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
What Else What Else? Jon Bon Jovi saved a life the other day. He was in Nashville, filming on a bridge, and there was someone in crisis. And it was Jon, along with a colleague, who was able to deescalate the situation. Jon actually has experience in these situations through his foundation. And in By Lainey • Sep 12, 2024 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 12, 2024 Lainey wrote about Blake Lively’s interesting timing with this PEOPLE story and Blake Brown has started posting again. But not about Blake specifically and I wonder, for her partners, if there’s a bit of annoyance because the whole thing hinges on HER hair and right now, that hair By Maria • Sep 12, 2024 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl The Coppola filmmaking dynasty is full of notable directors, writers, and actors, and with The Last Showgirl, director Gia Coppola announces herself as the latest Francis-spawn (he’s her grandfather) that must be taken seriously. Nine years after her feature directorial debut, Palo Alto, Coppola delivers a film that feels By Sarah • Sep 12, 2024 02:36 pm
Equality Issues Justin Timberlake: Pleading and Privileged Vice President Kamala Harris, the presidential debate, and Taylor Swift have dominated the western news cycle this week. Also the VMAs and Shannon Sharpe, LOL. There have been two celebrity beneficiaries of all of these headlines: Dave Grohl (who Maria posted about yesterday) and also Justin Timberlake. White man privilege By Lainey • Sep 12, 2024 02:12 pm