Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, The American Film Institute (AFI) released its Top 10 of 2017 yesterday. We’ll discuss some of the entries through the day but in this space I want to once again spotlight The Big Sick, co-written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon and, by alphabetical order, the By Lainey • Dec 08, 2017 08:42 am
What Else What Else? This is not a very charitable question to ask but… is anyone really all that upset about R Kelly getting robbed? How much innocence has he robbed? And, you know, it’s been 20 f-cking years since the allegations against R Kelly were made known. Let’s definitely stay outraged By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 04:52 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Camila’s white sweater dress If you’ve been reading this site regularly this week, you know I’m in full blown sweater obsession. And, in particular, for years now, I’ve been looking for a great white/cream sweater. I wrote about Karlie Kloss’s white sweater the other day. Now I think that, By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 04:40 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Sarah Silverman dresses for breakfast The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event was a breakfast. I’ve been to LA a lot but I’m not of LA, so I guess I can’t say what’s “breakfast” and “not breakfast” in LA but I do know that everywhere else in the world, breakfast By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 04:15 pm
Maple Leaf Selena un-privates and Justin blushes I posted the other day about Selena Gomez privatising her Instagram account after sharing with her followers that she was pissed about a quote in her recent Billboard Woman of the Year interview. Her IG was reopened early Wednesday and according to The Blast: Sources close to the “Wolves” singer By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart, future Angel? This is my favourite ice breaker question: what are the movies you always watch if you flip past them on cable TV? It’s very telling. This question is going to be outdated soon. I still have cable. Many of my friends no longer have cable. For now, my friend By Kathleen • Dec 07, 2017 03:14 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 7, 2017 Billboard posted an interview with producer Walter Afanasieff, the co-producer on Mariah’s Merry Christmas album and the co-writer of All I Want for Christmas is You. It’s a super interesting read because it dives into the business of Christmas music. Everyone is trying to get a hit like By Maria • Dec 07, 2017 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The 100 Club That’s what they’re called now, it is known. They are the three women directing $100 million-plus movies for Disney: Ava DuVernay, Niki Caro, and Anna Boden. DuVernay, of course, is directing A Wrinkle In Time, due in the spring. Niki Caro is tackling the live-action Mulan, and Boden By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 12:57 pm
BFFs Shonda and Angelina Shonda Rhimes and Angelina Jolie. They aren’t two names you think of together often – if at all. If I was having a dinner party and Angelina Jolie and Shonda Rhimes were both invited, I don’t think I would seat them beside each other. I’d put Angelina beside By Kathleen • Dec 07, 2017 12:06 pm
Dumbass Dim sum according to goop I want to shout this entire post, do it in all caps, but then you would shout back at me because of your eyes. So, fine, I won’t. Just please know that I am actually shouting. Because the thing is, if goop and Gwyneth Paltrow were talking about a By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet can’t save Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Woody Allen’s latest film, Wonder Wheel, is the sixteenth “wonder” movie of the year, and it has everything you’ve come to expect from a Woody Allen film: New York locations, relationships complicated by suppressed misery, uncomfortable dialogue about an uncomfortable father/daughter relationship, and a legendary actress going By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 10:35 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake and the Women Justin Timberlake presented at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast yesterday, announcing scholarships to young women as part of the mentorship program. Him? Him. That’s a thing that actually happened. Justin Timberlake. At an event meant to honour women, lift up women, support women. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. Did By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 09:55 am
Oprah Winfrey Intro for December 7, 2017 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Lawrence was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey for The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment issue, guest-edited by Shonda Rhimes. She received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the Power 100 breakfast yesterday. Many of you have tweeted and emailed to ask if we’d be discussing the By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 09:02 am
What Else What Else? I couldn’t watch this video. For obvious reasons: I have dogs and… I couldn’t imagine. But the other reason I couldn’t watch this video is because the article ends on suuuuuuuch a great joke, the kind of joke that Michael K is known for, a joke so By Lainey • Dec 06, 2017 05:12 pm
Amazingness Celine’s holiday wishes It’s been almost a month since I last posted about Celine Dion and that feels wrong. But she’s been keeping a pretty low profile – she last performed in Vegas on November 26 and has over a month off until her next show on December 30. Which is why By Lainey • Dec 06, 2017 04:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post Set during the pre-Watergate Nixon administration, The Post follows the Washington Post back when it was considered a “local paper”. The New York Times is the paper of record, but the Post is under the control of Kay Graham, whose father left the family publishing empire to her husband, who By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 04:33 pm