Ava DuVernay Intro for October 11, 2016 Dear Gossips, “It’s just words.” Is it ever “just” words? What can be achieved by words? What is the damage that can be done by “just” words? I read an interview the other day, before “it’s just words” became an excuse, at The Atlantic with director Ava DuVernay. By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 09:49 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Where Am I In The Mix? Hi Duana! I LOVE your column and your name nerd advice (and your name, to be honest). I also loved your book – how we feel about our names is such a study in human hope and behaviour, I can hardly believe that we went this long without the name nerd By Duana • Oct 07, 2016 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train Did you like Gone Girl? Didn’t you think Amazing Amy was just THE WORST, but also kind of cool? Do you like mysteries but not like, actually hard to solve or uncomfortable ones, but where the people you want to have done it, did it, and you don’t By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 04:29 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: Florence Vegan Leather Moto Jacket Gonna cut right to the chase because a) there’s a long weekend to get to and b) I just finished a detox and I’m about to eat my keyboard. I think we can all agree that there’s nothing better than a leather moto jacket, right? Unlessssssssssss it’ By Sasha • Oct 07, 2016 04:09 pm
Sean Penn Sean Penn & Leila George Yesterday new photos of Sean Penn kissing Leila George on holiday in Hawaii were released. The photos were taken on October 1. Click here to see them. He is all up in her face. Then, last night, Sean and Leila stepped out together in LA for “An Evening With Sean By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 03:55 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Explosive training The beauty of explosive training is that you don’t need a gym to do it and I feel like most training scenes from boxing movies usually take place outside, in the cold. Am I right? All you need to do is find a park that has some stairs you By Hayley • Oct 07, 2016 03:29 pm
Bruno Mars Bruno Mars is back Were we waiting for the return of Bruno Mars? I wasn’t. No disrespect to Bruno but I forgot about him. I'm not sure a four-time Grammy winning artist with a few of the biggest hit singles of the last decade can be underrated but I think By Kathleen • Oct 07, 2016 02:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, October 7, 2016 Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg are the first to welcome Sir Anthony Hopkins to Twitter. They are working on Transformers: Robots Explosions Tits (I’m just assuming that’s the title) together. Does Sir Anthony need a new vacation home? Always an honor to direct a legend like Sir @AnthonyHopkins. By Maria • Oct 07, 2016 01:47 pm
Amy Adams Amy & Emma campaigning together After the Venice Film Festival and TIFF, Emma Stone emerged as the current frontrunner for Oscar Best Actress for her work in La La Land. Amy Adams also generated some buzz for her performances in Nocturnal Animals and Arrival. We’re still four months away but we’re well into By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey is touching a tiger Matthew McConaughey has fallen into making two kinds of movies: 1) Serious award-baity fare, and 2) whatever the hell he was doing in Wolf of Wall Street. The first trailer for his new movie, Gold, was released yesterday and it definitely looks like it’s from the second category. By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 12:38 pm
Usain Bolt Usain & Harry Usain Bolt went to the Olympics and made history. He’s now considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. Usain makes it look so easy, so effortless, that sometimes it’s taken for granted how precise he is when he’s running, and how much knowledge has to By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the perfect Tesla The Current War, the Nikola Tesla movie that is somehow not about Nikola Tesla, has finally cast Nikola Tesla. At least we know he’s in this movie for sure. In a rather brilliant piece of casting, Nicholas Hoult will be playing Tesla, the genius inventor caught between two litigious By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 11:35 am
Issa Rae Issa Rae is funny “as f-ck” On Friends, the titles of all the episodes started with “The one with…” On Issa Rae’s new HBO comedy, Insecure, premiering on Sunday, all the episode titles end with “as f-ck”. The first episode is called “Insecure as f-ck”. The second is “Messy as f-ck”. The By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 11:17 am
Annette Bening Intro for October 7, 2016 Dear Gossips, Benedict Cumberbatch covers the new issue of Vanity Fair which, I guess, makes sense because Doctor Strange is coming out in a month and Marvel is money. But that doesn’t mean he’s the magazine’s best celebrity interview this month. Warren Beatty is the magazine’s By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 09:45 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, October 6, 2016 If only this debate was televised. @IvankaTrump in a city of 8 million - we meet face 2 face - i thank u 4 listening - mother 2 mother - on this new years week - my best 2 u— Rosie (@Rosie) October 6, 2016 Judge Judy does not suffer fools. I've been By Maria • Oct 06, 2016 04:58 pm
Style Parkwood at LV The Louis Vuitton presentation at Paris Fashion Week yesterday. Several of the LV regulars were there, including Michelle Williams, Jennifer Connelly, and Alicia Vikander. Sophie Turner attended wearing a dress similar to the red one Jennifer Connelly had on earlier this week. My pick for best dressed though were Chloe By Lainey • Oct 06, 2016 04:49 pm