TV Updates Timothee returns to SNL My brain refuses to retain the knowledge that Wonka is coming out this December—it is protecting me—so when Timothee Chalamet was announced as the host of the November 11 episode of SNL, I thought it was a holdover Dune thing. And then Lainey reminded me of Wonka and By Sarah • Oct 30, 2023 11:13 am
Dumbass Glen Powell is a Halloween scab Everyone was making fun of the SAG-AFTRA leadership for issuing guidelines about not dressing as movie characters from struck work for Halloween, but they knew what they were doing, because the Casamigos Halloween party was held over the weekend and guess what? A bunch of people dressed like movie characters By Sarah • Oct 30, 2023 10:17 am
What Else What Else? Michelle Williams is probably going to win a Grammy for narrating Britney’s audiobook. EGOT, here we come. (Popsugar) Gonzo Girl has not been getting rave reviews, and I don’t get the feeling Daisy Jones & the Six really set the world on fire, but I am rooting for By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Killer David Fincher’s latest film, The Killer, is an adaptation of the French comic book of the same name by Matz and Luc Jacamon. It asks the basic question—what if the secret assassin world of John Wick was actually boring and full of working stiffs? The Killer stars Michael By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 02:36 pm
Equality Issues Hasan speaks up Hasan Minhaj has responded to the September New Yorker article about his “emotional truth” in comedy. He does a really good job laying out the three biggest “charges” in the article, that he made up incidents involving racism, racial profiling, and personal threats against his family. He has audio and By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 01:02 pm
Top Reads Jonathan Majors’ legal shadiness The “A” key on my computer is broken, and I feel like it’s my laptop protesting writing about Jonathan Majors. But, well, we need to talk about what is going on with his domestic violence case. This week, a judge in New York denied a motion to dismiss the By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is still waiting for his turn The full trailer for Maestro is here, showing off Bradley Cooper’s passion project about composer Leonard Bernstein. Casting misgivings aside, this movie does look really good, and I am so curious to see it because reviews from fall festivals have been strong, but a couple people whose taste I By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 11:30 am
Relationship Assumption Intro for October 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, Has it been twenty seconds or twenty years that we’ve been obsessed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? I messaged Lainey earlier this week, imagining a scenario in which the Kansas City Chiefs go back to the Super Bowl, win, and then Travis proposes on the field. By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 08:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon discourse has arrived And I am already exhausted. Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, star of Reservation Dogs, took to the platform formerly known as Twitter on Monday to share her reaction to Killers of the Flower Moon. It was not positive. Particularly, she highlights how “underwritten” the Indigenous characters are compared to the white men By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 10:40 am
Business of Hollywood The A-listers are on notice On Friday, I mentioned a meeting between some A-list actors and the leadership of the SAG-AFTRA union. The purpose of this meeting was to, among other things, put forward a proposal to restructure residual payments and remove the dues cap for high-earning actors, in the hopes of “closing the gap” By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 09:33 am
Break Ups Middle-Aged Man Beef Lainey emailed me yesterday about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly popping in on Snoop Dogg’s set at Will Ferrell’s Best Night Of Your Life 2 benefit event for Cancer For College, which helps cancer survivors pursue higher education (because treatment costs often wipe out college funds, we’ By Sarah • Oct 24, 2023 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime, America, and the intersections of greed, entitlement, and the American dream. In David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon he has a perfect subject, the conspiracy of the Osage Murders that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 20th By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 02:43 pm
BFFs Glen Powell’s birthday friend group Glen Powell celebrated his 35th birthday on Saturday, and I am once again reminded that he is friends with New Girl star Lamorne Morris. This is not new information, they are apparently good friends—probably goes back to the 2014 film Sex Ed, in which they both star—to the By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 09:44 am
What Else What Else? Keke Palmer talks about her busy, viral year. (Popsugar) Gwen Stefani wore stars to her Hollywood Walk of Fame star presentation. I love her slouchy silver boots! (Go Fug Yourself) Ana Navarro, noted anti-raccoonist? I will say, Florida raccoons are INTENSE, they’re way too comfortable with humans which means By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon is a weird little guy Yesterday, Lainey pointed out the rather lacking chemistry in the trailer for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. It’s surprising that the trailer is so bland, given how hot Glen and Sydney were all over Sydney, Australia earlier this year. Well, another trailer By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saltburn with a side of murder We are one month away from Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, which looks like a f-cked up fairytale with a dash of classism and…human sacrifice? I said after the first trailer that the creepy butler looks like the type to poison people, but now this new trailer, Saltburn looks like By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 12:49 pm
