Danny McBride #BRAG A couple days ago I wrote about the mysterious new “movie” from Danny McBride, Dundee, purported to be an extension of the Crocodile Dundee franchise. I called bullsh*t and guessed it’s a Super Bowl ad for Australian tourism, and guess what? IT’S A SUPER BOWL AD FOR By Sarah • Jan 25, 2018 12:27 pm
Shoes Shailene in (public) love Shailene Woodley has been dating Ben Volavola, a Fijian-Australian rugby player, for a while now. They met in Fiji where she was shooting a movie last year. This is the first time they’ve attended such a public event together though – here they are at the Valentino show in By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 11:53 am
TV Updates FYI, Murphy Brown is back. I sent Lainey an all-caps message about Murphy Brown because I was sure someone would scoop up the chance to write about the reboot before me. I can’t possibly be the only one who is super excited about this, right? Murphy Brown ran for 10 years (starting when By Maria • Jan 25, 2018 11:22 am
Zoe Kravitz Meryl gets another Emmy The official news is that Meryl Streep is joining the cast of Big Little Lies but we all know what that really means. Season two won’t air until next year so they should just go ahead and put Meryl’s name on the 2020 Emmy ballot. #Meryl2020 Let’s By Kathleen • Jan 25, 2018 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer & Jessica Chastain show their work Octavia Spencer told a really great Show Your Work story at Sundance this week. Octavia and Jessica Chastain are good friends. Over a year ago, Jessica reached out to Octavia because she wanted them to do a movie together. During those discussions, they talked about pay equity and how men By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 10:14 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 25, 2018 Dear Gossips, The thing about being brave is that the people who end up being brave probably would prefer to not be put in the position to have to be brave in the first place. When you are brave, you are “ready to endure danger or pain”. Nobody wakes up By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 09:11 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Know The Truth, Do It Anyway Dear Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child, a baby boy in mid-January. Picking his name feels like a very big deal, and I would love to hear your feedback and perhaps some alternatives. In choosing the name, we are aiming to hit the sweet spot By Duana • Jan 24, 2018 05:19 pm
What Else What Else? Yesterday I mentioned that Sasha and I were planning to record a new episode of Sasha Answers tonight and post for tomorrow. Her husband Cory just got his appendix out so this isn’t going to happen. We’ll let you know soon when we can podcast. Sorry about the By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 05:09 pm
TV Updates Natalie Portman: Instagram, Tennis, SNL When Natalie Portman joined Instagram a few weeks ago, Maria observed in Smutty Social Media that her handle was @nportmanofficial because a fan account had already taken @natalieportman. Natalie Portman’s official Instagram is now @natalieportman. So either the fan voluntarily gave that up or was compensated for giving it By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Den of Thieves I’m so disappointed. Here I was, hoping Den of Thieves would be a spiritual sequel to Gerard Butler’s last dumb-sh*t movie, Geostorm, but instead it’s a bloated bummer. Den of Thieves is, surprisingly, not completely awful, but it’s so f*cking long it becomes By Sarah • Jan 24, 2018 03:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 24, 2018 Gigi and Bella’s mom’s new reality show, Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid, starts this week, so she’s been talking about how she prepared three children for the business. One rule was not letting them work full-time until they were 18. Another is telling them that By Maria • Jan 24, 2018 02:02 pm
Style Yara & Chanel It’s Paris Fashion Week right now. Chanel presented yesterday. And Yara Shahidi was there, wearing Chanel, of course, and pair of plastic boots which look great on her but that’s because she’s Yara. These are not boots for everyone, Karl. Speaking of Karl, Yara is obviously on By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #CMBYN in Rome Call Me By Your Name premiered a year ago, an entire year ago, at Sundance to great acclaim and immediate Oscar talk. The film, however, steadily lost momentum through the fall and yesterday ended up with four Oscar nominations in total: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 11:10 am
Amazingness Denzel pays it forward Denzel Washington got nominated for his eighth Oscar yesterday. The conversation surrounding Denzel’s EIGHTH Oscar nom has largely been about whether or not he was only nominated to replace James Franco. As Lainey wrote yesterday, even if this did have something to do with Denzel’s inclusion, who cares? By Kathleen • Jan 24, 2018 10:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Allison Janney wasn’t sleeping It’s tradition on Oscar nomination morning to hear about how the nominees reacted to their nominations. Some release statements and those make headlines. And, over the years, we’ve become accustomed to the story that they were sleeping. That their moms or their agents woke them up. That their By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 09:56 am
Quiveration Jason Momoa can pull off anything Our site manager Emily can’t get over Jason Momoa’s bad hat. I emailed her and Lainey that I wanted to write about Jason Momoa today and all Emily could focus on was the hat. It’s a terrible, hideous, revolting hat. That’s not up for debate. I’ By Kathleen • Jan 24, 2018 09:22 am
