Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 31, 2022 We were just talking about Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley last week and over the weekend, sources confirmed an engagement to PEOPLE, which means it’s a sanctioned announcement. If they have a wedding (rather than an elopement), it should be a pretty celeb-heavy guest list. I know Jack Antonoff By Maria • May 31, 2022 02:58 pm
TV Updates Obi-Wan: Two strengths, one weakness Spoilers Obi-Wan, the new Star Wars series that premiered its first two episodes last Friday, has two (2) inherent strengths and one (1) inherent weakness. The first strength is series star Ewan McGregor, reprising the role of young(er) Obi-Wan Kenobi that he played 20ish years ago in the prequel By Sarah • May 31, 2022 12:33 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things is officially Too Much Show The first two-thirds of Stranger Things season four—officially referred to as Stranger Things 4, Volume 1—dropped on Netflix on Friday. Did you make it through it already? I’m not going to lie, I had a jump via screeners and still struggled to finish all seven episodes over By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 31, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today marks the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and AAPI Heritage Month in the United States. BTS will be meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House this afternoon. And at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend, Song Kang-ho was named Best Actor for By Lainey • May 31, 2022 09:07 am
What Else What Else? Update from Lainey May 30, 2022: I have COVID. Site is dark today. Back tomorrow. Mask up! Justin Timberlake sold his music catalog for $100 million. I realize that’s a lot of money, but it also seems kind of thin for JT’s library? Or maybe he just hasn’ By Sarah • May 27, 2022 04:10 pm
TV Updates Jodie Foster will try to revive True Detective Hey remember True Detective? Remember how it was the best show on TV and then immediately the worst show on TV? Or, at least the most disappointing show on TV? Few series have had such a sharp freshman to sophomore season quality drop as True Detective. Quality-wise, it rebounded with By Sarah • May 27, 2022 03:22 pm
TV Updates But there’s no Val Kilmer The other big reveal from day one of Star Wars Celebration has nothing to do with Star Wars. It’s the teaser for Willow, a sequel series to the 1988 film of the same name. Back then, George Lucas hoped Willow would be as big as E.T.—it wasn’ By Sarah • May 27, 2022 02:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 27, 2022 Emmy Rossum is playing Angelyne in a limited series for Peacock and the reviews are mixed, but she’s getting a lot of press for it. The issue with these biopics (or “inspired by” series) for women like Angelyne and Pamela Anderson is that even when it’s an homage, By Maria • May 27, 2022 02:00 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Katie Holmes in Love Did we plan for a Katie Holmes post on the day that Top Gun: Maverick comes out? I promise, we didn’t. It just worked out that way. And this is a legitimately good look! Katie was at The Silver Ball: The Moth’s 25th Anniversary Gala to honour David By Lainey • May 27, 2022 01:18 pm
Douchebags Kevin Spacey’s new charges Yesterday, news broke in the UK that the Crown Prosecution Service announced four new charges of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey, involving three different men. The timeframe of the charges ranges from 2005 to 2013, for reference, Spacey was the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater from 2003-2015 By Sarah • May 27, 2022 12:32 pm
Quiveration Austin Butler: Before the Madness Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis premiered at Cannes earlier this week to a big reaction. So far, the 12-minute standing ovation that the film received is the longest of the festival this year and as I mentioned in my coverage of the premiere yesterday, there’s already talk that Austin Butler’ By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
Star Wars Andor looks very good As previously mentioned, Star Wars Celebration is going on right now, and the biggest reveal of the first day was undoubtedly the teaser for Andor, a Rogue One prequel series centered on Diego Luna’s Rebel spy character, Cassian Andor. I am super f-cking burnt out on Star Wars, but By Sarah • May 27, 2022 10:44 am
Royals Meghan Markle: Surprise trip to Uvalde Meghan Markle made a surprise trip to Uvalde, Texas yesterday to pay respects to the victims and support the community; she donated food and other necessities and spent time talking with some of the volunteers in the area. Buzzfeed has more details about her visit, with commentary from people who By Lainey • May 27, 2022 10:00 am
Star Wars Intro for May 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, Star Wars Celebration kicked off yesterday and will run through the weekend. Feels kinda weird right now, with everything going on, but then it occurred to me that if they had cancelled Celebration and moved it to some other time, there would probably just be a new tragedy By Sarah • May 27, 2022 09:26 am
What Else What Else? What is Tom Cruise’s version of a day off? Doing press for his movies. Which is totally on brand but also off brand for every other celebrity because most of them loathe doing press and now here’s Tom Cruise, one of the last great Movie Stars, talking about By Lainey • May 26, 2022 04:54 pm
