Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, the contender As you’re now probably aware, after the reaction to A Star is Born in Venice and especially in Toronto, in front of a North American audience, the film is a now a major contender for award season and, ultimately, for Oscar. A Best Picture nomination seems likely, especially if By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 01:28 pm
TV Updates Goth Sabrina Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a bright, upbeat show about a half-witch, half-mortal girl and her spinster aunts and their talking cat. It was more Bewitched than The Craft, with high school antics and easily solvable sitcom problems. The new Sabrina reboot, however, definitely looks more in the direction of By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 12:50 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: La La Anthony's Outfit of the Week I’m not going to pretend that I would ever wear this dress. I do admire it though. And I love it on La La Anthony. Also I love the name La La and I wish I could have nicknamed myself La La because the letters “L” and “A” do By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 12:19 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Elle’s yellow and stripes What is your favourite fashion season? Duana and I talked about this recently. She’s all about summer. I’m super into fall. I like the versatility of fall. I like layering. I like that a short summer dress gets a new life with tights and combat boots. I like By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maggie Gyllenhaal dresses like a winner Rolling Stone called Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performance in The Kindergarten Teacher the “most impressive work she’s ever done", so here she is, dressed like a winner for the international premiere of the film in Toronto last night. I love this black off-the-shoulder Oscar de la Renta dress with By Joanna • Sep 14, 2018 11:27 am
Weddings Justin and Hailey... married? Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin went to the courthouse “where marriage licenses are issued” in New York City yesterday, TMZ is reporting. Hailey was wearing a casual white dress and Justin was, well, still fully committed to his grunge aesthetic. Eyewitnesses say that Justin was emotional and through tears said By Kathleen • Sep 14, 2018 11:02 am
Media Manipulation Lady Gaga’s “overjoyment” This is a word Lady Gaga uses in her new Vogue cover story released earlier this week. Her “73 Questions” came out yesterday. All this, of course, ahead of the release of A Star is Born on October 5 following its world premiere in Venice and its North American premiere By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 10:27 am
TV Updates Emma and Cary: the couple we wished for We? OK maybe just me. But I was wishing it. I’ve been wishing it. The Gossip Genie has NOT delivered. There is no Emma Stone + Cary Fukunaga. But here are some shots of them together at the premiere of Maniac last night in London anyway, taunting us with what By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Munn in The Predator The Predator is the latest (misguided) attempt to extend the mythos of Predator, the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Predator, like the DeLorean, was a one-off idea that never should have been franchised, and yet it has been, with The Predator being an attempt to kickstart a new franchise with new, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, As mentioned, last night I moderated the Q&A after the 25th anniversary TIFF screening of The Joy Luck Club at the Elgin Theatre, the same theatre where it premiered at TIFF in 1993. Director Wayne Wang was joined by casting director Heidi Levitt, and cast members By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 08:32 am
What Else What Else? Lainey is casually moderating the Q&A after the 25th anniversary screening of The Joy Luck Club at TIFF right now. No big deal. I’m kidding; it’s a VERY BIG DEAL. I would tell you to send her good luck but she doesn’t need it. While By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 04:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: First Man First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land could not be more different than his previous films. For one thing, First Man is not about music. For another, it is a much bigger production in scope, scale, and imagination, and Chazelle takes to this kind of grandiose filmmaking By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 04:37 pm
Music Missy’s “funky white sister” You probably don’t know Mary Halsey by name. You probably have seen the video of her rapping to Missy Elliott’s “Work It.” I’ve tried to do this song at karaoke and it is HARD. Mary doesn’t make it look hard. Mary’s got the funk. Mary’ By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “That lame Superman guy” no more Henry Cavill is best known as “that lame Superman guy” and/or a mustache, but now he will need to reinvent himself as he has both shaved and, apparently, quit being Superman. Yesterday word got out that after a three-movie run that includes some of the most divisive and unpopular By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 03:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, September 13, 2018 My international espionage queen Wendi Deng is hanging with the Seinfelds (not the first time – when she was married to Rupert Murdoch, they attended some of the same functions). But the political climate has wildly changed in the last two years, even though Wendi’s loyalty hasn’t. She is By Maria • Sep 13, 2018 02:15 pm
Models Rihanna x Fenty x NYFW Yesterday Lainey wrote that New York Fashion Week “begins and ends with Rihanna”. Rihanna debuted her new Savage x Fenty lingerie line and she did not disappoint. It wasn’t your typical runway show. Rihanna reinvented what a lingerie runway show could look like. The Savage x Fenty show was By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 01:07 pm
