TV Updates Intro for June 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Umbrella Academy is among the most popular series on Netflix. Season three premiered yesterday on Netflix and it’s the first time Elliot Page is promoting the show as who he really is. Elliot’s character, Viktor, transitions this season, in parallel with Elliot in real life, By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 09:36 am
What Else What Else? The world is hell but there have been some bright spots this week. The best part obviously is that Beyoncé told us that it’s time for summer. There’s also joy in these videos of Justin Timberlake dancing – and Twitter’s reaction to it. The tweets have been beautiful. By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 04:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 22, 2022 Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson celebrated their ten-year anniversary with a vow renewal and party. Twitter in particular has a lot of opinions about this. I don’t necessarily think they care about people’s opinion, but they must be aware of it because comments are limited. Yesterday, Sarah posted about By Maria • Jun 22, 2022 03:49 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things is still running up that hill I make fun of the increasingly convoluted titles of the Mission: Impossible franchise all the time, but let’s be honest, Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 is a mouthful, too. The “volume 1” and “volume 2” split of season four is assumed to be the result of Netflix seeking to By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 01:56 pm
BFFs Angelina and Salma together again Sarah wrote a couple of weeks ago about Angelina Jolie adding Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir to the cast in a new film she’s directing, Without Blood . Filming is already underway and here are some shots of Angelina and Salma together on set. They’ve been close since they By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 01:02 pm
Amazingness Messrs. Evans and Waititi Lightyear disappointed, but you know what is never disappointing? Chris Evans + Taika Waititi. Evans voiced the “new” Buzz Lightyear in the film, and Taika one of the Space Rangers. Let’s take a moment before Elvis opens in a couple days and wipes Lightyear off the map to appreciate the By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 12:01 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt: More Mythology I love an Andrea Long Chu book review. We linked to her piece on Hanya Yanagihara’s writing back in January and she articulated everything that frustrated me about reading A Little Life and her most recent book To Paradise. And it’s not that I necessarily agree with Andrea By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Kazan is remaking Elia Kazan Let’s hear it for nepotism, y’all, Zoe Kazan is adapting East of Eden, the John Steinbeck novel her grandfather, Elia Kazan, turned into one of the greatest films of the 1950s. Seriously, though, two things can be true: Zoe Kazan is part of a significant Hollywood legacy, and By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 10:40 am
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
What Else What Else? Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced soon and her legal team is asking for leniency based on how she was treated by her father. Right. But for the girls who she sex-trafficked, alongside Jeffrey Epstein, their adolescence was ruined too. Let’s keep their experiences top of mind. (Cele|bitchy) Lori By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 04:46 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 21, 2022 Vogue covering Bella Hadid’s NFT platform feels cheap. We, as a society, have made as much fun of NFTs as possible and have moved on. The Daily Mail has pictures of Toni Garn and Alex Pettyfer’s second wedding in Greece and it got me thinking about Alex and By Maria • Jun 21, 2022 03:31 pm
Music Harry’s Fans Want Him To Leave America Harry Styles: Love On Tour has resumed, and naturally it’s resulted in plenty of fan-generated social media content. The first leg of the 2022 tour began in Europe, so there’s no doubt that there is that sense of home that Harry isn’t able to find anywhere else. By Anastasia • Jun 21, 2022 02:47 pm
Break Ups MBJ & Lori: Arms out, Abs out We’ve been living in a post Michael B Jordan + Lori Harvey world for a couple of weeks now. PEOPLE confirmed their breakup and it sounded at the time like he was ready to go to the next level but that’s not where she was at in her life By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 01:07 pm
BFFs Mimi is a Bro Sarah posted last Friday about the new trailer for Billy Eichner’s upcoming rom-com Bros and as she said, “please just give me this movie right now”. This trailer and the one before it too have been great – and I don’t even mind if it ends up being that By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 12:08 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton boys out and about It’s a Bridgerton reunion at Milan fashion week, as the duke and the viscount themselves, Regé-Jean Page and Jonathan Bailey, ended up at the Giorgio Armani show. This is very summer, very yacht-casual, very “attorneys on vacation”. Bailey is a little bit of a scroll down surprise, as I By Sarah • Jun 21, 2022 11:31 am
Music The Beyoncé Solstice Today is the first day of summer 2022. Because Beyoncé told us. Summer officially started last night when she released the first track, “Break My Soul”, off her upcoming seventh album, Renaissance. Last week we found out Beyoncé is going back to the long roll-out instead of the surprise drop, By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 10:43 am
