Travis Scott Intro for November 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, On Friday night, the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas turned into a tragedy as a crowd surge caused a “mass casualty event” with at least eight dead. The Houston Chronicle has been doing an amazing job all weekend with the updates as more details have emerged from concert By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 08:49 am
What Else What Else Lana Wood, Natalie Wood’s younger sister, has a memoir coming out in which she corroborates a long-standing rumor in Hollywood, that Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted Natalie Wood at a party. Since Kirk is dead, Michael Douglas issued a statement: “May they both rest in peace.” Natalie’s peace By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 04:03 pm
TV Updates Even more Miracle Workers I don’t talk about Miracle Workers much because I genuinely love it so much that I just don’t want to turn it into work, but I must tell you that Miracle Workers has been picked up for a FOURTH season. If you told me two years ago when By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma after Diana As we are poised to receive Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana this weekend as Spencer opens theatrically today, let’s check in on the previous pop culture Princess Diana, Emma Corrin. They're in Venice shooting a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, looking very 1920s glam. Jack By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika tackles Jodorowsky In the annals of cult cinema, few filmmakers stand taller than Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-French filmmaker behind films like Topo and The Holy Mountain. He’s also known for his failed Dune adaptation, which was documented in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Jodorowsky is an artist of unquenchable curiosity, and while By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Marvel’s Eternals Marvel has taken a lot of hits over the years for their formula, and it’s a fair assessment at times that they lean too hard on the known and don’t take many real risks with their films. In that way, Eternals is the biggest swing they’ve ever By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked, finally The musical Wicked is nearly twenty years old—the book is twenty-six—and, finally, it is coming to the big screen. Jon M. Chu continues to not make the Crazy Rich Asians sequel will direct Wicked, following up his previous song and dance efforts Step Up 2 & 3, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard by now, Eternals is rating a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the first “rotten” movie in the MCU, and the lowest rated MCU movie ever. My full review will be posted later today, but while I don’t love the movie as By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:20 am
Child Stars Macaulay in the Love Parade The Gucci Love Parade runway show was a mega-Hollywood affair, literally held in the heart of Tinseltown, on Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theaters. Models stomped down the Walk of Fame, and the audience and runway alike included A-list names. Jared Leto’s appearance on By Sarah • Nov 04, 2021 10:38 am
What Else What Else In the Britney Spears Conservatorship Drama, everyone has been focused on Jamie Spears, Britney’s father and conservator. But Britney took to Instagram to let us know that her dad is too dumb to think of a conservatorship on his own, and actually it was her mom, Lynne Spears, whispering By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 04:05 pm
TV Updates This is not good timing Station Eleven is an award-winning dystopia novel by Emily St. John Mandel about a flu epidemic that devastates the world. The book isn’t even 350 pages, it’s a breezy read, and unique in the way it centers culture over humanity as the thing worth preserving in the By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors, Regina King, and Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel’s revisionist Western, The Harder They Fall, is less interested in history and more interested in aesthetic. It’s a film built on the cultural cache of gunslingers and bank robbers and the inherent coolness of its stars, especially Jonathan Majors. The Harder They Fall, written by Samuel By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crush me, moon daddy! Moonfall, the dumbest movie of 2022, is here with a new trailer about the moon obliterating Earth. Or maybe it’s really the secret aliens—robots?—that have been hiding inside the moon trying to kill us. Either way, the moon is the harbinger of our doom, which is slanderous By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe Morbius isn’t terrible? I have not been high on the Morbius train, as this pandemic-delayed Spider-Man spin-off finally wends its way to theaters in January 2022. But a new trailer is the best of the bunch by a huge margin, and maybe Morbius doesn’t look terrible? They’re still By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s next act Robert Downey, Jr. is in his post-Marvel reinvention phase, and if we ignore Dolittle, which we should, then his most significant post-Avengers project is Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie about Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy is already on board to By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Following the breakout success of Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times Presents is debuting a new documentary on FX/Hulu on November 19 called Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. We’ve seen a spate of documentaries focused on famous women of the aughts, from Britney By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 08:58 am
