Equality Issues In The Heights: The Conversation Continues As Cody just wrote, In The Heights has been criticized (and rightfully so) for its casting of light-skinned actors to portray the leads in a show about Washington Heights. He mentioned Felice León’s interview with Jon M. Chu and the cast for The Root and it’s worth nothing By Violeta • Jun 17, 2021 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights Colourism and Rita Moreno’s Foot-in-Mouth Defence (Lainey: please note, this is the first of two back-to-back posts about In The Heights and the colourism conversation that’s been happening about representation in the film. Cody will start and Violeta’s perspective will follow.) The highly anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, In The By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 01:20 pm
Relationship Assumption Daily Bennifer: Ben fits right in As we saw, Ben Affleck joined Jennifer Lopez’s family to celebrate her sister Lynda’s 50th birthday a few days ago and they were photographed kissing and hanging out with her kids. More images from that day have now been released (see them here) – this time of the entire By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Goes to Pussy Island with Channing Tatum The Cannes Film Festival is happening soon, so there’s been a lot of deal-making that’s either happening or about to happen, and many projects positioning themselves to land deals during the festival. One of those projects is called Pussy Island – at least that’s what it’s called By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 11:23 am
Music H.E.R. Wants Her EGOT The name H.E.R. keeps popping up, right? At the Super Bowl, Grammys, Oscars, with her long black tousled curls and signature shades. I feel like she is steadily carving out a space for herself in the mainstream consciousness. Sort of like Janelle Monáe did a few years ago By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 10:48 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS dropped an album yesterday. BTS: The Best, a Japanese compilation album, has already broken chart records in Japan to go along with “Butter” staying at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, which represents their longest #1 streak so far. By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 10:04 am
What Else What Else? There have been rumours for months about Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner getting back together and they saved their official confirmation of it for the red carpet, naturally. The star here though is Stormi, who is SO cute in that dress and those sneakers. Also that’s a pretty amazing By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 04:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 16, 2021 Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have launched a podcast, “What’s One More”, which is a nod to their large family. I believe they are at seven together, and Alec is at eight with Ireland. Will they go for double digits? Hilaria has been back on Instagram for a while and By Maria • Jun 16, 2021 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew and Alexandra flirt for Boom The first trailer for tick, tick…Boom! came out last week – read Duana’s post about it here – and despite the fact that the film is scheduled for release later this year (how is half the year over already?!), it looks like Lin-Manuel Miranda (who is directing) and the cast By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 01:14 pm
TV Updates Jon Bernthal: Romantic lead at last, sort of Jon Bernthal has a very intense and intimidating screen presence. He broke out as loose-cannon Shane on The Walking Dead, is best known for playing the Punisher in the Netflix-Marvel shows—and maybe again in the MCU proper, there is a persistent rumor they’d like to keep Bernthal around— By Sarah • Jun 16, 2021 12:25 pm
Music Ariana on The Late Late Show Yesterday marked the end of most lockdown restrictions in California and New York, so James Corden teamed up with Ariana Grande to celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TarriXFME For all you musical theatre fans out there, the song “No Lockdowns Anymore” was set to the tune of “Good By Anastasia • Jun 16, 2021 11:23 am
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the London Police Channel 4 News in the UK yesterday aired a report on Jeffrey Epstein and his accused sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the whole point of the piece was to question why investigations in their alleged criminal operation are ongoing in America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but there’s been By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 11:03 am
Keanu Reeves Intro for June 16, 2021 Dear Gossips, Entertainment Weekly published an exclusive oral history of The Devil Wears Prada this week ahead of the 15th anniversary of the release of the film on June 22. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Gisele Bundchen, and more all participate in the feature. It’ By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 09:16 am
What Else What Else? There was a rumour that Katie Holmes and ARod were happening? He wishes, LOL. As for her pants, I love them, and I just got a similar pair, and they are freedom. Nothing touches your body and since everything is a crop top right now, they’re perfect for the By Lainey • Jun 15, 2021 04:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 15, 2021 Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen gave a rare interview to i-D magazine for the oral history commemorating 15 years of The Row. As we’ve come to expect from them, the responses are serious and guarded – they give nothing personal away, ever. Some celebrity names (like Jonah Hill, Gigi Hadid, Carolyn By Maria • Jun 15, 2021 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel finds Park Seo Jun Over the last couple of years, I’ve been posting more and more about Hollywood and the western media’s expansion into South Korea. Netflix, in particular, has a robust Korean content library, with new drama series debuting almost weekly on their platform, as they continue to invest in co-productions By Lainey • Jun 15, 2021 01:46 pm
