Amazingness Intro for January 24, 2018 Dear Gossips, Please tell me you’ve seen Tiffany Haddish’s episode of Drunk History. It aired last night. If you haven’t, your morning is about to be as delightful as it was yesterday when Tiffany announced the Oscar nominees. I lost my mind at her assessment of Hitler’ By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Heads up: Sasha and I are recording the next episode of Sasha Answers tomorrow night. It’ll be posted on Thursday! Why are we talking about the next Bond when Daniel Craig hasn’t even started shooting his final Bond? There are a lot of people who want to be By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 04:51 pm
Faux Gossip WHAT IS HAPPENING I have been saying this for days. Ever since a teaser dropped for a new Danny McBride movie, Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home. Yes, that’s right. Danny McBride has a new movie, and it’s a secret Crocodile Dundee sequel—quad-quel, really—that no one By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Peacock in the conservatory with a candlestick I LOVE Clue. The game, the movie, love them both. Thanks to Clue, it’s a life-long dream to solve a murder at a dinner party where Everyone Is A Suspect. So it’s with a resounding “meh” that I greet the news that Ryan Reynolds has made a By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 02:38 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé is planning Beyoncé has been pretty quiet this year so far. She was quiet last year around this time too, remember? We heard nothing from Beyoncé in 2017 until…. Febuary 1, 2017. The first day of Black History Month. Also the day she set the record for most likes on Instagram. You By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 02:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 23, 2018 How mad do you think Jared Leto is that this picture is making the rounds on social media today? today marks ten years of these photos of paris hilton and jared leto at sundance - a #moment in hi(std)ory pic.twitter.com/Z5RL0vzM2Y— popculturediedin2009 (@pcd2009) January 22, 2018 Neil By Maria • Jan 23, 2018 01:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning We’ve got a race Over the weekend, the two biggest guilds held their award ceremonies. The Screen Actors Guild televises their ceremony, so everyone saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri win their top prize, pushing it to the head of the pack. Right? Well, not so fast. Because over at the Producers Guild of By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 12:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning No James Franco James Franco was not nominated for Best Actor Oscar this morning. And it’s not like he had an outside chance. Many experts, up to two weeks ago (and even still yesterday), had James on their prediction lists believing that most Academy members had voted before James’s sexual harassment By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 12:06 pm
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 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- 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
