Quiveration Charlie and my eye Appreciate your emails and tweets about my stank eye yesterday. Thank you! It still hurts and it’s probably still gross but I can open it wide enough to ogle Charlie Hunnam. Which is maybe why this happened in the first place. There’s an old wives’ tale in Chinese By Lainey • Sep 01, 2016 10:11 am
Intro for September 1, 2016 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is September 2nd and, you’ll recall, I promised to remind you that that’s when Brock Turner, who raped his unconscious victim behind a dumpster, will be released from county jail. Brock Turner was originally sentenced to 6 months but only had to serve half of By Lainey • Sep 01, 2016 09:35 am
Amazingness Into the Matrix of Jaden and Willow It's like Jaden and Willow Smith knew I was having a sh-tty week. It's like they collectively decided to pose for an UNREAL post-apocalyptic photo spread and take part in a new joint feature in Interview magazine as a gift, specifically for me. It's By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2016 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Watching Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander fall in love Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander will walk their first red carpet together tomorrow at the worldwide premiere of The Light Between Oceans at the Venice Film Festival (the premiere of Steve Jobs at NYFF last October does not necessarily count). It's interesting too, because this is the movie By Joanna • Aug 31, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins The catch-up continues with Meryl Streep’s latest Oscar vehicle, Florence Foster Jenkins. I want to sh*t on this movie for being too saccharine and unevenly balanced between its two leads, but this movie is explicitly about NOT sh*itting on people who are trying really hard, even if By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in War Dogs Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips’ latest bro-nightmare movie, War Dogs. For a director known for comedies—namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others—Phillips doesn’t seem to like directing comedies. He got By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 09:56 am
Equality Issues Nate Parker apologizes We aren’t done talking about Nate Parker. In an exclusive in-depth interview with Ebony released over the weekend, Parker addressed, as Ebony calls it, the “growing firestorm surrounding his 1999 rape allegation.” Nate Parker spoke with senior editor Britni Danielle for 25 minutes about consent, toxic masculinity and male By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2016 09:23 am
Rihanna Intro for August 31, 2016 Dear Gossips, Since last Monday I've been dealing with some kind of eye stye. It got worse then better and actually popped while I was on live TV last Tuesday and, after the initial alarm - blurry vision - I got really excited because I love gross sh-t By Lainey • Aug 31, 2016 09:00 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Drake loves Rihanna I spent last night reading up on all the Drake Loves Rihanna So Much articles, obsessively. Seemed like every outlet, every website had one going. VOGUE posted a timeline of their relationship. And Vox. And then there were all the articles about whether or not she friendzoned him – the Daily By Lainey • Aug 30, 2016 03:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media for August 30, 2016 His biggest client is Justin Bieber and his penis, but Scooter is becoming a major power player (and he’s only 35). Here he is at dinner with Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, David Geffen, Les Moonves, Neil Portnow (the president/CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences By Maria • Aug 30, 2016 02:22 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Answers Podcast: Helping Lost Teenager Welcome Back to the Sasha Answers Podcast! If you listened last week Lainey and I read a letter from Lost Teenager. She is a 14 year old who only a few weeks ago was raped. In the last week, I’ve been emailing with Lost Teenager back and forth and By Sasha • Aug 30, 2016 01:47 pm
Top Reads Calling out Leo? Last week The Hollywood Reporter published an article about Leonardo DiCaprio’s charitable foundation and whether or not it accepted dirty money resulting from the 1 MDB embezzlement scandal. Today THR is following up with another report about another charity, The Bruno Manser Funds, which raises awareness for Malaysian rainforest By Lainey • Aug 30, 2016 01:32 pm
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner arriving for Arrival Here is Jeremy Renner, wearing the sh*t out of a pair of jeans, arriving in Venice for the film festival, which kicks off this week. He’s there to support Arrival, in which he plays second fiddle to Amy Adams. Renner—along with Elizabeth Olsen—skipped out on most By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 01:05 pm
Oprah Winfrey Ava’s 3 drafts Ava DuVernay at the premiere of Queen Sugar last night. The show begins on OWN September 6 and 7; back in July, Kathleen wrote about making this series appointment television. Queen Sugar is about three siblings who reunite to manage their father’s sugar cane farm, adapted by Ava from By Lainey • Aug 30, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Get Down I feel like I should apologize for not getting to The Get Down sooner. But now that I’m here, I’m looking around what feels like a mostly empty room and wondering where everyone else is. Have you watched The Get Down? No? Why not? Maybe it doesn’t By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 11:08 am
Quiveration Charlie in a tank top Oh hey. How about this to start the day? Charlie Hunnam in a tank top running errands on the weekend. Since all of my words and feelings are still tied up with Rihanna and Drake, there’s not much more I can give you here beyond the money I spent By Lainey • Aug 30, 2016 10:39 am