Amazingness Timmy-Bob is extra Bob It’s not that I’m ever not a fan of Timothée Chalamet. He checks all the boxes for me personally and professionally – so talented, so pretty, so perfectly of the celebrity moment, so good for gossip. We are better for Timmy Chalamet and anybody who tells you any different By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 10:17 am
TV Updates Intro for December 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, I spent the last few days recovering from a scheduled procedure, staying off screens, and burning through several audiobooks – the first being Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend. Sarah posted about this back in September and it’s been talked about all over the chats over on our Substack, By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 09:28 am
What Else What Else? Will Ferrell was honored at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Kristen Wiig and Octavia Spencer showed up in support. This IS the table to be at during a reception. You know they’d be clowning on everyone else there in the funniest but sweetest way possible. Will Ferrell’s humor By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 04:09 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: Parties, divorce, cookies Bethenny Frankel is keeping it real as always, letting people know that Harry Hamlin’s sauce is ‘not great’. Something strange is happening to Brandi Glanville’s face, and Botched star Terry Dubrow says she needs to get the ‘ticking time bomb’ properly diagnosed. Jen Shah may be returning to By Stephanie • Dec 13, 2024 02:58 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 13, 2024 Kate Hudson released an album in 2024 – could she be pivoting to country music in 2025? Gwyneth tried it and they didn’t take to her. That reminds me of Country Strong, which was Garett Hedlund’s breakout role. He was positioned to be a Glen Powell kind of movie By Maria • Dec 13, 2024 02:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning The state of the race post-CCA nominations The Critics Choice Awards nominations were announced yesterday (I am a voting member of the CCA), giving a huge boost to the ongoing Oscar campaigns of Wicked and Conclave, which banked eleven nominations each. Dune: Part II, a lower key presence in awards season so far, got ten nominations, tied By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A creeping sense of dread in Nosferatu Over the last decade, Robert Eggers has established himself as one of the most meticulous auteurs working today, with his exactingly realized worlds occupied by characters undergoing total meltdowns. Nosferatu is his latest cinematic diorama of dread, a retelling of FW Murnau’s classic silent film of the same name, By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:48 am
TV Updates Let the Squid Game begin Two weeks until Squid Game returns and the Los Angeles premiere for season two was yesterday, bringing out series stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Season two newcomers Yim Si-wan and Jo Yu-ri were also on hand. Not pictured: Lainey’s beloved Gong Yoo. You’re By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nobody puts Babygirl in a corner The Christmas day theatrical calendar is crammed with films squeezing in an Oscar-qualifying run before December 31, including Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. I’ll have a full review next week, but in short, it’s a holiday rom-com for the horny and deranged. Promotion for the film is kicking into By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 09:55 am
Intro for December 13, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy Friday the 13th, Chanel has a new creative director and I’m sure this is not a bad omen! Matthieu Blazy, lately of Bottega Veneta, has been named Chanel’s creative director after months of speculation as to who would run the storied fashion house (Blazy' By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Legs were on display at the Out 100 event. My favorite look is Katy O’Brian. It’s like punk Beetlejuice. (Go Fug Yourself) Polo seems to have landed with a bit of a whimper, so honestly, I won’t be surprised if Harry & Meghan’s Netflix contract comes By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler stays extremely busy Austin Butler spent most of his year working, a trend that is not stopping going into 2025. A thing he has in common with Glen Powell is that he keeps booking more work, to the extent that I’m starting to wonder which of his upcoming projects he’ll end By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 03:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 12, 2024 Selena Gomez’s engagement announcement is pretty cute because it seems very natural, it looks like photos she would send her friends. They seem incredibly happy and Benny is a great cook, congrats to them. Yesterday Sarah posted about Chris Pine’s girlfriend and it reminded me that he has By Maria • Dec 12, 2024 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody in The Brutalist Having previously tackled the formative years of a fascist leader (The Childhood of a Leader) and America’s insatiable appetite for celebrity (Vox Lux), filmmaker Brady Corbet turns his attention to the immigrant experience in America in The Brutalist. Directed by Corbet and co-written by him and Mona Fastvold, The By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another rom-com bites the streaming dust There was a time when Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon starring in a rom-com would be a major release, a film you could pretty well set your watch to, as it were, counting on it to make $100 million on name recognition alone. But these days? No one has a By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone else in Mufasa The Mufasa press tour continues apace, stopping in London yesterday. No Bey or Blue Ivy this time, though, which means we can talk about everyone else involved with this film. Let’s start with Barry Jenkins, the director of the film. It is for his sake that I hope Mufasa By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:01 am
