Best of 2009 Best of 2009: LipGloss & Covenant House Started the year not a fan… Am ending the year much more appreciative of LipGloss Zac Efron. It’s the vanity and the fawning that cockblocks the full support. Having said that, his gesture of kindness towards a youth at Covenant House Vancouver in October is a feelgood moment in By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 07:31 am
Bad Style Grounds for dismissal I get emails all the time about Henry Cavill arguing his case on the Freebie 5. Based on his hotness in The Tudors? Worthy of consideration, sure. But the way he looked at the Grand Prix Horse Show this weekend? It’s grounds for dismissal. It’s a major, major By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 05:21 am
Maple Leaf Rachel’s Vogue cover and the Size 4 headline It’s the much anticipated Vogue cover for January 2010 featuring Rachel McAdams. Our girl has her very own. You like it? Me, I’m underwhelmed. She looks so old, non? It’s the hair. Dean wrote to me just now that “I don’t understand what her hair is By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 04:18 am
Dumbass Lilo: on India and Rihanna Crack head is back from India where she claimed to have been on a humanitarian mission with the BBC to film a documentary on child trafficking, a decision that has come under heavy criticism. The Guardian asks the right question: What Has India Done to Deserve Lindsay Lohan? Child trafficking By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 03:53 am
Amazingness Best & Worst of 2009: Joaquin on Letterman Remember? He was still rapping in the early part 2009, falling off stages, getting into scraps with hecklers, his embarrassing “Bye Good” from acting obliterated the good will he’d earned from Walk the Line and other films, a respectable artist now reduced to a punchline, so low he was By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 02:45 am
Girlcrushes Marion & Guillaume: horses & hats First Ryan Gosling, now Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet … the week is looking more and more fried ricey. Yesterday in Paris at the Grand Prix Masters Gucci Horse Exposition my Marion and her Guillaume were together but didn’t pose together, both in all black and hats. She’s gorgeous By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 02:04 am
Girlcrushes Giving back on her birthday Oh Taylor Swift. Right now you are perfect. TSwizzle turned 20 yesterday and celebrated at her family home with family, friends, her band, and the crew, baking the night before to surprise her guests, and then, oh yeah, announcing she’d made a donation of $250K to educational programs around By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 01:38 am
Amazingness Best of 2009: Hugh Jackman He hosted the Oscars, he promoted the sh-t out of Wolverine, and earned a box office win, then he went to Broadway and pleased them onstage too, and through it all, always a smile, always gracious, always patient, even when surrounded by paps and fans, even at the airport when By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 01:20 am
Quiveration Ryan helps during finals Molly S wrote to me last week. First semester law school, finals week. She gave me a list to choose from for a distraction: James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Jon Hamm, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Gosling, Cory Monteith. Ryan Gosling doesn’t get papped too often. But he must have heard Molly’ By Lainey • Dec 14, 2009 01:11 am
Douchebags Ha. Ha. Ha. And this, motherf-cker, is what you call consequences. By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 09:25 am
Jessica Biel Portman, Austen, and zombies Oh Shelfy loses another one. Natalie Portman continues to work, continues to land interesting scripts, while Jessica Biel, who desperately wants those opportunites, isn’t, doesn’t, can’t. Portman is currently shooting Black Swan in New York for Darren Aronofsky with Mila Kunis. She’s taking Hesher to Sundance By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar is coming The cast of Avatar led by director James Cameron has been making its way across Europe promoting the film overseas before bringing it to North American for a final push before release date. Avatar opens on December 18th, one of the most expensive movies ever made, and riding on a By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 04:56 am
Sports Dave pries Only he can get away with it. No one tells Letterman what he can or cannot ask about. And while guests won’t always answer, he will always try. And be charming and funny about it. Which is what it was like last night when Kate Hudson appeared on his By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 04:13 am
Girlcrushes Emma’s blowout It’s like she’s walking around with a wind machine today – this is Emma Thompson with fresh highlights and a great blowout in Spain presenting “Journey” an exhibition about sex trafficking. It’s our usual animated, amazing Emma. Love her so much. Emma can currently be seen in two By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 03:51 am
Dumbass Please don’t encourage him The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They are feeding Pippy’s ego and worse, they are giving him encouragement to keep acting. If you’ve ever seen him in a movie, from Alpha Dog to Edison to Black Snake Moan to The Love Guru, well you know. You know that encouraging By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 02:59 am
Pitt "Porn" Pitt Porn, George, and the Italian Queen Super producer Jerry Weintraub was honoured last night at the UNICEF Ball which is why his boys showed up dutifully to support him with George Clooney presenting. George, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon and all with their ladies at one event. Needless to say, there was nowhere else to be. By Lainey • Dec 11, 2009 02:53 am
