Amazingness Tom Cruise: That Helicopter Life! Tom Cruise has already given us some comedy this week with his culinary extra. Now, for the second time in a matter of days, he’s providing more offscreen entertainment, because of how extra he is when he commutes. Tom, a very busy movie star, has no time to sit By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 11:34 am
Top Reads Megan Thee Stallion Fights for Her Career By Billboard Hot 100 standards, the biggest song of 2021 so far is BTS’s “Butter”. It has topped the chart for more weeks than any other track this year, is still consistently landing in the Top 10, and the band intends to extend that success even further by releasing By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, Here’s another sign that we might be in the most f-cked up timeline – the show that was supposed to be the least messy, the most organised, a show that was all about showing your work, is currently a total sh-tshow, the opposite of good work: Jeopardy! and By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 09:22 am
What Else What Else? I’ve been running more lately than I have in the last two years. I hate running but not as much as I hate cycling. I run for mental and physical fitness. And now, one more reason: so that I can escape the imminent robot invasion. (Cele|bitchy) Kanye’s By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 04:16 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 24, 2021 Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd have posted together before so this is more like a catch-up than a reunion. Two unproblematic faves, as the kids say. Back to the Future is so unique in that it hasn’t been overtaken by a toxic fandom and isn’t milked for By Maria • Aug 24, 2021 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No Time To Die …In A Month We’re getting closer and closer to the long-awaited release of Bond: No Time To Die, the 25th film in the franchise, pushed back a few times because of the pandemic. The movie opens September 30 in the UK and October 8 in North America, although the Australian release has By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 02:35 pm
Gorgessity Tony Leung: Start the Campaign Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens in ten days. This is a big movie, Marvel’s first theatrical release since the pandemic began and its first blockbuster with an East Asian lead superhero. So, of course, casting Shang-Chi and finding the actor best-suited to carry By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 12:56 pm
TV Updates John Cho has GREAT hair That’s not a secret, he’s always had great hair, but the first photos from Cowboy Bebop are really leaning into John Cho’s great hair. The photo with the headphones, especially, is all about the hair. The height, the swoop, it’s like a perfect parabola of hair. By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 11:48 am
Music Olivia’s Brutal Surprise Olivia Rodrigo dropped a surprise music video for her song “brutal” yesterday: Despite Olivia hinting that it may be around the corner, we didn’t know the corner was a random Monday. But stunts like this keep things fresh, especially since her album has been out for a few months By Anastasia • Aug 24, 2021 11:14 am
Top Reads Bennifer: Engagement Ring Shopping? I don’t think any gossip out there would actually be surprised if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez announced their engagement. Both of them love love. And this isn’t exactly a “new” relationship. So it’s not like they had to totally start from scratch. Also, as we’ve By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker vs. Doctor Strange Over the weekend, a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home leaked. Now, with CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas, underway, the trailer has been released for real. (Sidebar: Having CinemaCon right now doesn’t feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it feels like trying By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 10:11 am
Succession Intro for August 24, 2021 Dear Gossips, I wish I could run a sound effect along with this sentence – and the effect I would play you is the piano tinkling. You know it: the theme song to Succession. Because those assholes are coming back, and we finally know when. October. pic.twitter.com/1kNnfr13Wa — Succession By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 09:38 am
What Else What Else? Lizzo looks super cute in her fringed leather pants which not just anyone could pull off. I, for one, would look ridiculous in them. That said, I can’t even think about faux leather anything right now because it’s so f-cking hot where I live, like they’re issuing By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 04:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 23, 2021 The other big social media story (which could be bigger than Angie, depending on who you ask) is that Taylor Swift has joined TikTok, which she announced on Twitter and Instagram. Taylor is a planner (and an executor of those plans) so if she is ready to launch this, she By Maria • Aug 23, 2021 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper goes to yoga Bradley Cooper has been quiet the last couple of years. It’s the pandemic, of course, which is still not over, which I feel the need to repeat all the time because there are people out there acting like it is, but it’s also because it was definitely not By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 03:15 pm
Dumbass Prince Charles, Climate Change, and the Invisible Contract Prince Charles has long been a champion for the environment, calling for climate conscientiousness long before it was a major headline. So the fact that the future king of England has written an essay calling on business leaders to be more responsible with the planet and our resources is not By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 02:29 pm