What Else What Else? Martin Short is many things, among them one of the THE BEST talk show guests in the game. He even makes Jimmy Fallon seem good at his job for a minute. (Popsugar) Brandi Glanville isn’t apologizing for something, surprise, surprise. (DListed) Morfydd Clark is the most excellently named star By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 04:06 pm
Equality Issues The Academy apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather Forty-nine years after she declined Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar in 1973, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather for her treatment during and after her speech, in which she spoke against negative stereotyping and representation of American Indians in By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 03:24 pm
Equality Issues Tevin Campbell comes out This week, during a podcast with People, R&B singer Tevin Campbell confirmed what many people long suspected, that he identifies as a gay man. Suspicions began ages ago, dating back to the beginning of his career, when he was 12. For years, he remained tight-lipped about his sexuality, By Stephanie • Aug 19, 2022 02:52 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 19, 2022 I don’t read a lot about Riverdale or its stars but this headline made me LOL: Lili Reinhart says actors aren’t allowed to ‘kiss with tongue’ on CW shows. Do any network shows allow tongue kissing? Like do people go full open mouth on Grey’s Anatomy or By Maria • Aug 19, 2022 02:14 pm
Weddings Bennifer’s Weekend Wedding When we last checked on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, they were in New York, having spent part of the weekend there before packing up for Georgia, which is where they are now. It’s their wedding reception weekend. It was leaked a few weeks ago, following their marriage in By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 01:33 pm
Music “Pink Venom” In Your Area BLACKPINK’s new song and video, “Pink Venom”, dropped last night. It’s a good song, I’m bouncing in my chair right now with the chorus, “This, that pink venom, this, that pink venom”. But we open on the geomungo, a Korean instrument played in the video by Jisoo By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The time of their lives: Dirty Dancing at 35 Want to experience the crushing passage of time? Dirty Dancing was released thirty-five years ago, on August 21, 1987. It remains one of the most enduringly popular films of the 1980s, a foundational text in the contemporary romantic drama canon. But it’s also an artifact of 1980s nostalgia, as By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 12:02 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt gets away Brad Pitt has been making headlines all week – and even with the assist from major entertainment outlets, they’re not the kind of headlines he and his PR team would be happy with. Let’s start with Make It Right, Brad’s foundation. Make It Right made Brad Pitt look By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry and Olivia’s New York premiere Harry Styles played two shows in Toronto earlier this week, and it was kind of a spectacle – and I’m not talking about the concerts (although, of course his performances were amazing), but about the city’s reaction to him being in town. Downtown was buzzing and they were doing By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 10:00 am
TV Updates Intro for August 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, I am sorry to inform you that the HBO Max f-ckery continues. The latest is that they’re removing thirty-six titles from the platform, twenty of which are HBO Max originals. That matters because the originals are in danger of becoming completely inaccessible. Shows without outside ownership stakes By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 09:15 am
What Else What Else? Barbie-core is still going, and going, and here’s Heidi Klum continuing the trend and we’re in for another year or more of this because the movie doesn’t come out until next summer and when that happens, Barbie-core will be even more in-our-eyeballs than it is now. Heidi’ By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 04:05 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 18, 2022 Internet sleuths are theorizing that there are issues between Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox and they just took a pap walk. Coincidence or conspiracy? Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. looks so good but it’s on Peacock, a streaming service that endlessly confuses me. I will track this By Maria • Aug 18, 2022 03:50 pm
Break Ups Brad Pitt: Media and PR connections As I wrote in my previous post today about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , it’s been interesting following the media coverage and specifically how Brad Pitt’s position is being presented. On that note, this is what Omid Scobie, who was working at Wenner Media’s Us Weekly when By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 02:29 pm
TV Updates Chanel Ayan speaks out If Real Housewives brings to mind thoughts of rich, drunk bitches fighting and flipping tables, I can’t fault you. After all, the franchise follows the lives of the rich and famous in different cities across the world – and alcohol seems to be a permanent fixture on the show. But By Stephanie • Aug 18, 2022 12:31 pm
Media Manipulation Himpathy for Brad Pitt Over the last few days, since Puck News reported an update on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed anonymously by Jane Doe (aka Angelina Jolie) against the FBI, I’ve been wondering how the mainstream media and major entertainment outlets would handle the situation. Both Angelina and Brad Pitt By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 11:53 am
Music Intro for August 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, BLACKPINK in your area… Not too long now. Tonight at midnight, the new single “Pink Venom” will be released along with the music video and the “Light Up The Pink” campaign has been announced in multiple cities around the world: In New York City the Brooklyn Bridge will By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 09:44 am
