Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media Thursday, March 12, 2015 Blue Steel, Ian Somerhalder edition. There isn’t an ounce of irony or humour here, though. This guy is on the radio all over the country right now-here's the schedule... 8:40AM- LIVE Interview with WPSG-TV (Philadelphia) 8:45AM w/ Ukee & Erika 8:50AM- LIVE By Maria • Mar 12, 2015 03:40 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, Wednesday March 11, 2015 Demi Lovato considers herself the luckiest woman in the world. So, um, good for her. Yeah so um....... This is mine.....?!!?!! 😱❤️🔥 Took this without him knowing.. #sorrynotsorry #RIPFez #luckiestwomanintheworldrighthere ✋😍😍😍 A photo posted by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) onMar 11, 2015 at 9:35am PDT This photo is 3 days old, which By Maria • Mar 11, 2015 04:29 pm
Music The Life and Times of Rihanna Deadline is reporting that Peter Berg will direct an upcoming feature documentary on Rihanna. They know each other from Battleship, and we know Peter from Friday Night Lights (and more). Friday Night Rihanna, oh my God. Rihanna, for me, is the pop star of her generation but she also embodies By Maria • Mar 11, 2015 02:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Zoolander has already broken the internet today – click here to read Lainey’s post from earlier. The thing that I love about Zoolander is I don’t think all of these people are in on the joke. Remove Owen and Ben’s famous faces and this could be a legit By Maria • Mar 10, 2015 03:22 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media - Monday, March 9, 2015 (Lainey: a new feature because celebrities can’t help over-sharing on social media…) First off, she’s stealing a phrase from a reality TV star. Second, can you break the internet when no one gives a sh*t about you anymore, Lindsay Lohan? It’s cringe-worthy. Does she By Maria • Mar 09, 2015 04:14 pm
Break Ups Child Stardom from the Sidelines Child stardom is something we talk about frequently here because it really encapsulates the lure and pitfalls of fame, and every single time a child star goes astray, the narrative is one of shock and dismay. Why? We’ve seen it happen umpteen times! A child is encouraged to “follow By Maria • Mar 06, 2015 03:06 pm
Judgy Moms Jimmy Says Vaccinate We all know Lainey has been a teeny bit concerned about getting chicken pox, which would suck. But you know what would probably suck even more? Measles! And it’s so freakishly contagious that it’s hard not to get paranoid about it. (Lainey: which is why I just got By Maria • Mar 02, 2015 01:17 pm
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 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 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
B-tch 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