Katie Holmes The Elevator Music of Actresses Two years ago this summer, Katie Holmes made a bold and calculated break from her marriage to Tom Cruise. Most cheered for her – she was the stoic and devoted single mom, he was the cuckoo, out-of-touch movie star. She moved to New York and didn’t say a lot, but By Maria • Jul 08, 2014 02:53 pm
TV Updates Supporting is the New Lead A few weeks ago, I emailed Lainey to complain – I do this a lot (mostly about Leo and Aaron Paul). This time was no different. It’s summer. I miss Breaking Bad. I miss it A LOT. Lainey responded with “Orange is the New Black” and yes, it’s great, By Maria • Jun 17, 2014 04:18 pm
Game of Thrones Sibling Sh-t: GOT Edition Lainey loves her Girl Sh-it and her Boy Sh-t, and I love Sibling Sh-t. It’s like Girl Sh-t and Boy Sh-t piled with childhood issues and family dynamics. Of course we’ve had our fair share of it lately (thanks, Solange!) but it doesn’t have to be so By Maria • Jun 05, 2014 10:47 am
Judgy Moms Gwyneth Cozies Up to Mommies Mother’s Day is this weekend and as we scramble for last-minute reservations and stress out about the slim pickings in the drugstore greeting card aisle, Gwyneth, via GOOP is all about Ending the Mommy Wars. She starts off her newsletter with her usual personal note and mentions how a By Maria • May 09, 2014 10:09 am
Assy Style The Art of Douchebag Dressing This week, Lainey wrote about celebrities being paid to dress like assholes (click here for a refresher), otherwise known as Coachella. It’s a mess – flower crowns, fringe boots (because why wouldn’t you wear suede boots in the desert?), floppy velvet hats - and I guess getting high and By Maria • Apr 10, 2014 10:48 am
Beverly Hills 90210 Get It Together, Kelly I loved Beverly Hills, 90210. I was around 11-years-old when the show premiered, so that kind of goes without saying, doesn’t it? But the endless 90s nostalgia is getting a little tiring – Kurt Cobain and Winona Ryder are one thing, but Candace Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar (both on By Maria • Apr 09, 2014 10:44 am
TV Updates Nicole Richie Back to Reality (TV) When Nicole Richie's AOL webseries #CandidlyNicole came out, I was all for it (see here and here for a refresher). At the time, I wrote that all the things that she's done in her career - bratty socialite, BFF of Ebola Hilton, fashion designer - are By Maria • Apr 01, 2014 03:08 pm
Judgy Moms It’s Getting Hard Out Here for A Goop It’s been a week of Conscious Uncoupling for Gwyneth – a phrase that has instantly entered the vernacular. How’s that for influential? With the news of the divorce, outlets are combing through every interview for signs of marriage trouble and obnoxious tidbits from Gwyneth (not hard to find). Regarding By Maria • Mar 28, 2014 02:54 pm
Media Manipulation No Photos Please (but Likes are Welcome) It’s been almost a month since Alec Baldwin “retired” from public life (click here for a refresher), so you knew he was going to pop up again soon. He can’t help himself. It’s part of his deranged charm. This week, Baldwin’s wife Hilaria posted a photo By Maria • Mar 20, 2014 10:24 am
Ashton Kutcher Two and a Half Morons I can’t take credit for this title – Roseanne came up with it first. Did you know Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are engaged? Of course you do, because she wore her ring to the Grove and both PEOPLE and Gossip Cop have confirmed with “inside sources” (the most official By Maria • Mar 04, 2014 06:09 pm
Jessica Alba Jessica Alba’s Drug Jessica Alba covers Nylon March issue and a few excerpts and photos have been released to PEOPLE Magazine. I love the picture of her in the plaid top and white blazer – I want those patchwork jeans so bad. (Jessica left stylist Brad Goreski for Emily Current and Meritt Elliott, founders By Maria • Feb 26, 2014 01:09 pm
Parent Pimps PEOPLE Magazine Grows A Pair (Sort of) Yes we are still talking about Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard – ironic considering that they want more privacy, no? Kristen is still aggressively tweeting media outlets with the #pedorazzi hashtag, because I guess encouraging your followers to incessantly tweet accounts that aren’t engaging back isn’t a form of By Maria • Feb 25, 2014 01:31 pm
Media Manipulation Give me the Kate Mara! It must be incredibly laborious to be a Mara sister. Being so aloof and self-possessed is not easy (for these two). I look at someone like Tilda Swinton, who is always the baddest bitch in the room, and it is easy for her. She’s just cool. Rooney and Kate By Maria • Feb 10, 2014 11:59 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Righteous Couple A few days ago, I wrote about a series of tweets by Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell calling for a boycott on magazines that buy photos of celebrity children (click here for a refresher). It made a lot of headlines, with some people taking up the cause for “save the By Maria • Jan 31, 2014 10:02 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Price of Mom Pimping When it comes to celebrity culture, 99% of celebrities will tell you what a scourge the paparazzi are – how they just can’t stand the attention and they want to go shopping at The Grove in peace, ok? This is what they say, but it’s not hard to spot By Maria • Jan 28, 2014 04:03 pm
Media Manipulation What the Fudge Celebrity collaborations and products have saturated the marketplace (perfume, cosmetics, clothing lines, accessories, hair care), but celebrity restaurants are not as prevalent as they used to be. Remember Madres (Jennifer Lopez), Nola (Britney Spears) and Geisha House (Ashton Kutcher and others)? It was very mid-2000s, like Ebola Hilton and Hyde By Maria • Jan 21, 2014 11:54 am
