Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for August 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in February, around Lunar New Year, I wrote a post at The Squawk about the Year of the Dragon and Red String Theory. This particular Year of the Dragon is also known in Chinese culture as a Widow Year (it has to do with calendar math and By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 09:11 am
What Else What Else? FKA Twigs, making some interesting shoe choices. (Go Fug Yourself) I read this philosophical essay once that life is so inherently chaotic and random and overwhelming that humans look for meaning in coincidence in order to give order and importance to the events in our lives. Like saying “what a By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 04:00 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: A traitor, a text, a tease The Bravo kids are headed off to college, and for fans that have essentially watched them grow up, it’s oddly emotional. Porsha Williams is not happy about her photos being leaked. Vicki Gunvalson appeared on a podcast and talked about why Tamra Judge is such a mean girl. And By Stephanie • Aug 23, 2024 03:20 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 23, 2024 Dennis Quaid said he wants his son Jack to “reverse nepo” him, which is pretty funny. Clearly he’s joking but this must come up for parents whose children have now met and exceeded their career heights. I wonder if there’s any parents nudging their kids to get them By Maria • Aug 23, 2024 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jack Black sign up for slithering Today in Let The Past Die news, Paul Rudd and Jack Black are in talks to star in a remake of the 1997 film Anaconda which was Owen Wilson’s first big Hollywood role, and Jennifer Lopez’s follow up to Selena (look, it can take time for a movie By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice Get Out introduced us to a new sub-genre of horror, the “social thriller” which uses the style and themes of the horror/thriller genre(s) for social critique. Get Out took on racism and how white supremacy is built on the literal exploitation of Black bodies. Nope takes aim at By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 12:12 pm
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy’s killer return Here’s Anya Taylor-Joy out for lunch with a friend yesterday in LA. It’s a perfect summer lunch outfit – striped belted shirt over shorts and flats, Dior tote, and headphones. Proper headphones. It makes me happy to see others who prefer headphones over earbuds because as I’ve said By Lainey • Aug 23, 2024 11:21 am
Photo Assumption Only Murders photo assumption Only Murders in the Building returns next week on Hulu, and the premiere was yesterday in Los Angeles. The central trio of Steven Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez were there, joined by Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, as well as new season stars Zach Galifianakis, By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 10:10 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, I WANTED to waste this opening making dumb jokes about Chick-fil-A’s streaming service—a few name suggestions: Chick-Film-A, Hatchling, Nugget—but then a conversation started amongst film critics that deserves a little attention. One year ago, I wrote about the New York Times’ bonkers article about “MovieTok” By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 09:23 am
What Else What Else? So tonight is the night – Night 4 of the Democratic National Convention will conclude with Vice President Kamala Harris accepting her party’s nomination for president, it’s what the entire week has been building towards. And there’s been all kinds of speculation about who will show up. My By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 22, 2024 You know who’s shaken about the end of Bennifer 2.0? T.J. Holmes. I didn’t know him and he and Amy Robach don’t live together but he woke up and texted her about it first thing in the morning, which is a sign of top-level gossip By Maria • Aug 22, 2024 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are the publicists okay Today in Has Anyone Checked On The Publicists Lately, Somebody Probably Should news, Lionsgate pulled the latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis because they got caught using fabricated quotes attributed to famous film critics in the trailer. Here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, Lionsgate, the US distributor for By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 01:32 pm
BFFs Everybody at the bar with Zoë There was another Blink Twice screening in New York last night ahead of its premiere on Friday. Reviews are starting to come out now and they’re solid (Sarah’s will be posted tomorrow) – like no one’s calling it a masterpiece but most are saying that Zoë Kravitz’s By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 12:05 pm
Music Sabrina Carpenter is a freak (manifester) In a cover story for PAPER magazine just days before the August 23 release date of her latest album, Short ’n Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter opened up about her success, and what it feels like to have finally achieved her goal of being a popstar, something she says she was ‘destined’ By Stephanie • Aug 22, 2024 11:13 am
TV Updates Sadly, this is not a Hit Man spin-off Coming off his big summer, in which HE is the star and not Tom Cruise, Glen Powell is already back at work on his next project, a football comedy series for Hulu called Chad Powers. While the show was co-created by Loki’s Michael Waldron and Powell, both of whom By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 10:03 am
Jock Smut Intro for August 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Formula 1 has been on mid-season break the last few weeks. Lewis Hamilton spent part of that time in Africa – relaxing, of course, but also learning. He shared some of those experiences on Instagram recently. And now it’s back to work. Lewis is on some good momentum By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 09:22 am
