Award Season Campaigning Oscars getting better Not perfect, but better. The Oscar nominations this morning got it mostly right, recognizing films we expected—The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, Dunkirk, Call Me By Your Name—films we didn’t—Logan and The Big Sick—and films we feared would be overlooked, like Mudbound and Get Out, By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 11:40 am
Award Season Campaigning Mary J Blige makes history The first part of the Oscar nominations this morning, when they announced many of the technical categories, featured vignettes to highlight the work that goes into editing and sound and costuming and cinematography etc. Each vignette was fronted by a woman, a diverse range of women beginning with Gal Gadot By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 11:02 am
Amazingness Tiffany Haddish wakes up the Oscars The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. And we’ll get to that through the day. But we have to start with Tiffany Haddish who, along with Andy Serkis, was invited by the Academy to call out the nominations. Please, I’m begging you. If you weren’t watching, get By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 09:55 am
TV Updates Taylor Kitsch’s press day Waco, the miniseries, will premiere tomorrow night on Paramount Network (formerly Spike). Taylor Kitsch plays David Koresh and, as Sarah noted when she wrote about the trailer a few months ago, this is hopefully the role that will break Taylor Kitsch out of his post-FNL funk. Did you watch Manhunt: By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 08:50 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 23, 2018 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in my post about Tracee Ellis Ross at the SAGs, and how she nailed it when she talked about “agency” and “shoes” in the show open, efficiently articulating that women can have agency and shoes and be both and so many other things, I also mentioned Laverne By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 07:58 am
What Else What Else? Remember how Justin Timberlake would be nothing if he wasn’t the NSYNC member who was dating the very famous, mega superstar Britney Spears? Remember how he has pretty much risen to where he is by stepping on women? Like Britney and Janet Jackson? Now he’s talking some sh-t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 03:17 pm
Maple Leaf Drake “lost a J.Lo” But can you lose something you never had? Drake dropped two surprise songs over the weekend and one of them, Diplomatic Immunity, contains the lyric: 2010 was when I lost my halo 2017 I lost a JLO We’re dealing with one of two scenarios here. One is that Drake By Kathleen • Jan 22, 2018 03:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 22, 2018 Break the internet: Taylor Kitsch has joined Instagram. (He currently follows Sebastian Stan, Chace Crawford and Peter Berg.) A post shared by Taylor Kitsch (@taylorkitsch) on Jan 22, 2018 at 5:10am PST Can Twitter do that thing where they make imaginary movies happen? Because I need a buddy cop By Maria • Jan 22, 2018 02:42 pm
Style Nicole Kidman: the finale The SAGs represented the final stop on the Big Little Lies award tour. And this year’s Nicole Kidman award season tour. She could very well be at the Oscars as a presenter, sure, but in terms of going into an award show as a favourite for her performance as By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 02:14 pm
TV Updates It’s Double SAG-nominee Alison Brie’s Problem We’ll get to what she said in a minute. But we really need to take a second and talk about the truly maddening fact that Alison Brie was asked about James Franco at all. If you didn’t know, she’s married to his brother Dave Franco, which is By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 01:34 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Reese in green at the SAGs A similar dress to Niecy Nash’s and probably the most interesting dress Reese Witherspoon has worn on a red carpet in a while? It’s been a while since Reese has made me look twice at her on the red carpet. This dress photographs spectacularly on the red carpet, By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 12:47 pm
Royals Princess Eugenie: another royal engagement! I wonder if Queen Elizabeth knows about Chinese superstition and fortune-telling. It’s on my mind right now because my ma, the Squawking Chicken, has been dispensing the upcoming Year of the Dog readings to me every night the last few nights, two zodiac signs at a time. I’ll By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 11:55 am
SAG Awards 2018 Saoirse Ronan Cements Stardom ~Prelude~ Stupid “So, you’re Irish!” question of the night: Guiliana Rancic told Saoirse Ronan that she heard that actually had trouble saying some ‘American’ words. Which made me roll my eyes, as per usual, but then of course, Saoirse Ronan is somehow able to make the anecdote charming, talking By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 11:33 am
SAG Awards 2018 Sam & Leslie: SAGs Best Couple Do you love them as much as I love them? Do you love Leslie Bibb as much as I love her? Did you see her interview Guiliana Rancic on the red carpet and make it one of the best interviews of the night? Guiliana was supposed to be interviewing them, By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 11:09 am
SAG Awards 2018 This Is Us wins GIVE STERLING K. BROWN ALL THE AWARDS. What have I been saying all season? I’m not one to gloat (I totally am) but 12 days ago I wrote that This Is Us is the best drama on network television. Last night, the SAG Awards validated my correct opinion by By Kathleen • Jan 22, 2018 10:46 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Brie & Lupita at the end I really enjoyed where Lupita Nyong’o was seated last night at the SAGs. Right in front. Sort of like where Oprah was sitting at the Golden Globes. Like so many other attendees, Lupita was in sparkles. Grey in some light but with a metallic blue tone on the carpet. By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 10:28 am
