romain Dauriac (via NY Post). Details are scarce, as in there By Maria • Dec 01, 2014 03:29 pm
