Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 17, 2015 Dear Gossips, If it was a long weekend for you as it was for me (Family Day in parts of Canada/Presidents Day in the US), I hope you’re rested. Because, finally, it’s Oscar Week! But first… Chinese New Year on Thursday! We have a few more signs By Lainey • Feb 17, 2015 07:59 am
Media Manipulation Gwyneth will be there Yes! Yasssss! Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted this today: Dear @TheAcademy I humbly accept your offer to present at this year’s #Oscars #WhereMySpanxat— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) February 13, 2015 Now. After you finish rolling your eyes, can you admit that this makes the Oscars more fun? To know that she' By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 04:13 pm
BFFs Taylor Swift & Karlie Kloss: VOGUE yearbook March issue of VOGUE. Best friends Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss on the cover. It’ll likely become one of the most talked-about covers of the year. You remember last year when I gave her the nickname “The Friend Collector”? This is a The Friend Collector’s Ultimate Achievement. By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beware of Crimson Peak There’s a steadily growing swell of hype surrounding Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, which released its first trailer today (spurred on by a bootleg copy making the rounds after it debuted in front of Fifty Shades of Grey last night—when will studios learn that they cannot stop By Sarah • Feb 13, 2015 03:11 pm
Maple Leaf Everybody is Beyonce I mean I guess you can’t do something like this anymore without mentioning her. And she wants the credit, godammit! (Or at least Kanye West does.) Drake released a short film yesterday. Then, last night, a new album. Tape? He’s calling it a tape. Collection? Whatever. It’s By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella steeze Cinderella is screening at the Berlinale, and the cast appeared at a photocall and press conference today in Berlin to begin promoting the movie. (There’s also a new trailer featuring some serious horse porn, if you like big Baroque horses, like me.) It’s official—I have a Robb By Sarah • Feb 13, 2015 01:32 pm
Gorgessity Dakota to the Oscars As I wrote in my Fifty Shades Of Grey review yesterday, Dakota Johnson is the discovery of the movie. She makes it. And this took me by surprise, how much I enjoyed watching her, hearing her. Because Anastasia Steele was such a f-cking dullard in the book. And they By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 01:05 pm
Models First rule of the Pussy Posse You do not talk about the Pussy Posse. This week was the launch party for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue which apparently is still a thing – print lives! At the party, a very enterprising journalist from Cosmopolitan posed an important anthropological question to several models: Has Leo ever hit on By Maria • Feb 13, 2015 12:18 pm
Bad Style My Obsession’s style London premiere of Fifty Shades Of Grey. You going tonight, or what? Don’t pretend you’re not. Last night the movie set an R-rated record with $8.6 million at the box office. Entertainment Weekly is projecting $93 million for the four day weekend. That includes many of By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 12:11 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Celeb Finds: JLo, Kanye's Wife, Biel, and Reese Fashion Friday time so let’s hit this so you can get your weekend started! First up it’s all about JLO and her sweats. I got a lot of wants and needs for them so you can all cop them over at the brand’s site here (1). And By Sasha • Feb 13, 2015 11:55 am
Media Manipulation Michael Keaton’s last minute push This Best Actor race is the tightest category face-off in years. Like Lainey wrote yesterday, it might be too close to call. But since Oscar voting ends on Tuesday, the top three contenders — Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton and Bradley Cooper — are now in the final phase of campaigning, which By Joanna • Feb 13, 2015 11:44 am
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: Awesome Sweatpants Hi Sasha! Lainey posted a pic of herself in these awesome adorable sweatpants and I want some too! I need them to be cuffed and cute and fun prints like hers and ideally no more than 150.00 if that! SO much thanks to you!!!! K --- Yes, Lainey sure does By Sasha • Feb 13, 2015 11:39 am
Style Rihanna wins Kanye West presented his new Adidas collection yesterday at NY Fashion Week. Beyonce and JayZ were there. Even Anna Wintour was there. And Justin Bieber had to sit in the second row. But the most stylish person at the event? Rihanna. Always Rihanna. Close second: the ridiculously beautiful Alexander Wang. By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 11:22 am
How To Get Away With Murder An Arrest Has Been Made How To Get Away With Murder Season 1 Episode 12 recap. Well. Now we’re moving things along. It’s coming fast and furious, revelations about each of the Mouseketeers, greater insight into Annalise, and, inexplicably, the best case of the week we’ve seen yet. So. For weeks I’ By Duana • Feb 13, 2015 10:34 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Aberforth mirror Taylor Swift loves the number 13. And since it’s Friday the 13th, she just dropped the video for Style, easily one of the best, if not the best, songs on the 1989 album. Also, not surprisingly, she’s wearing shorts. I love Style. So I was really, really looking By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 10:21 am
Baby and Bump Obsession What we learn from Blake & Cindy Did I mention I got another job? I’m still blogging here, of course. And working as a reporter for etalk and one of the hosts of The Social. Now though I’m also a monthly columnist for FLARE Magazine. My first column is featured in the new issue and By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 10:08 am
