What Else What Else? It’s rom-com weekend! So…if you’re going to see Crazy Rich Asians and you still need a rom-com fix afterwards, don’t forget, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, adapted from Jenny Han’s book, is now streaming on Netflix. I’m watching it By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 05:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Answer Is Already Inside You Duana, I've had "MY" girl name picked out for 12 years. I was happily surprised to learn Baby #2 is a girl due in August, and my husband immediately said, "Cool, we already have a name." Yet here I am, agonizing and overthinking and By Duana • Aug 17, 2018 04:51 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: EcoBrow I go through waves of caring about my eyebrows. Sometimes I think it’s liberating to just let them do their own thing – grow wild, be mismatched and let them lie whichever way they’d like – but then the day comes where I realize that that’s just a really By Sasha • Aug 17, 2018 04:15 pm
Break Ups Ben Affleck’s dinner date Ben Affleck celebrated his birthday earlier this week. He had dinner with his kids. Lindsay Shookus wasn’t there. We haven’t seen Lindsay with Ben in a few weeks. Saturday Night Live hasn’t started up again yet so… in theory… she’d have to time to be in By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 03:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman This has been a hell of a year for black American cinema, from the cultural phenomenon of Black Panther, to Blindspotting’s spoken-word musing on race and class, to Boots Riley’s masterpiece Sorry to Bother You, and we still haven’t gotten to new films from Steve McQueen By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 03:39 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Jessica Biel's Outfit of the Week Jessica Biel looks really good in this colour. The dress is pretty. And if you’ve watched the video of her on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, it moves beautifully on her and around her. But that’s not why it’s the Outfit of the Week. It’ By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ike Barinholtz gets his shot I’ve been low-key calling out Ike Barinholtz for a while as a consistent scene-stealer. Last year, in my review of Snatched, I wrote, “Ike Barinholtz steals every scene he’s in [… ]he’s so good, he’s entering Jason Mantzoukas territory as a secondary player who really By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 02:18 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 17, 2018 Of course Debi Mazar as at Madonna’s birthday – do you know how long they’ve been friends? They met in an elevator and Debi was M’s first make-up artist. A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Aug 17, 2018 at 7:46am PDT It wasn’t Poltergeist By Maria • Aug 17, 2018 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg in Mile 22 Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have enjoyed a productive and mostly successful creative partnership. Berg likes making movies about macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the nerds around them make no meaningful contributions, and Wahlberg likes playing macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 01:14 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Blake’s velvet double blazer I don’t know where she’s going but Blake Lively is clearly ready for fall. Like, sure, fashion doesn’t necessarily have to be seasonal anymore but certain fabrics are. And a velvet pantsuit, to me, is fall. I wouldn’t want to wear it in the summer, would By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 12:36 pm
Music JLo’s countdown As Maria mentioned yesterday in Smutty Social Media, as we approach the MTV VMAs, where she will be presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, Jennifer Lopez has been counting down memories from some of her most memorable music videos with details from when she was shooting them and By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 12:00 pm
Quiveration Domhnall Gleeson out for a walk Here is Domhnall Gleeson walking around New York City for your Friday consumption. I have not given up on making him the Internet Boyfriend of 2018, but he is not cooperating and campaigning as needed to make it happen. Gleeson keeps a low profile, and grist for the digital mill By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 11:22 am
Music Janet Jackson: for now, forever Janet Jackson has released a new single and accompanying video, her first in three years. The song is “Made for Now”. This is the first thing I listened to when I woke up this morning, angry at my phone for going off at 5am even though that’s when I By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 10:17 am
Top Reads The Gospel of Aretha The church gave us Aretha Franklin. No matter how you feel about religion, no matter what church you grew up in or didn’t, that is a fact. Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, is synonymous with spirituality. Studies say that this generation is less spiritual than the last and that By Kathleen • Aug 17, 2018 09:39 am
Music Intro for August 17, 2018 Dear Gossips, Thank you for all your emails the last couple of days with your reactions to seeing Crazy Rich Asians. I can’t wait for more of you to see it on the weekend…because I really, really want to talk about the mahjong! Let’s talk now, though, By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 09:01 am
What Else What Else? Samantha Markle started a rumour that her dad, Thomas Markle, Royal Meghan’s famewhore of a father, will be starting a clothing line. TMZ, the Thomas Markle Zone, has shut that down. Their “source” says it’s not true. Why even bother calling it a “source”? Thomas Markle obviously told By Lainey • Aug 16, 2018 05:01 pm
