Movie Reviews and Previews How Tall is Julia Roberts in Ocean’s 11? Oceans 11 came out 20 years ago this week. Read my post from yesterday on the film and its influence here. And now, it is I, Real Science Person Doing Real Science, back to answer a singular question plaguing our land for far too long: How tall IS Julia Roberts By Sarah • Dec 08, 2021 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton This is Brad Pitt leaving Judd Apatow’s birthday party last night in LA. Brad and Judd have known each other for a long time – years ago, like 20 years ago, before Brad was in Se7en, along with Ben Stiller, they wanted to make a Rolling Stone movie together. So, By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 03:20 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: “Can’t We Do Something Else?” In today’s open, I mentioned Jennifer Aniston last night on Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and playing Blair in The Facts of Life episode, how great it was to see her as part of that ensemble, and what Duana said about how much f-cking fun she’s By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 02:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning West Side Story and Rachel Zegler, a contender? There’s been a LOT of hype about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. It’s currently sitting at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far. The film opens this Friday and if it can do a solid box office, it’s almost guaranteed, not just for a Best Picture By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 12:22 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Nostalgia As I mentioned in today’s site open, Live in Front of a Studio Audience last night was, top to bottom, an immersive nostalgic experience, not just with the re-enactments of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes, but also in between programming, during the commercial breaks. Yes. I By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 11:13 am
Relationship Assumption Courtside Bennifer Happy Holidays from Bennifer who’ve been our Gossip Santa all year, giving us the gift of their rediscovered romance and replaying their greatest hits, with a current twist. We just got another one last night. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were at the Lakers game last night. The Celtics By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 10:05 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? What’s with all this Kenny G content lately? I’m not mad at it, I’m just surprised. Like last week in this space I linked to a post about playing golf with Kenny G which I really want to do now. And this week we’re talking about By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 7, 2021 Seems kind of silly to talk about something other Succession or Jeremy Strong’s profile in the New Yorker but I will branch out just a teeny bit to Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones, who was not in Sunday’s episode). Here she is with her siblings Mark and Samantha Ronson By Maria • Dec 07, 2021 03:08 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Ocean’s 11 at 20 Heist movies never go out of style because people LOVE heists. And in 2001, Ocean’s 11 combined everyone’s natural interest in heists with superstar glamor in a moment shadowed by tragedy—Ocean’s 11 premiered three months after September 11th—but not yet touched by post-recession distaste for By Sarah • Dec 07, 2021 02:03 pm
Music Ariana, Meg, and... Jimmy? ‘Tis the season for Christmas songs, and today’s edition of holiday music features a trio I don’t think any of us saw coming. Here’s “It Was A… (Masked Christmas)” with Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, and Jimmy Fallon. The song and music video were released earlier this By Anastasia • Dec 07, 2021 01:03 pm
Music Billie: New Music Video, New Hair Billie’s newest music video dropped yesterday, and this time around, her self-directed video was for the last track on Happier Than Ever called “Male Fantasy”. This video is one of her more simplistic ones and it feels grown up. The song is about heartbreak (and being frustrated that you By Anastasia • Dec 07, 2021 12:22 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Top Reads Drake Devalues the Grammys Drake was nominated for two Grammys this year: Best Rap Album for Certified Lover Boy and Best Rap Performance for “Way 2 Sexy” ft Future and Young Thug. To be nominated for a Grammy artists and/or their record labels must submit for consideration. So when you get a nomination, By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 10:27 am
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics Choice Awards television nominations were announced yesterday. In the comedy category, it was really great to see that Reservation Dogs will be competing for Best Comedy Series alongside Ted Lasso, Only Murders in the Building, Insecure, Hacks, The Other Two, and What We Do In The By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:01 am
