Xenu A Big NOT Sci party Here’s what’s weird: Every night I scan the photo agencies so I can get a sense of what I might write about the next day. These photos were up right before I went to bed – Will Smith with Jada and Tom Cruise and several other celebrities and the By Lainey • Jul 13, 2010 04:31 am
Amazingness Spot the difference Tom Cruise at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Mission Impossible 3 in 2006 or Taylor Lautner in Pittsburgh yesterday shooting Abduction? Please. It’s everything. It’s the body type, it’s the mannerisms, it’s the overacting, it’s everything. And these days, Tom Cruise Jr has a By Lainey • Jul 13, 2010 03:57 am
Hook Ups Don’t call Jen If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, even back when it was just a newsletter, you’ll know that for years I’ve been trying to make Jennifer Aniston and John Stamos happen. For years. The universe kept denying me. Now possibly forever. Stamos is involved in an By Lainey • Jul 13, 2010 03:22 am
Quiveration It’s gone! Angelina Jolie wrapped on a movie with Johnny Depp, now it’s time for Brad Pitt to go to work while she hangs back with the children. Work means no nasty beard. And here’s Brad on the set of Moneyball the other day with that sh-t off his face. By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 10:35 am
James Franco Franco the Artist in Vancouver For Caesar: Rise of the Apes with Freida Pinto and John Lithgow. Lithgow dined with Steve Martin yesterday at Blue Water Cafe. And Freida was spotted out and about downtown. James Franco, the lead, and my former #1, hit up a movie on Sunday. He went to see Predators. Looks By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 10:17 am
Sports She flies with the team SHE FLIES WITH THE TEAM. F-ck the Italian Queen Elisabetta Canalis. It’s Sara now. Sara Carbonero FLIES WITH THE TEAM. Do you see any other WAGs on the plane? I don’t. Not during this video. I see man. All man. And Sara. Next to Iker Casillas. Sure, it’ By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 08:50 am
Maple Leaf Degrassi Takes Manhattan Many of you wrote following Duana’s article on Lauryn Hill a couple of weeks ago to ask what her “proper writing job” is. Answer: Duana is a member of the Degrassi writing team. She is currently working on the new season – the 10th! – and she was one of 4 By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 08:45 am
Justin Timberlake Fit Pippy’s new trailer Justin Timberlake is currently in New York working on a movie with Mila Kunis called Friends with Benefits, or something, which is like the thing that Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher wrapped on a couple of months ago. Pip is spending his off time staying in shape, seen running the By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 08:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Norton canned from The Avengers which means... Written by Sarah We have a new casting race. The Avengers is about as high-profile as a project comes. From the moment that Marvel Studios announced their intent to bring all of the early Marvel comic icons to the big screen, the scrutiny and expectations have been almost unbearable. The By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 07:38 am
Parent Pimps 30 > 29 Feng shui speaking, 29 isn’t a great year. I had a terrible 29, and almost all my friends too. For me, in the lunar cycle, at 29 The Ox has to eat some sh-t. And I did. And so did my Porny last year. On her 29th birthday Tony By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 05:23 am
Break Ups It’s ok Looks like French gossips are about as reliable as the ones in UK. There are apparently certain French outlets that hate Marion Cotillard and Guillaume and I remember, at the AMFAR event in Cannes this year, we were stationed beside a French news agency, and after Dylan and I salivated By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 04:39 am
Bad Style The Fringe is gone...but those tights This is for a reader called Kris who wrote to me last week with a request: I've developed a completely inappropriate amount of quiver for Sam Worthington. And I need your help. To kill it or, at least, dampen it slightly? His weeness has not detracted from the By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 03:46 am
Weddings People getting married So many people getting married. Got married. Am sure you’ve heard: Carrie Underwood to Mike Fisher, Emily Blunt to John Krasinski... The wedding details should be available on the cover of a magazine some time soon. Can’t wait to see Country Bitch’s gown. Somehow she always tacks By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 03:26 am
Quiveration Hamm in uniform Feels like it’ll be a long week ahead. Jon Hamm came along to make it easier. Suddenly the day seems a little more promising. Jon participated yesterday in the All Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game in Anaheim. As usual, he was everyone’s favourite, even the other famous By Lainey • Jul 12, 2010 03:04 am
Gwyneth Paltrow GOOPy in Paris and a swing Really want to wash the stank of Mel Gibson off to start the weekend. Why not with some GOOP? Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted in Paris with her daughter yesterday. She was in town for a Valentino dinner – they’re, like, best friends you know – and is spending a few more By Lainey • Jul 09, 2010 11:19 am
Girly Throw Downs Dear Mel: you’re done It’s been two weeks of Mel Gibson leaks. Summary: he’s racist, he’s allegedly abusive, he allegedly beat the sh-t out of his baby mother Oksana Grigorieva, and they’re haggling over it in court, and there are tapes. She denies releasing the tapes. And so far there By Lainey • Jul 09, 2010 11:03 am