Media Manipulation Fawning over the Foreign Press The Hollywood Foreign Press Association held a luncheon yesterday in Beverly Hills. You remember what Amy and Tina said of the HFPA at the Golden Globes? “There is no known cure for the Hollywood Foreign Press.” I just watched their opening monologue again. God that James Cameron joke still lands By Lainey • Aug 14, 2013 09:05 am
Intro for August 14, 2013 Dear Gossips, Sandra Oh announced yesterday that she’s leaving Grey’s Anatomy. There’s no drama. There was no tantrum. And you don’t have to be Nostradamus to know that she won’t be sh-tting on the show at the end of it. Simply, for her, she thinks By Lainey • Aug 14, 2013 08:30 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Olivia matches The dress is OK. I don’t love it, I don’t hate it. What do you think of the matchy-matchy-ness of it though? With the shoes and the clutch picking up the green on her body? Too much or exactly right? By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 04:51 pm
Hair Yes it does! Jennifer Aniston was on The Kyle & Jackie Show (radio) the other day talking about her hair. Apparently her hair crush is Kate Moss: “We all want somebody else’s hair. I love Kate Moss’s hair. It’s that rolled-out-of-bed look. Somehow she can wear a couture dress and By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 04:33 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Don't call her Mrs Affleck Jennifer Garner covers the new ALLURE. You'll have to help me out with this one, please. Because there's a quote here that I have some questions about. On why she and Ben don't do a lot of carpets together, Garner said: "Sometimes it& By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 02:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Say Terpsichore Five Times Fast Hi Duana, I'm due in two weeks with a girl and we are struggling with names. I think you will be up for the challenge. My husband is British and has a very posh last name which got him beat up quite a bit as a kid (he By Duana • Aug 13, 2013 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Rockwell riding his bike Look, we don’t need an excuse to enjoy Sam Rockwell. He’s riding his bike in Greenwich Village. Enjoy. We also don’t need an excuse to talk about Sam Rockwell. This is what I want to say about Sam Rockwell today because I just saw The Way, Way By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 12:40 pm
Girly Throw Downs The other authors hate GOOP As reported yesterday, Gwyneth Paltrow was at the Author’s Night fundraiser in the Hamptons this weekend with Chris Martin and her kids to sign copies of her book. Christina Oxenberg was the author placed beside G at the signing table. Oxenberg wrote about the experience here. In short, Gwyneth’ By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 12:27 pm
Girly Throw Downs Over to you Nicole…and Cate, and Julia, and Sandy And Kate and Marion and how many others? It was reported yesterday that Meryl Streep will not be contending for Best Actress Oscar this year. Instead, her performance in August: Osage County will be submitted in the supporting category which means that she and Julia Roberts won’t be going By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 12:17 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Keri’s black jumpsuit Is AWESOME. But whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did she wear those shoes. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??? The jumpsuit was killed by the shoes. By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 11:49 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Massage benefits I love your column, and among the many questions I'd like to ask, this one stuck out to me today as I cringed shelling out $$ for yet another lunchtime massage: are there really health benefits to getting regular massages? I practice yoga (vinyasa flow) regularly, and multiple instructors By Hayley • Aug 13, 2013 11:29 am
Music Katy, Rihanna, and Gaga Girl Sh-t Is The Best Shit. It should be the subtitle of this blog -- LaineyGossip: Girl Sh-t Is The Best Sh-t. Why? Because Brenda and Kelly, Blair and Serena, the Barden Bellas -- friendships are complicated and exhilarating and dramatic, both as you experience them and as you observe By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 11:05 am
Girlcrushes Kerry can sing All of us here at LaineyGossip have been girlcrushing on Kerry Washington for months, Duana in particular. I should show you some of the emails she sends me: “Kerry said this!” “Kerry dropped a reference in an interview that no one else understand, because they hadn’t read xxwhateverbookxxx.” Needless By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Actor with no personality plays tree Remember when I wrote about Vin Diesel maybe making something happen at Marvel, and I was like, Ugh, please just let him be the space tree that barely speaks? Well guess what? He’s the tree. Diesel, after weeks of buildup via Facebook and some pretty blatant campaigning, is in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2013 09:56 am
Oprah Winfrey Intro for August 13, 2013 Dear Gossip, Oprah Winfrey went to a luxury goods store in Switzerland and wanted to look at a very expensive bag. She says the salesperson refused her service because “that one’s too expensive”, suggesting that the clerk assumed that Opes, being black, couldn’t afford the tote. The story By Lainey • Aug 13, 2013 09:32 am
Gross Madonna: birthday paintball/Sean Penn: birthday in Ibiza Both Madonna and Sean Penn celebrate birthdays this week, a day apart. She’ll turn 55 on August 16 and he’ll be 53 on August 17. It’s been almost 25 years since they divorced. 25 YEARS!!? Yesterday Madonna was celebrating another birthday – her son, Rocco is now 13. By Lainey • Aug 12, 2013 05:00 pm
