Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Nut Crushers and Trojan Horses Emmy Rossum didn’t just demand equal pay for the 8th season of Shameless, she actually asked for MORE pay than co-star William H Macy, to compensate for all the seasons she was paid less than he was. As Duana describes it on this week’s episode of our Show By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner’s potential answer Blade Runner is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last thirty years, building off the dirt-and-muck aesthetic of Star Wars and the headier, more philosophical engine of 2001: A Space Odyssey. So it’s only natural, in our current nostalgia-driven culture, that a beloved classic be revisited By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 03:03 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Another Nicole in a topknot Unlike Nicole Kidman, Nicole Richie is in a topknot all the time. Like Nicole Kidman, I love it on her too. I also like that she’s letting her top do the makeup for her. You don’t need much when there’s all that sparkle going on in your By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 01:59 pm
Julia Roberts Julia Roberts. On Your TELEVISION Julia Roberts has signed on to a TV adaptation of Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different. As with all things Julia Roberts, it’s very hard not to think this was done expressly for me and my benefit. I love Maria Semple, and recommended her book Where’d You By Duana • Dec 19, 2016 01:48 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Nicole in a topknot I can’t remember ever seeing Nicole Kidman in a topknot. And she looks really good in a topknot. It’s the perfect dress for a topknot too. You don’t want to mess with anything too extra above the neck given how complicated everything else is below. A topknot By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 01:35 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Jessica Alba’s silver boots I have loved wearing long pleated skirts this season. In almost every colour. And they’re everywhere. And you can pair them with almost anything. Jessica Alba’s doing it here with a long Zoe Jordan sweater with shoulder cut-outs and a gorgeous pair of silver boots…in crushed velvet? By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 01:24 pm
Jude Law The pretty Pope Jude Law was in New York this weekend, seen here with his daughter Iris and his girlfriend Phillipa Coan yesterday at the Devils-Rangers game. On Saturday HBO confirmed that his new series, The Young Pope, will premiere in North America January 15th: His religion is revolution. #TheYoungPope premieres January 15, By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 12:33 pm
Casey Affleck Casey Affleck is A-Okay on SNL Did you watch SNL over the weekend? If so, you saw some awesome performances by Chance the Rapper. It was the last episode of 2016, and Chance came to shut that sh*t down, crushing his live performances and featuring in one of the night’s best sketches, “Jingle Barack” By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 12:15 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: moving to Florida? Page Six reported yesterday that Tom Cruise is moving to Clearwater, Florida. Apparently Scientology is big in Clearwater and he’s been unloading properly in LA and has purchased a 20,000 square foot penthouse in Clearwater with a private rooftop pool and a 9 car garage for only $3 By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One almost stands alone The first spin-off of the Star Wars cinematic universe, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, starts on a familiar path: Trouble comes to a remote farm, where the hero of the piece is left orphaned. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is abandoned when the Empire comes calling, dragging her scientist father, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 11:00 am
Top Reads The Margaret-Tilda emails Margaret Cho has been an outspoken critic of Hollywood’s whitewashing of Asian characters and the industry’s general lack of Asian representation. Margaret starred in the first Asian-American sitcom over 20 years ago. The show lasted a single season. And, sure, it wasn’t great. But, as we’ve By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 10:04 am
Intro for December 19, 2016 Dear Gossips, Did you see Rogue One this weekend? It made a lot of money at the box office so some of you must have. Sarah’s review of Rogue One is coming later this morning. I thought the film was too long but I liked it very much. And By Lainey • Dec 19, 2016 09:18 am
Elton John Mimi gets that money! But who’s missing? I posted the other day about Mimi’s Christmas classic, All I Want For Christmas. Even though you can’t escape the song for weeks every year starting November, it’s never charted in the top 10. This year though, according to Forbes, it has a chance. Mimi is everywhere By Lainey • Dec 16, 2016 04:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Grandmothers and grudge-holding So you know, on these days when we talk fondly about the children who may soon arrive, there’s always someone who says “Ugh, kids. And they’re full of GERMS.” And it’s true, they are… but I have it on backed-up, I’m-not-the-only-one proof that my current plague By Duana • Dec 16, 2016 03:44 pm
Donald Glover My dream dinner party You know that classic ice breaker question, “If you could invite five celebrities to a dinner party, who would it be and why?” If you were to ask me right now, three of the five answers to that question would be Donald Glover, Issa Rae and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Well, thanks By Kathleen • Dec 16, 2016 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Jennifer Lawrence’s tank bra and slip skirt This outfit is basically undergarments. A tank bra on top and a the skirt looks like a slip, doesn’t it? Duana is big on slips. I never wear slips. I’ve never worn slips. My ma did though and when I was a kid, I used to wear her By Lainey • Dec 16, 2016 02:47 pm
