Douchebags The Weinstein web keeps growing Why is there a Weinstein scandal update every five minutes? Because the Weinsteins, mainly Harvey and now Bob, have over the last 30 years, been involved in every corner of the celebrity ecosystem and many adjacent ecosystems. All those Venn diagrams are intersected and infected. Variety reported yesterday that Amanda By Lainey • Oct 18, 2017 11:13 am
Intro for October 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, I read a really informative article yesterday about broadcast television written by Jessica Rosenworcel. Who? Jessica Rosenworcel is one of the five commissioners on the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in the United States. She was writing about Donald Trump’s tweet suggesting that broadcast network licences be challenged By Lainey • Oct 18, 2017 09:51 am
What Else What Else? It’s true. Carrie Fisher is missed in so many ways. And Carrie Fisher would have seen some sh-t. One of the reasons she was so beloved was because she was candid about the sh-t she’d seen. And also the sh-t she’d done. What she did here is By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 04:12 pm
Equality Issues I Feel Pity: Mayim Bialik’s “Feminism” Hurts Raise your hand if Blossom broke your heart a bit this week. For a specific subset of women who make up the Oregon Trail Generation or whatever we’re being called these days, Blossom (and Mayim Bialik) was it, in terms of sassy-but-still-basically-rule-abiding role models who’d read as many By Duana • Oct 17, 2017 04:03 pm
TV Updates The dating life of Cheryl Blossom If you’ve watched the season two premiere of Riverdale, you know that Madelaine Petsch came into every scene like a f-cking wrecking ball, bulldozed over anyone in her path and elevated a character that could’ve easily been an over-the-top, laughable caricature into a nuanced, riveting, three-dimensional powerhouse. I By Kathleen • Oct 17, 2017 03:28 pm
BFFs Kristen Stewart: on many levels Last Friday Variety hosted a Power Of Women luncheon in Hollywood. Last night it was the ELLE Women In Hollywood event. The universe’s sense of timing sometimes can’t be explained. The ELLE event was attended by some of the most successful actresses in the business, many of them By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 02:45 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, October 17, 2017 Was the stool curved? Is there another stool behind her? Was she photoshopped on top of the stool? I've done the research and there's no way her ass is sitting on that stool. pic.twitter.com/AIGNpcJn6G— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 15, 2017 next week on By Maria • Oct 17, 2017 02:01 pm
Style Blake’s day of outfits Yesterday when I posted about Blake Lively, wearing two yellow-themed outfits while promoting All I See Is You, I mentioned that she’s known for multiple outfit changes on press days. That it wasn’t likely that those would be the only outfits we’d see. And, indeed, there were By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 01:30 pm
Maple Leaf Taylor Kitsch is bad at football “Taylor Kitsch sucks at football,“ is the exact wording my friend Jen used in a text she sent me last night with a video of Taylor on Ellen, playing a game for charity that required him to throw footballs at targets. Taylor Kitsch didn’t hit a single target. The By Kathleen • Oct 17, 2017 12:25 pm
TV Updates The Green Lantern Mystery I’m already on the record doubting that any version of the Green Lantern shows up in Justice League. But, last night The Big Bang Theory introduced the “Geekstakes” in which a fan can win a trip to the Justice League premiere. The game involves clicking on a wheel which By Sarah • Oct 17, 2017 11:56 am
Style Taika at the harbour Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo have been in Sydney the last couple of days promoting Thor: Ragnarok. We need this palate cleanser right now. You know what’s great about this combination? There’s someone here for everyone. Chris Hemsworth is for your pinup dreams. And, of course, By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 10:31 am
Top Reads Lauren Holly too Lauren Holly has been one of the most frequent guest-hosts on The Social since we started in 2013. She told us a few years ago at dinner one night about her Harvey Weinstein experience. As she said on The Social yesterday, her experience is not unlike so many others – hotel By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:58 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein isn’t the only As Hollywood continues to process the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a few people are now looking ahead, wondering about next steps. Because, of course, Harvey was enabled. And he would not be the only predator operating within and exploiting a system that protects the powerful. In a column By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 17, 2017 Dear Gossips, Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel, an Amazon production, is scheduled for release December 1. This is award season. So there was some speculation, before the film screened at the NY Film Festival this weekend, that it could be part of the conversation. Now that people have seen it, By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:02 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nicknames - Have to have or nice to have? Hi all! Thanks for all your notes asking for Name Nerd to come back from its hiatus and thanks for being patient with me! I wanted to jump back in with this note from Sarah P, which I received just after publishing ...which is fine, I guess, where I referenced By Duana • Oct 16, 2017 04:53 pm
What Else What Else? I love how certain media outlets covered this story – BUSTED FOR DRUGS! Do the people read the details though? Because the details are… so not worth using all-caps for. In fact, it’s almost a waste of the energy. Also…anyone who vapes would call it “juice”. Juice for her By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 04:34 pm
