Rachel Bilson Rachel Bilson's candid cost This week, on her podcast, Broad Ideas, Rachel Bilson revealed that she’s never faked an orgasm. Despite classifying herself as a people pleaser, she explains never pretending to climax just to make a sexual partner feel good. “Am I an asshole?” she asked. “I start to go into that By Stephanie • Jun 13, 2023 01:36 pm
Douchebags Bennifer: Carpet Kissing and a Trump F-U Let’s get the garbage out of the way first. Near the end of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, Air, Matt’s character, Sonny Vaccaro, delivers a monologue for Michael Jordan and his parents as he tries to persuade the Jordans to sign with Nike. It’s a By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and The Flash Over the last couple of months, Sarah and I have been mulling over how to cover The Flash. We don’t talk about it all the time, but when it comes up it’s one of those conversations that exasperates both of us – because it’s part of our job By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 11:47 am
Top Reads The HFPA is dead Over the last couple years, we have been on a journey with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. To recap: in February 2021, the Los Angeles Times ran an expose just days before the Golden Globes exposing the HFPA for shady ethical practices and for having zero By Sarah • Jun 13, 2023 10:41 am
Music Intro for June 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, June 13 is a big deal every year for BTS and their ARMY – June 13, 2013 is when the band made its debut. Today, then, is the 10th anniversary. Landmarks in Seoul have been lit up in purple to mark the occasion and all across the country there By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 10:11 am
What Else What Else? Jodie Comer won her first Tony Award last night which means she’s halfway to the EGOT with an Emmy and Tony and it’s just a matter of time before she does some voice work for a Grammy and there’s no doubt she’ll be nominated for an By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 04:05 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 12, 2023 Instagram engagement is a mess and it is on the brink of becoming to Zillennials what Facebook is to Millennials (embarrassing digital relic). That’s why there’s a noticeable shift in how celebrities use it. Like Twitter, it has become more formal and much less conversational as celebrities hand By Maria • Jun 12, 2023 03:12 pm
Sports Jake, Jeanne, and Tom at the French Open Jake Gyllenhaal was in a pink shirt yesterday at Roland Garros for the French Open men’s final as Novak Djokovic won his 23rd Grand Slam and became the first man to win all four slams at least three times each. Jake was there with his longtime girlfriend, French model By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 01:24 pm
Douchebags Tenoch Huerta: Another (alleged) bad man In a depressingly routine development, Tenoch Huerta has been accused of sexual assault. On Saturday morning, María Elena Ríos, a musician and activist, tweeted in response to Poder Prieto, an artists’ collective which includes Huerta, that “they protect the violator and sexual PREDATOR @TenochHuerta” (translation mine, emphasis hers). Though she By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 12:21 pm
Gorgessity Lupita and Lily: Tonys Best Dressed I’ve been sleeping on Lily Rabe’s style – and that’s a mistake. I first realised this last week when I saw her outfit at the Tribeca premiere of her directorial debut Downtown Owl. This dress is amazing on her. So then I started poking around at some of By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 11:08 am
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant and A Daughter We are just over one month out from the return of Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval. That means Timothy Olyphant is more visible right now than he is usually, and after the ATX TV Festival in Austin earlier this month, he was in New York City over the weekend By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 10:04 am
Gorgessity Rachel Weisz gets into a cab There’s nothing all that special, really, about these shots of Rachel Weisz on a sunny day in London hailing a cab. It’s just that I happened to see these photos and remember the final line of an article I read a few years ago in The Cut by By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 09:27 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, History was made at the Tony Awards last night as Alex Newell and J Harrison Ghee became the first openly nonbinary actors to win awards. Alex won the Tony for Featured Actor in a Musical for their performance in Shucked and J Harrison won the Tony for Leading By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Shawn Mendes released a single overnight titled “What The Hell Are We Dying For?” It appears to be a breakup track—must be off again, after all, with Camila Cabello—and the opening lyrics are, “Smoke in the air/The city’s burning down”. The artwork for the single is By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine Song’s remarkable Past Lives Playwright Celine Song makes her feature directorial debut with Past Lives, a work of remarkable delicacy and humor about fate, connections, and the narratives we event for our lives. Drawing on Song’s own background as a Korean-Canadian immigrant who ends up a writer in New York, Past Lives tells By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 03:44 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 9, 2023 “Jane Fonda! People would call the police,” made me literally laugh out loud. The Wilsons are a very photogenic family. Look how grown up Future is! Every once in a while a tweet about Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s family wealth (her father was a billionaire) goes viral, like “Did you know By Maria • Jun 09, 2023 03:07 pm
