Intro for April 19, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood Reporter is continuing to release excerpts from the upcoming Sherry Lansing biography, Leading Lady, which will be released next week. Sherry was the head of Paramount when Mel Gibson made Braveheart. And yesterday THR published the part from the book about the studio’s negotiations with By Lainey • Apr 19, 2017 09:40 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, April 18, 2017 Jessica celebrates Jennifer. Happy Birthday, Shirley! Love, Laverne 📷 @marieclairemag A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) onApr 17, 2017 at 7:22pm PDT Lainey’s Obsession undresses. Happy Birthday @bella_freud A post shared by Artist & Director (@samtaylorjohnson) onApr 17, 2017 at 12:48pm PDT Derek Blasberg, Diane von By Maria • Apr 18, 2017 04:32 pm
Quiveration Mark Ruffalo is a turtle My friends and I rarely agree on attractiveness. I always say, for instance, that Duana likes mountain men. Like she’ll always prefer the 45 year old over the 25 year old. I’m with the 25 year old, obviously. One person we can all agree on, however, is Mark By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 04:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch’s brown sweater Before we talk about Benedict Cumberbatch, I need to tell you what just happened to me. I was craving chocolate and the craving was too strong to shut down. It was because somehow, through Easter, I managed to not eat a single chocolate egg. It’s like my body was By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 03:47 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Drew’s pretty cold shoulder The cold shoulder was big last year. And it’s still big this year. I LOOOOOOOVE this dress on Drew Barrymore. The cold shoulder is flattering but to me the reason it works is because this dress billows. It billows so perfectly, so prettily. And it’s a dress that By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Nuns One of my favorite literary sub-genres is “Stuff Written During The Plague”. There’s a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Stuff Written During The Plague (between “Angry Repressed Victorians” and “Maritime Mysteries [Non-Fiction]”). Medieval plague breakouts drove people out of cities—if you could afford to By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 03:11 pm
Bad Hair Ginger Joaquin There’s not much to say here so I’ll keep it short. Joaquin Phoenix was photographed walking his dogs the other day. The last we heard from Joaquin it was about how he and Rooney Mara are/were “madly in love”. That was three months ago, in January. Since By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 01:38 pm
Girls Adventurous Women You know what’s amazing about Girls, on top of everything else? They stuck unwaveringly to their format for six seasons. There was, I think a ‘To Be Continued’, but mostly, even with ‘One Man’s Trash’ or ‘American Bitch’ they told the stories they had to tell in their By Duana • Apr 18, 2017 12:57 pm
Media Manipulation The Rock’s next move, best move, smart move Late last night, TMZ reported that The Rock and Vin Diesel have “squashed” their boy sh-t and will be signing on for Fast Furious 9. As you’ve probably heard, F8 just set a worldwide box office record. So, obviously, the studio wants in for another one. According to By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 12:18 pm
Music JLO and ARod give back Here are some shots of Jennifer Lopez arriving in the Dominican Republic with her children on the weekend. She was there to perform with Marc Anthony, and I’ve included photos from their concert below. This led to some silly speculation that maybe JLO and Marc would get back together By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer trades Barbie for Pretty Yesterday it was announced that Amy Schumer will star in a comedy called I Feel Pretty, which is the directorial debut of the writing team behind such mediocre movies as He’s Just Not That Into You and How To Be Single. For some reason, the details about Pretty are By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 11:25 am
Books Intro for April 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, So it’s time for me to harass you again about reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. To be honest, every day in this space I want to harass you about it. But sometimes I don’t have an “excuse”, which then leads to me questioning By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 09:55 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, April 17, 2017 This morning, Lainey wrote about Leo and Orly at Coachella. Someone creeped a photo from their house and it’s been floating around on Instagram. So many Doritos. But it is from this year? Leo’s top knot is making me question the timeline. New pic. Leo at a house By Maria • Apr 17, 2017 05:12 pm
Show Your Work Podcast The Show Your Work mini-egg: Katy Perry’s references and the MasterClass As mentioned in today’s open, Duana and I were planning to skip this week’s Show Your Work because of Easter weekend but we, to borrow from Shonda Rhimes, wanted to lay some track. The work is the track. More on that later. First up… this: This video of By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 04:52 pm
Olivia Munn Olivia Munn: life after (the other) ARod Here’s Olivia Munn arriving in Vancouver today to resume work on The Predator. Last week I posted about how it’s being suggested that she and Aaron Rodgers broke up because “she’s controlling”, on top of all that drama with his family, and how people assumed that she By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 04:30 pm
Relationship Assumption The Couple of Coachella 2017 Every year there’s a couple. You remember the Couple of Coachella 2016? It was Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris. In case you’ve forgotten, here’s a photo that Taylor Instagrammed of herself during his set: With the caption: "Watching @calvinharris like [heart-eyed emoji] #coachella”. Two weeks By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 03:52 pm
