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 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 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 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 By Maria • Dec 01, 2014 03:29 pm
Girly Throw Downs Don’t Bring a Butter Knife to a Gun Fight We’ve been tracking the White Girl Sh*t version of civil (literally) war between Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow for a couple months now. Martha first fired shots at Gwyneth’s acting career and Gwyneth then followed by haughtily brushing her off with a “Watch your back, b*tch” By Maria • Nov 21, 2014 10:42 am
Media Manipulation Gwyneth the First Remember that rumoured Vanity Fair “takedown” of Gwyneth we were all waiting for? It never materialized, obviously, with Graydon and Gwyneth making nice over a phone call and a jab at his weight. But it hasn’t been a stellar 2014 for Gwyneth, considering the conscious uncoupling and the disclosure By Maria • Nov 18, 2014 02:02 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Post-Baby BS We spend a lot of time here discussing the hard sell of parenthood in the tabloids: baby bump speculation, the motherhood/fatherhood whitewash, selling photos, social media posts, even maternity clothing. There’s an argument to be made that Hollywood commodifies women’s bodies, and that attitude extends into the By Maria • Nov 13, 2014 03:09 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow Watch the WASP Throne Have you been keeping up with Preserve? Right now it’s all capes and blossoming life, because Blake Lively is pregnant. Have you heard? This past weekend she made an appearance in New York at Martha Stewart’s Made in America event. Martha and Blake go way back, obviously: they By Maria • Nov 10, 2014 10:35 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Women and Children First “You do the best you can. Some days you feel really good about yourself and sometimes you don’t.” “We’re all trying to do the best we can.” Are you still with me, or did I put you to sleep? If you are bored, don’t blame me, blame By Maria • Oct 30, 2014 04:30 pm
Girly Throw Downs I Do Declare I don’t know much about Southern Belles (besides what I learned from watching Designing Women), but yesterday I wrote about a Preserve post titled “The Allure of Antebellum” (click here for a refresher). I called the piece tone deaf, but Gawker threw down a firmer approach, including clearly marked By Maria • Oct 15, 2014 09:42 am
Maple Leaf Blake’s Bountiful Womb Blake Lively and her artisanal fetus (thank you Michael K at Dlisted) are all over Preserve right now – first, with the announcement and now with Bringing Up Baby, a post all about… huh? I know that not everyone can be Grace Coddington and tell a fantastical visual story, but if By Maria • Oct 14, 2014 11:41 am
Ellen Pompeo Ellen Pompeo’s Not An Angry Black Woman Sorry, I know in the age of social media and the 24-hour news cycle, I’m supposed to be over the Shonda Rhimes/NYT article. But I feel like the paper and the writer got off way too easy. One of Shonda’s more rant-y characters (by her By Maria • Oct 03, 2014 12:26 pm
Media Manipulation Show Me That Smile Again It’s been a big week for Leonardo DiCaprio. He was designated a UN Messenger of Peace. He gave the opening remarks at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York. The video is below. He dropped sweet beats at 1Oak. He took a prominent spot at the People’s By Maria • Sep 24, 2014 12:05 pm
