Will Smith Helen Mirren wants a “hey hey” A reader called Sharon set this Daily Beast link over to me this morning about Helen Mirren’s Christmas message on the Graham Norton Show while she was on with Will Smith and Naomie Harris to promote Collateral Beauty – Sarah just reviewed the movie and said it was bananas. Anyway, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
Hook Ups Flirt Alert: Hilary Duff and Scott Eastwood Hilary Duff won the Annual Halloween Stupid Award this year when she and her then-boyfriend and personal trainer Jason Walsh dressed up as a sexy pilgrim and a Native American chief. They were immediately dragged up and down social media. She apologised on Twitter and he posted a message on By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 11:21 am
Emma Stone Emma Stone Rolling Stone There’s a lot I like about Emma Stone’s interview with Rolling Stone. She’s on the cover of the new issue, just in time for the wide release of La La Land at Christmas and, of course, just as she and the film are in tight races for By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 10:16 am
Casey Affleck Intro for December 22, 2016 Dear Gossips, At this point, it’s looking like Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser, will win the Oscar for Best Actor for his terrific performance in Manchester By The Sea. It’s not necessarily that he shouldn’t. But, as Duana and I discussed on the Show Your Work podcast By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 09:49 am
Jennifer Lopez Drake & JLO: work or more? I posted on Monday about how Drake was at Jennifer Lopez’s Vegas show this past weekend for the second weekend in a row. It was her final All I Have residency performance of 2016. She will resume in February. On Monday night, according to TMZ, Drake and JLO were By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 03:42 pm
Top Reads Charlie Hunnam goes Leo-Leto Earlier this year, Angelica Jade Bastien, writing in The Atlantic, posited that Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting. Jared Leto was promoting Suicide Squad at the time, and he and his co-stars were telling stories about how he’d send dead rats or pigs to his co-stars, generally behaving like a By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 02:52 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 21, 2016 That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg. When doves cry A video posted by Jack Black (@jackblack) onDec 20, 2016 at 11:20am PST Michelle Monaghan looks great in double denim. I look like a farmer, and not the hipster-chic kind. 🎨 #melbourne #streetart 🎨 A photo posted by Michelle By Maria • Dec 21, 2016 01:45 pm
Name Nerd Blake, Ryan, and their daughters, DRAMA and ATTENTION Reynolds What? What’s wrong with those names? You think my headline’s over the top? I submit that’s what Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively may as well have named their children. Read on: This week we found out the name of their second child. It’s a girl, and By Duana • Dec 21, 2016 12:57 pm
Mariah Carey Mimi’s free Christmas Mimi goes to Aspen every year for Christmas. This year she’s in Aspen for free, courtesy Airbnb. It’s not a secret either. Yesterday Airbnb sent out a press release with photos of and details about the $22 million property where Mimi is staying. It read like this: Queen By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 11:31 am
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender opens today Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed opens today. As you probably know, it’s based on the video game. Video game film adaptations are usually sh-t. We were supposed to think that maybe this one would be the exception because Michael Fassbender is a Serious Actor. And presumably has the By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Passengers, the best worst movie of the year SPOILERS because everything wrong with this movie is the plot Passengers starts out like it’s going to be an existential sci-fi horror movie, something along the lines of Ex Machina, perhaps, where the science fiction premise is used to examine questions of morals and ethics, and the plot revolves By Sarah • Dec 21, 2016 10:32 am
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence’s blind riddles Jennifer Lawrence was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen this week. And her best friend Laura Simpson was the bartender. You’ll recall, Jennifer took Laura with her to the Oscars in 2014 and Laura ended up writing an essay about the experience afterwards. So they play this By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 09:48 am
Mischa Barton Intro for December 21, 2016 Dear Gossips, Duana and I tape the Show Your Work podcast on Saturdays at 1030am to be posted two days later, on Mondays. This week’s episode was the last of the year because holidays, etc. All week we’ve been sending notes back and forth about what we would By Lainey • Dec 21, 2016 09:23 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 20, 2016 Neil Patrick Harris’s 73 Questions for Vogue. He is kind of huffy, in a way that I love. Like when he sighs and says, slightly annoyed, “Do I have to rate them?” Or his reaction when Emma Stone and magic tricks are mentioned, and how he makes a point By Maria • Dec 20, 2016 03:39 pm
Britney Spears Britney’s holiday boyfriend? Britney Spears has been single for over a year. Until now? Britney went out a few weeks ago with Sam Asghari, the model from the Slumber Party video. Back in November, after they had dinner, Sam posted a photo to Instagram that he ended up deleting. Why bother at this By Lainey • Dec 20, 2016 03:13 pm
