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) 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 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 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, 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 By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, I recently interviewed Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele for ETALK presents: IMPACT & INFLUENCE – Celebrating Indigenous Changemakers, a 30-minute special airing and streaming tonight at 7pm on CTV and CTV.ca. Shanese is a public speaker, an advocate and an activist, a writer, a culture critic. She facilitates workshops By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 09:39 am
What Else What Else? It’s Emmy season and the Kardashians are campaigning, they’re pushing for a nomination for the new Hulu show. I really like Khloe’s outfit at this FYC event. It’s my favourite outfit that she’s ever worn, I think. (Go Fug Yourself) There’s a fancy McDonald’ By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 04:15 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 20, 2022 Let’s pay attention to Kate Hudson’s feet here because she’s wearing socks with sandals, which used to be a “dad” faux pas but I’ve noticed is now kind of hip? It’s confusing but I like it. I don’t know if this is entirely accurate By Maria • Jun 20, 2022 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lightyear had a bad weekend Lightyear, Pixar’s unnecessarily confusing prequel/spin-off of Toy Story, opened over the weekend, and if you haven’t heard, it kind of flopped. I say “kind of” because if they had simply spent less money on it, its $51 million opening weekend wouldn’t seem quite so dire, By Sarah • Jun 20, 2022 01:58 pm
Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan: Weekend Polo and the Buried Inquiry Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen at the polo club in Santa Barbara again on Friday. It’s been a pretty regular occurrence this spring, the most consistently visible the Sussexes have been in a while, though I’m not sure if that will continue since Harry’s team By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 11:52 am
