Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, The National Board of Review announced its award winners yesterday. NBR isn’t always that great of an Oscar predictor; last year their Best Film was The Post, Best Actor and Best Actress were Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe and Laurie Metcalf won for supporting …AND By Lainey • Nov 28, 2018 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Jameela Jamil’s IDAGF-ness is breathtaking. We’re used to seeing one or two tweets. She is pounding this issue relentlessly. And naming names. And posting photos. And using words. She’s using words like “liar”. She’s calling out celebrities for being “gross”. And even when one of those By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 05:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Creed II: The soundtrack “Eye of The Tiger” is one of the most iconic movie songs of all time. It’s one of the reasons Rocky III is my favourite Rocky movie. I feel like the heavyweight champion of the world just listening to it. Find me in the gym (lol) listening to this By Kathleen • Nov 27, 2018 05:24 pm
Barry Jenkins Kerry & Nnamdi for Beale Street I saw If Beale Street Could Talk at TIFF. It crushed me. Love is HARD. Love is often sold to us as easy, too easy. “Love is all you need.” If only that could be the truth. But while love is complicated at the best of times, as Kathleen often By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 05:10 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, Unexplored in Vanity Fair If this site had a daily thesis, today’s is ‘the celebrity profile is not dead’. So obviously I dove greedily into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cover profile in Vanity Fair. But I came away feeling flat and disappointed. Upset, even. Not what I expected at all. Am I the only By Duana • Nov 27, 2018 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood (Lainey: The headlines about Robin Hood aren’t great. Forbes calls it the “most predictable box office bomb” of the year. The Telegraph says it’s the “biggest box office bomb since Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur”. According to Business Insider, it’s the “biggest box office bomb of the By Sarah • Nov 27, 2018 04:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 27, 2018 Apparently, Adam Levine is having some reservations about performing in the Super Bowl halftime show. At this point, the band should be asking what benefit, if any, the halftime show will have on their work – they are already hit makers and radio favourites, that won’t change with this performance. By Maria • Nov 27, 2018 02:49 pm
Royals Angelina’s weekend in London … with royalty Angelina Jolie was in London this past weekend at the Fighting Stigma Through Film festival in support of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative. As we have seen, Angelina has been raising awareness for victims of sexual violence over the years, working closely with governments to end sexual violence in conflict. By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Indie king Ethan Hawke’s hustle is showing Ethan Hawke got the wildest applause of the night at the Gotham Awards last night after his Best Actor win for his work in First Reformed. It’s his first win for that performance, and with the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle both announcing their By Joanna • Nov 27, 2018 12:54 pm
Hollywood Drugs Amanda Bynes Breaks the Internet In the four years since Amanda Bynes “broke the Internet” before Paper Magazine made that term a thing, and for very different reasons than the other breakers of browsers, the Internet has changed. Amanda’s public battle with addiction which unraveled in real time on Twitter would - I hope By Kathleen • Nov 27, 2018 11:49 am
Royals The Duchess Wars Earlier this month, it was reported that there was some tiara drama before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Supposedly Royal Meghan wanted to wear a certain tiara and she ended up with another one, even though Harry insisted that “what Meghan wants, Meghan gets”. If you recall, in By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 11:05 am
Lena Dunham Intro for November 27, 2018 Dear Gossips, Back in September, Jon Caramanica declared in The New York Times that the celebrity profile is dead. Beyoncé had just interviewed herself for Vogue. Taylor Swift, taking Beyoncé’s lead, isn’t doing interviews anymore. Emma Stone was interviewed by one of her best friends, Jennifer Lawrence, for By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 09:33 am
What Else What Else Kim Kardashian says her biggest mistakes happened when she was on ecstasy, including the sex tape. Right. But does ecstasy have anything to do with why and how that sex tape was “released”? It’s one thing to make a sex tape, thousands of which, I’m sure, are being By Lainey • Nov 26, 2018 04:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Risk vs. Reward Hi Duana! Long time reader, fellow name nerd and big fan. I’m expecting my first child (gender unknown) and, being a naturally indecisive person, am having a hard time with names. I have been thinking about baby names since I was in elementary school but now that it’s By Duana • Nov 26, 2018 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan is a Movie Star Creed II was a big hit this weekend at the box office with a total Wednesday to Sunday gross of $55 million, making it the best American Thanksgiving opening ever for a live action film. That’s a record. And it’s Michael B Jordan’s second record-breaking movie this By Lainey • Nov 26, 2018 04:22 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Amber’s …aqua-dress? The question is: would Amber Heard have chosen this dress were she not promoting Aquaman. a movie about a superhero who, I think, is the lord of the sea? King of the sea? Monarch of the sea? Whatever. The point is, there is a world of powerful undersea beings and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2018 03:43 pm
