Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Relationship Assumption Olivia and Jason: Also Moving On Speaking of amicable splits – or acrimonious to amicable – Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis were seen smiling together and hugging this weekend in LA. According to TMZ, they’d just come from a meeting together, and obviously whatever the meeting was about, it looks like it went well. Perhaps they’re By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 01:27 pm
Weddings Bennifer and Jennifer: Everyone Moves On Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen out with their kids this weekend in LA including Emme. I mention this because JLo’s ex and Emme’s dad, Marc Anthony, 54, married Nadia Ferreira, 23, this weekend in Miami. These shots of Emme with their mom and stepdad were taken By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 12:37 pm
Quiveration Michael B Jordan’s “Inner Animal” I posted last week about Michael B Jordan hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time and how much I was looking forward to him showcasing a different side of himself. That, after all, is the whole point. And that had to have factored into his reasoning for accepting the By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
TV Updates Intro for January 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, It was earlier on Friday than I expected as ABC announced that morning, after days of rumours, that Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes would not return to Good Morning America 3 after their affair was exposed. The news wasn’t a surprise but it wasn’t held By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 09:24 am
What Else What Else? Regé-Jean Page is the most handsome man in the world, it’s SCIENCE. Argue with a wall. (DListed) Morning show mess update: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are, to the surprise of no one, reportedly leaving Good Morning America after their inter-office affair gripped the nation. Give them their By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Lily Gladstone in Fancy Dance Lily Gladstone gives yet another powerhouse performance in Erica Tremblay’s quietly devastating drama, Fancy Dance, in which Gladstone stars as Jax, who is left to look after her niece, Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), when Jax’s sister disappears. Tremblay, making her narrative feature debut, fills her film with the quiet By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 03:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 27, 2023 The Madonna biopic is dead at Universal – not “paused” or “on hold” or “being retooled.” It’s over, which makes me think Madonna pulled the plug. She is such a perfectionist that a world tour and biopic at the same time would be too much, especially if she is directing. By Maria • Jan 27, 2023 02:27 pm
Jennifer Aniston Harry Styles, Jennifer Aniston, and Lenny Kravitz Harry Styles resumed his Love On Tour last night in Los Angeles after several weeks off for the holidays, and it was a star-packed crowd that included Ellen DeGeneres, who was celebrating her birthday, Portia De Rossi, and also Jennifer Aniston. It was Ellen who once asked Harry, in 2020, By Lainey • Jan 27, 2023 01:04 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Salma Hayek’s Fishnet Dress I fully acknowledge that there is a world in which I would not consider this a real outfit. On certain occasions, fishnet over a bra and underwear with some flowers stuck on it is not a real outfit. At any other premiere it is not a real outfit. But this By Lainey • Jan 27, 2023 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The sweet, sweet misery of Succession I recently read something on how there’s too many billionaires on TV and that it whitewashes the harm of hoarding wealth. (Loot was mentioned, as was Succession.) Succession isn’t a satire and no one is getting lifestyle envy from watching this show. They are incalculably rich and go By Maria • Jan 27, 2023 12:13 pm
TV Updates The Unified Chris Theory of celebrity names The party is starting, baby, and I cannot wait! The full trailer for Party Down season 3 dropped yesterday and no one’s life seems to be going great ten-plus years later, but no one has it worse than Ron Donald—Ken Marino, an underappreciated MVP of 2010s comedy—who By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 11:48 am
Equality Issues Amber Rose is stepping back Former model and video vixen Amber Rose appeared as a guest on the Sofia With an F podcast. She discussed a wide range of topics, from growing up in a poor family that lived in Philadelphia, to falling in love with Kanye West. She also discussed how she and her By Stephanie • Jan 27, 2023 11:24 am
Music Taylor Swift: The Archer and the Fish Taylor Swift announced last night that she’d be dropping the music video for “Lavender Haze” at midnight. This is the first track off Midnights and the third video she’s released from the album. Back in October she put together a teaser for all the videos she’d made; By Lainey • Jan 27, 2023 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Shortcomings Randall Park makes his directorial debut with Shortcomings, a non-rom-com centered on the kind of misanthropic twenty-something that could have been played by Ethan Hawke in the 1990s, but is now played by Justin H. Min (After Yang’s Yang). Adrian Tomine adapts his graphic novel of the same name, By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 09:48 am
