Break Ups JLo and ARod: We Were on a Break In a classic Friday news dump that made me legit scream, Page Six broke the news of Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s breakup. On Friday night, I wrote the first version of this piece, which I subsequently had to scrap and rework several times over the weekend. Let’s By Maria • Mar 15, 2021 10:48 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 12, 2021 Lainey and I have been emailing and texting about the Armie Hammer piece in Vanity Fair. Have you read it? It’s a deep dive and very Vanity Fair in that there’s a Fabergé egg, art fraud, lawsuits by the dozen, and a sex chair of ill repute. It By Maria • Mar 12, 2021 02:35 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 11, 2021 You know I have a soft spot for Biebs and I really like this cover. With the leather jacket and white tank top, it’s like the heartthrob covers of history (by that I mean the 1990s). Lady Gaga posted this photo from the House of Gucci set and I By Maria • Mar 11, 2021 03:02 pm
Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner: The Phoenix and the Ashes of Her Career Jennifer Garner has a big new profile in The Hollywood Reporter, the most deeply reported piece on her since the post-divorce Vanity Fair classic, Jennifer Garner on the Rebound! Jennifer Garner is one celebrity I have been wrong about many times. I took her earnestness and enthusiasm as a PR By Maria • Mar 11, 2021 10:50 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 10, 2021 We don’t have to talk about Piers Morgan because attention is his oxygen but I do want to point out that his dramatic exit has historical context. It has been done many times over in a move pioneered by the Real Housewives reunion walk-off. The first time it happened By Maria • Mar 10, 2021 02:14 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 9, 2021 Lea Michele slowly eased her way back onto social media after being called out for threatening to sh-t in Samantha Marie Ware’s wig on the set of Glee. Since then, a lot has happened to her personally (she had a baby) and a lot has happened to the Glee By Maria • Mar 09, 2021 03:44 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 8, 2021 International Women’s Day can go a little sideways on social media but there’s something almost quaint about Lindsay Lohan celebrating it with a glamour shot of herself. Dannii Minogue commented “women supporting women” and I’m cracking up. Nothing says supporting other women like looking in the mirror. By Maria • Mar 08, 2021 03:23 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 5, 2021 Gigi Hadid walked her first runway show (for Versace) since giving birth to her daughter. It’s been trending all morning on Twitter, both the videos and the still shots. She ate that sh-t up. Growing up with the original batch of supermodels has made me biased to that era By Maria • Mar 05, 2021 02:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 4, 2021 I’m obsessed with Anderson Cooper’s chunky monkey, Wyatt. Here’s Uncle Andy chasing Andy Cohen’s son, Ben (in his little man sweater!). Andy and Anderson are BFF and Ben and Wyatt will grow up together, two New York boys who will have the run of city. There By Maria • Mar 04, 2021 02:18 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 3, 2021 Do you think, in a way, Lily Collins was glad the flop Golden Globes happened virtually this year? Emily In Paris has been a social media punchline but also a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the Globes, which puts the show in a weird position. How do you By Maria • Mar 03, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You’ve Got Mail? I’VE GOT ANSWERS A couple weeks ago, Dustin Rowles from Pajiba wrote about an alternate ending to You’ve Got Mail, citing the Mandela effect (a collective false memory). Immediately after reading it, I started polling friends because I too remembered the “Shop Around the Corner inside Fox Books” ending that Dustin referred By Maria • Mar 03, 2021 12:47 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 2, 2021 Yesterday I posted about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s surprise baby announcement. It’s a surprise because Lucia (the new baby) and Edu (born in December 2020) are months apart. Katie Rosman interviewed Hilaria for the New York Times back in December (during the whole “how do you say cucumber By Maria • Mar 02, 2021 02:14 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 1, 2021 JLo Beauty has been sending out skin care fridges and it certainly makes sense to send one to Drew Barrymore because, besides her talk show, she has been doing “Beauty Week” on her Instagram for years, sharing her favourite products that range from luxury to drug store brands. The video By Maria • Mar 01, 2021 02:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 26, 2021 Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rogers have been on my list all week as I’ve been meaning to mention them but have been pushing it off. Shailene confirmed their engagement on The Tonight Show and talked a bit about how they connected (through her dog) and how little she knew By Maria • Feb 26, 2021 03:34 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 25, 2021 A lot of social media (particularly Twitter) is hating on the series of W Magazine covers shot by Juergen Teller and my understanding is that people think the photos are too ordinary and too simple, like they are candids taken on an iPhone. It’s precisely that reason that I By Maria • Feb 25, 2021 01:40 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 24, 2021 Lainey’s story on Tiger Woods from this morning is a must-read. Last night the Golf Channel was on in my house and the coverage of the accident was, in my view, pretty insensitive – there was little about his wellbeing and a lot of speculation about the accident. The Golf By Maria • Feb 24, 2021 02:04 pm
