Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Hacks – Nothing But Respect for the REAL Emmy Comedy LEST WE BE CONFUSED, the title is a joke… mostly. Hacks is the feel-good story of the television business right now. It’s firing on all cylinders – funny as f-ck, relevant, vulnerable, and nothing we’ve seen before, while also feeling like it’s a collection of super-familiar friends we By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 08:44 am
Break Ups Bennifer… again?! Interrupting our Emmys coverage because this was the biggest gossip story to emerge out of the weekend and by tomorrow, who knows, something else might come up with these two drama queens so we might as well get it out the way now. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 08:22 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Is the tide turning against The Bear? I’ve been saying since practically day one that The Bear is not a comedy and should not be nominated as a comedy at the Emmys. After three seasons of increasingly stressful kitchen meltdowns and family get-togethers, people are pretty much universally wondering why The Bear is categorized as a By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 08:07 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper A Shōgun Record “Oh ye of little faith” – that was me the last few days, and especially since the Creative Arts Emmys, where Shōgun picked 14 Emmy wins. The series came into the Emmys with a record 25 nominations and my worry was that the Television Academy will honour it with the “tech” By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 07:50 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Intro for September 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, As Sarah, Duana, and I have said over the years, and we’ve been doing this for years, we’re never going to be the people who complain about award shows. We are award show junkies, and not just because it’s our job. Even when they’re By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 07:27 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be live chatting the Emmys on Sunday, September 15 starting at 7:30 PM ET. Join us! Michelle Williams at the Deauville Film Festival in France. I really like the black outfit. The gown sort of looks like a bathmat. (Go Fug Yourself) Is fall the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hyun Bin in Harbin South Korean filmmaker Woo Min-ho has a knack for thrillers, having previously made the spy thriller The Man Standing Next, Inside Men, and The Spies, though that film takes a more comedic approach to the genre. His latest film is another spy thriller, Harbin, which fictionalizes the 1909 assassination of By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 03:17 pm
Top Reads Justin Timberlake “could have made a different decision” Justin Timberlake appeared in court in Sag Harbour today to plead guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired after making a deal with the prosecutors. He was ordered by the judge to pay a fine of $500; his drivers licence is suspended in New York state for 90 By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 02:24 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 13, 2024 Now what did I say about Dave Grohl’s baby being the beginning of the story? The dominoes are starting to fall. Threads hasn’t made a huge cultural impact; it’s not at the point where it is a communication tool for rock stars to announce out-of-wedlock babies. That By Maria • Sep 13, 2024 02:01 pm
Music Outfit of the Week: Charli XCX in autumn brown Before Taylor Swift, there was Charli XCX. Kamala Harris + brat characterised the early days of the Vice President’s candidacy – a totally organic viral sensation originating from Charli’s spontaneous tweet: “kamala is brat”. MVP’s campaign immediately and astutely seized upon the moment on her social channels, and Gen By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 01:33 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: Chanel, Sunset, Shannon It was so strange seeing John Janssen in the audience on Watch What Happens Live last night, and even more strange to see him participating in the show, stuttering to answer how Shannon Beador disparaged him. He made all these claims that she turned his life into a public spectacle, By Stephanie • Sep 13, 2024 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Andrea Arnold’s Bird Andrea Arnold’s work is often concerned with animals, whether it’s the horse of Fish Tank, the turtle of American Honey, or the titular cow in Cow. In Bird, there are, yes, birds. But there are also horses, dogs, foxes, fish, and a patch of green thriving on the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stephen King saved Salem’s Lot Spooky season, pumpkin spice season, sweater weather time, autumn, fall, whatever your preferred terminology, we’re almost there, and that means it’s time to start looking at trailers for all the scary movies coming in October. Salem’s Lot would be notable at any time, as it is one By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen’s strategic lunch While hanging out during TIFF, Lainey and I were talking about paparazzi photos, and I said that ever since taking over editing the site on Fridays, I’ve really come to appreciate the celebrities who get their picture taken when they have trailers and new movies, etc, dropping. It’s By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 10:29 am
Shout-Outs September 13, 2024 – Shout-Outs This is Gus, sometimes I call him Gusford or Gussington or Gus-Gus, he’s five years old and I’ve known him since he was eight weeks, when my best friend Fiona and her husband Kiu first brought him home. Gus is a very good boy. He’s goofy and By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 10:00 am
Intro for September 13, 2024 Dear Gossips, First, we will be live chatting the Emmys on Sunday, September 15, on The Squawk starting at 7:30 PM ET. Join us! And now in Why Are Disney Adults Like This news, an Arizona couple’s years-long legal battle with Disney came to an end, when a By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 08:57 am
