Music A contested Nicki Nicki Minaj’s potential has been long evaluated and dissected. Since Nicki bulldozed her way into hip-hop’s popular consciousness with an exciting, spine-tingling and truly impeccable verse on “Monster,” there are many rap critics and fans who have been waiting for Nicki’s “MOTHERF-CKING MONSTA” to By Kathleen • Aug 14, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Oh did you think I wasn’t going to be mentioning Crazy Rich Asians this week? There was no CRA content yesterday because I’m hitting you up with so much of it today, tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday for its five-day opening weekend. Not only because, as By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 09:03 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Short, yes. Simple – not so much. Hi Duana, I’ll keep it short and sweet. I’m expecting my second babe, sex unknown, end of August. Our son’s name is Fergus and we love it. Originally we had planned on the name Seamus but when our guy arrived it didn’t quite fit, so a By Duana • Aug 13, 2018 05:24 pm
What Else What Else? This beautifully gay performance has reminded me of one of my regrets: I do not talk about Carly Rae Jepsen enough on this site. I love her. And I love Emotion. So much. How has it already been three years since it came out? Why didn’t I shout at By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 05:01 pm
Books Justin Timberlake’s “Hindsight” It was announced on Friday that Justin Timberlake is coming out with a book. What’s it about? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT’S ABOUT? His favourite topic: himself. If there’s anyone who can reliably be a cliché, it’s Justin Timberlake. Which is why the title of the By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 04:26 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie keeps losing Angelina Jolie was photographed at the supermarket in LA with three of her kids this weekend. We’ve seen her often with her kids since she and Brad Pitt broke up. We have not seem him with his kids. And he can’t see his kids without the presence of By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 03:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 13, 2018 Back in June, Lainey wrote about the summer of Awkwafina. We are fully immersed now, with Crazy Rich Asians just a few days away -- and she is now one of the most recognizable names in the movie. As she says, her “overnight” success took 6 years. (Is there any wistful By Maria • Aug 13, 2018 01:15 pm
TV Updates Insecure is back Lawrence who? That’s the only thing I’m going to say about Lawrence for the rest of this post about the Insecure Season 3 premiere. Like I’ve BEEN saying, this show does not need Lawrence. There was nothing lacking about the premiere without Issa’s wasteman ex-boyfriend. By Kathleen • Aug 13, 2018 12:09 pm
Relationship Assumption Chris Pratt, a year later Chris Pratt and Anna Faris announced their separation pretty much exactly a year ago. They did it during Game of Thrones. You remember the episode, right? Daenerys and Drogon swoop in behind the Dothraki army to burn the Lannister forces. Not sure whether or not that was strategic (I mean By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 11:34 am
TV Updates Choice Hottie This is still a category that exists at the Teen Choice Awards. I learned that and so many other important things while watching the show last night. I learned that the teens’ Best Chris may be Pratt – or at least he’s the one who shows up for them (Chris By Kathleen • Aug 13, 2018 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joe goes public Joe Alwyn will star in several films confirmed for the festival circuit this fall, and many of them could be award contenders. So it’s his first major promotional tour since Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which came out before we found out that he and Taylor were together. By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Chrises Walk The gears have been grinding slowly but surely on a fourth Star Trek movie, which was to star Top Chrises Pine and Hemsworth as a father-son Captain Kirk duo in, presumably, some kind of timey-wimey scenario that would resurrect Hemsworth as Captain Kirk the Senior. And it would By Sarah • Aug 13, 2018 09:00 am
Beyoncé Intro for August 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, We are not talking today about Meghan Markle’s father. Because there’s nothing new to say. It’s the same, my views on it have not changed: there is nothing loving about repeatedly harassing your child in the media. Did you know there was actually a contact By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 08:30 am
What Else What Else? I don’t know if I believe this new round of rumours about Idris Elba and James Bond. They’re just shooting Bond 25 right now. It won’t be out for another year. And it took them a LONG time to even get Bond 25 into production. So … are By Lainey • Aug 10, 2018 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Update - It’s Not About Me, Exactly… I mean, I should be making an effort to not have it about me, but I was so delighted with the response from the letter writer in the very personally-affecting Making It All About Me that I had to go ahead and make this the headline on a short By Duana • Aug 10, 2018 04:05 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Nina Dobrev's Outfits of the Week What stood out to me about these two outfits on Nina Dobrev is that I don’t think I would have predicted that she’d pick them before I saw her in them. This dress and the jumpsuit, they don’t seem like her regular style vibe. So if this By Lainey • Aug 10, 2018 03:46 pm
