Mariah Carey Intro for December 2, 2014 Dear Gossips, Did you know it’s the 20th anniversary of Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas? What kind of a lamb am I that I totally forgot? As you know, Christmas belongs to Mimi. Dean wrote about this a couple of years ago – 3 Rules For A Very Mimi Christmas. By Lainey • Dec 02, 2014 09:15 am
Top Reads World AIDS Day 2014 Today is World AIDS Day. Last year, 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses and 35 million people around the world were living with AIDS. In Canada, one person is infected with HIV every 3 hours. And a quarter of those who are HIV-positive in Canada don’t know By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 04:54 pm
Media Manipulation Boyhood, Marion, and Vern You ever watch Oz? JK Simmons played Vern Schillinger. It took me a long time not to see him as Vern anymore. And I don’t. Now I don’t. Now I either see him as Juno’s dad or Miles Teller’s mentor adversary in Whiplash. For which he By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake’s Raging Bull Hurricane This is what Jake Gyllenhaal will look like in Antoine Fuqua’s film Southpaw next year. According to Fuqua, Jake’s dedication to the role and his subsequent transformation are so extraordinary, it’s worthy of very impressive comparison: “Two people have done this in their lives,” Fuqua told Variety By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 03:45 pm
Weddings Scarlett Can Keep A Secret A-list actress, a baby and a wedding – this makes for some seriously headline click-bait for most websites. But today, a Monday after a sleepy US Thanksgiving weekend, there’s a story buried on PEOPLE about Scarlett Johansson possibly marrying Romain Dauriac (via NY Post). Details are scarce, as in there By Maria • Dec 01, 2014 03:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Untenable Kenneth Hi Duana! I have been following your Name Nerd column for a long time, and I need some help. My husband and I have baby #2 on the way, and we are stuck. We do not know what we are having, but we do not have major issues with girl By Duana • Dec 01, 2014 02:41 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Answers: Our noisy neighbours upstairs Dear Sasha, In June my bff and I moved into our first apartment in Toronto and we love city living! Just as clarification we live in the basement apartment in a townhouse triplex complex. In the past 5-6 months we have had no noise complaints and we have people over By Sasha • Dec 01, 2014 01:52 pm
Hook Ups Miley’s Thanksgiving weekend Patrick Schwarzenegger is Miley Cyrus’s first significant relationship since she and Liam Hemsworth ended their engagement. It’s actually only been a year. Feels like longer for sure because that final six months, when it’s on and then off and neither wants to admit it’s done, was By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 01:24 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Answers: Leaving my boyfriend for my best friend I just got out of a 10 year relationship that went on 9 years longer than it should have. We were mismatched on everything and I should have left sooner but was comfortable and complacent. Realizing I love my best friend gave me motivation to leave. I have not told By Sasha • Dec 01, 2014 12:52 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Gwen’s pinstriped dropcrotch When/if I ever get myself a pair of these, I’m never taking them off, winter, summer, always. By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 12:39 pm
Amazingness Table posing Who poses harder than Victoria Beckham? Maybe Lea Michele. Pffft. Can Lea Michele pull of a TABLE POSE though? God these crack me up. You didn’t expect Posh to just sit a table without cocking something, did you? When she poses on a carpet, she cocks the hip. When By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 12:15 pm
Gorgessity Michael Fassbender surfs with Alicia Vikander Michael Fassbender is in Australia working on a film called The Light Between Oceans with Alicia Vikander. They play husband and wife. But it’s not a romance. He looks after a lighthouse. Their marriage is strained because she can’t have children. Then a baby shows up in a By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:29 am
Dumbass Diversity in Film: The problem at the top On Friday Rupert Murdoch, elderly white man, took to Twitter to address the whitewashing casting controversy that has surrounded the upcoming movie Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. Christian Bale plays Moses, a Hebrew, Joel Edgerton is the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses, and Sigourney Weaver is their mother, Tuya, also Egyptian. In fact, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 11:17 am
Media Manipulation Angelina presents Unbroken Angelina Jolie and her cast were in LA yesterday to screen Unbroken at the Writers Guild of America. There were influential Oscar voters in the audience. And press. And now that the embargo has been lifted, we finally have a better idea of whether or not Unbroken can get to By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:06 am
Media Manipulation British Contenders and their fiancees Benedict Cumberbatch and fiancée Sophie Hunter (in Erdem) attended the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards together last night. Of course he’d be there. Because even though he’s been hustling his balls off for an Oscar, that voice was meant for the stage, don’t you know? And he’ By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 10:42 am
Relationship Assumption Vanessa doesn’t look back Would you? With what you know now of Johnny Depp, would you look back? I wouldn’t. Not if I’m Vanessa Paradis. There’s only so much of that bullsh-t you can handle. It’s Amber Heard’s problem now. Check out an affectionate Vanessa this weekend in Paris By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 10:23 am
