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
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 26, 2022 Lainey’s intro this morning has a few story updates and the one that excited me most was Ingrid Casares versus Sandra Bernhard on Madonna being a long-term friend. Adult friendships are very “a reason, a season, a lifetime” because sometimes you have work friends you are super tight with By Maria • May 26, 2022 04:31 pm
Cannes 2022 IU’s First Cannes Lee Ji-eun, better known as IU, made her very first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival today as one of the stars of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker which is screening in competition. This is a big deal, for a few reasons. First, Kore-eda’s last film, Shoplifters, won the Palme By Lainey • May 26, 2022 04:13 pm
Sandra Oh Another Simu First Over the last few years, Simu Liu has been checking off a lot of firsts. I don’t need to list them here – by this point is should be well-known all the trails he’s been blazing in a short amount of time. And now he’s adding to that By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:54 pm
Cannes 2022 Cannes loves Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis screened at Cannes last night and before we get into how it was received and all the reaction, let’s talk about Baz’s outfit because he really served up some TCB energy. TCB, for the Elvis uninitiated, stands for “Taking Care of Business”, which was By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:13 pm
Beyoncé Blue Ivy at the concert The Blue Ivy Carter is a celebrity in her own right. She is a Grammy winner. She made history last year as the youngest artist ever to win an MTV VMA. And of course she is celebrity royalty – her mother is Beyoncé, the Queen of Culture. She is the Prince By Lainey • May 26, 2022 11:32 am
Music BTS is going to the White House Major announcement today from the White House: K-pop supergroup BTS is coming to the White House next week pic.twitter.com/muC8CJyOeQ — Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 26, 2022 RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are the most visible Asians on the planet right now. Going to the By Lainey • May 26, 2022 10:48 am
