What Else What Else Priyanka Chopra (Jonas) says it’s not a big deal that she changed her name on Instagram, and that everything is fine in the Chopra-Jonas household. Mmkay. (DListed) FKA twigs dropped her new mixtape, Caprisongs. Not blown away so far, but her music has a way of sneaking up on By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We have to relitigate Beanie Babies now Right at the end of December, a documentary dropped on HBO Max about the Beanie Baby collecting craze of the 1990s, Beanie Mania. It’s not groundbreaking, but it does bring shame to the entire Chicago area—the first avid collectors were suburban Chicago moms—and it does a pretty By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 02:42 pm
TV Updates Raylan Givens is BACK IT’S A FRIDAY MIRACLE!!!! Back in spring 2021, we heard that FX was adapting a new Elmore Leonard novel, City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, with a big, fat “maybe” on Timothy Olyphant’s return as the coolest cat on TV, Raylan Givens. Well, FX has given a greenlight By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 12:53 pm
TV Updates Uber’s garbage culture TV show Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a lot of modes, but my favorite might be “smiley but untrustworthy scumbag”. He doesn’t do it often, but every once in a while, you get a Don Jon or a Hesher out of him, and damn, I love it every time. So of course, I By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 11:23 am
Award Season Campaigning David Letterman and Nominee Will Smith Here is Will Smith, fresh off his SAG award nomination, taping a segment with David Letterman for Letterman’s Netflix interview show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. They both look to be in high spirits, which isn’t unusual for Will Smith—that guy is always on—but Letterman By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 09:23 am
Tig Notaro Intro for January 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, 2022 is two weeks old and it’s already doing the most. There are celebrity couples breaking up, celebrity couples getting married, there are celebrity couples being Julia Fox and Ye (more on them later), the royal family is one step closer to yeeting Prince Andrew into the By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 08:54 am
What Else What Else Jamie Lynn Spears would like everyone to know she had nothing to do with that whole conservatorship business involving her sister, Britney, even though Britney made it clear her whole family, not just her dad, was benefitting from the conservatorship. (DListed) The Fug Girls break down the covers of the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 04:14 pm
TV Updates Aubrey Plaza to vacation at The White Lotus The White Lotus was one of the hippest shows of 2020. The internet was obsessed, I’ve met zero people in the real world who watch it, but the GIFs and the memes were everywhere last summer. A second season, to be set at a new fictional White Lotus resort, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 03:34 pm
Business of Hollywood The Oscars will have a host again For the first time in three years, the Oscars will have a host again. This year’s telecast is currently scheduled for March 27, and Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment, owner of the network on which the Oscars currently air, stated that they intend to have a host, or By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 02:49 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
TV Updates Lily James talks Pamela Anderson and privacy Lily James is on the cover of Net A Porter’s digital magazine this month—is it more accurate to say that she is the face of the digital magazine? There is no “cover”—to promote the upcoming Pam & Tommy series on Hulu. The interview, conducted by Eva Wiseman, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 10:37 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 12, 2022 Dear Gossips, At the end of 2021, James Franco peeped out of his hidey-hole and gave an interview to Jess Cagle in which he discussed his failures and “blind spot” for power dynamics, highlighted by a class-action lawsuit brought by former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, who alleged that By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara is Audrey Hepburn On Friday, news broke (via Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter) that Rooney Mara has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic to be directed by Luca Guadagnino. People were IN their FEELINGS about this, mainly because Mara is sort of famously glum and Audrey Hepburn did not have By Sarah • Jan 10, 2022 10:46 am
What Else What Else It seems like all the late night hosts have COVID, at least the ones in New York. James Corden is the latest to test positive. Seriously, everyone, stay safe! (DListed) A Kate Sharma primer to get you ready for Bridgerton season two, coming March 25. I cannot WAIT for Kate By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 04:09 pm
TV Updates Anna Nicole Smith is headed to Netflix Netflix has gone in on true crime in a big way, premiering a new true crime series or documentary every month of 2021, though they saw diminishing returns over the course of the year in the genre. Now, they’re getting in on another current trend, documentaries reexamining famous women By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 03:16 pm
