TV Updates The Wiz casts Dorothy The NBC live musical, a hilarious adventure in livetweeting, has been, you know, roundly mocked for the last two years. Particularly when Allison Williams was cast as Peter Pan in last year’s production, the coughs of nepotism were very, very loud. So they’ve pulled out all the stops By Duana • Aug 05, 2015 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Name? Before I begin – my inbox is FULL of adorable grandparent names and malapropisms that became grandparent names. Compiling them for us all to enjoy later. Standby! Hi Duana, Where do we/you start?!? We are only just pregnant after trying for long time to conceive. We are very excited but By Duana • Aug 05, 2015 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill is standing on a couch The Man From U.N.C.L.E. comes out in a couple of weeks. So Henry Cavill is on the cover of UK Men’s Health probably talking about working out; the interview hasn’t been released yet, although I did find one detail that’s supposedly from the By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Katie thinks she’s Rihanna A chambray shirt, tight gym pants, a backpack, and heels… Very few people can make it all work together like that. Rihanna, certainly. Maybe Miley Cyrus. Definitely not Katie Holmes. I do like those Adidas kicks she has on though with her sweats. By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 03:21 pm
Cheating Loins Blake & Miranda: his and her cheating rumours IN TOUCH Magazine is reporting that Blake Shelton and Cady Groves hooked up and that’s why he and Miranda Lambert are over. Now Blake is threatening to sue IN TOUCH. According to TMZ, his lawyers have sent the magazine a letter warning that he’ll take them to court By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 12:59 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Kate Mara’s loose leather dress Love that this leather dress isn’t tight. And the bow on the one shoulder. Also that the hem appears to be unfinished. Totally works for this look. By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 11:44 am
Media Manipulation Now this is how you tease a movie with Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain Yesterday I expressed annoyance with Zoolander 2 for wasting everyone’s time (and Paramount’s money) with a teaser trailer that was nothing. If you can’t illuminate some aspect of the film itself, don’t bother—wait until you actually have something to say about your movie before opening By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 11:30 am
Break Ups Jennifer Garner: Diary of the Best Mom The cover of the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine features Jennifer Garner’s “heartbreak” with an inset of a crusty-looking Ben Affleck and the word “nanny” just below his face. How can the MiniVan Majority resist that? While the magazine makes a point of reiterating that Ben has denied the By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Photos of Brange By The Sea Brange’s By The Sea, written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt and starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, opens in November. We were hoping the film would hit the festival circuits, giving us some Pitt Porn in Venice and Toronto. That’s not happening. They’re just going to By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 10:22 am
Maple Leaf Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds might actually have pulled this off No one has had worse luck with superhero movies than Ryan Reynolds. He’s been in three superhero movies of varying levels of bad—Blade: Trinity, hilariously awful; Wolverine: Origins, spectacularly bad; Green Lantern, disastrous—and if you add the completely misguided R.I.P.D., a non-superhero comic book By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 10:11 am
Music Drake vs a wedgie Drake and Meek Mill have been at it for a couple of weeks now. Or more like Drake has been pretty much destroying Meek ever since last week when he dropped two diss tracks and Meek could only manage a weak response. Click here for a refresher. This weekend at By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 09:41 am
Break Ups Intro for August 5, 2015 Dear Gossips, The summer of the split continues. This time… Miss Piggy and Kermit. They confirmed yesterday that they are no longer together although they could be if presented with the right offer – probably a movie deal? By the way, because these things matter, it was Piggy who walked: “After By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 09:04 am
Quiveration This man is not Bond and no one understands Needed this on a sh-tty day… Idris Elba covers Maxim. And they point out that he probably won’t be the next James Bond – right now it’s looking like it could be Damian Lewis because…I don’t know why. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t think By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 04:49 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, Tuesday August 4, 2015 So your best friend is a supermodel and you are both social media stars. You want to wish her a Happy Birthday and from the (literally) thousands of shots you can choose, you pull one out of your phone that has your boyfriend front and centre and your friend stirring By Maria • Aug 04, 2015 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit is happening for sure Despite recent reports that Channing Tatum’s negotiations to play Gambit in an X-Men spin-off movie were falling apart, The Hollywood Reporter states that he’s closed his deal and will not only produce Gambit but will star in it, too, as was the intention all along. The news that By Sarah • Aug 04, 2015 04:11 pm
BFFs Vanity Fair and the Swift Sisterhood The interview with Vanity Fair happened in London a few weeks ago, well before Nicki Minaj gave her some real talk on Twitter. At the time, if you recall, she was girl squading all over her stage. Serena Williams was there. Cara Delevingne and the model crew were there. At By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 03:48 pm