Top Reads Power producer Scott Rudin is a toxic boss And “toxic” is putting it lightly. A new expose in The Hollywood Reporter goes HAM on Scott Rudin, the EGOT-winning power producer behind such films as Clueless, The Social Network, Doubt, Fences, the Addams Family duology, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and he’s a frequent producer for By Sarah • Apr 08, 2021 03:30 pm
Royals The Firm of Cambridge Morgan Some interesting headlines this week related to the British royal family. Let’s start with the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. In the before times, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the two heads of the QCT. When it was confirmed recently that they would not be resuming their roles as By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 02:44 pm
Celebrity Social Media, April 8, 2021 Karlie Kloss is not returning to Project Runway in a full-time host role but it has nothing to do with that “Kushner” comment that went viral. It’s because she had a baby and prefers a guest role (she’s a producer on the show), as well as juggling her By Maria • Apr 08, 2021 02:12 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What’s Your Drama: Taking an Instagram Lover & Ball Dropping Friends Welcome back to What’s Your Drama. I'm sorry we were a little light last month on podcasts but life happened. Hopefully today's longer podcast makes up for it. Up first we hear from "Lisa". Lisa is half Asian living in a predominantly white By Sasha • Apr 08, 2021 12:29 pm
Music Anticipating the Kanye documentary While we really haven’t heard much from him directly in a while, Kanye West seems to be having a great year, at least professionally. He was recently named the wealthiest Black man in American history with an alleged net worth of $6.6 billion and now it’s been By Melayna • Apr 08, 2021 12:03 pm
Relationship Assumption Does Emilia Clarke have a boyfriend? Do you know what happened ten years ago next Saturday? The very first episode of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO. I remember reading a feature story on the series in Entertainment Weekly, having known nothing about the books, and deciding to watch based on that but also wondering if By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga: Gucci Bride Lady Gaga continues to serve all the looks while shooting House of Gucci in Rome. This time it’s wedding style. We have two outfits here. Might as well start with the wedding dress. Definitely not a wedding dress I’d expect on the real Lady Gaga but, certainly, suited By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 10:52 am
Break Ups Timmy & Lily-Rose Back Together? Timothée Chalamet was photographed out in New York the other day. On the same day, Lily-Rose Depp was also papped in NYC, although they weren’t near each other, and the sightings weren’t connected. But fans on Twitter started speculating that since they’re in the same city around By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 10:12 am
Music Intro for April 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the first of six re-recorded albums, is dropping tomorrow – or tonight, if you’re counting from midnight. For the last several days she’s been building excitement for the release, dropping a digital puzzle for her fans to decode the “from By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 09:23 am
What Else What Else? Here’s an example of when a word doesn’t match up to an action. When you think of the verb “snatch”, it’s a quick motion right? Swift. Efficient. Surprising. This Sri Lankan beauty pageant scandal is being described as a “crown snatching” but… there’s nothing snatchy about By Lainey • Apr 07, 2021 04:02 pm
Equality Issues The Tonight Show TikTok Dance Controversy In my piece on Addison Rae last week, I wrote about how disappointing it was to see her perform TikTok dances without any recognition of the original dance creators, many of those creators being Black. This perpetuates the problematic patterns of BIPOC creatives not getting the credit they deserve. Thanks By Anastasia • Apr 07, 2021 03:30 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 7, 2021 When I hear Giorgio Baldi, I think of Rihanna. Do you think other celebrities go there hoping to spot her? This would be a solid plan. Yesterday Lainey wrote about Jennifer Lopez for InStyle and her friendship with Charlize Theron. Someone else stuck out for me: Judy Greer, who is By Maria • Apr 07, 2021 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cruella is delicious eye candy A second trailer for Cruella has arrived, now that we know this movie is coming out, for sure, on May 28 (in theaters and on Disney+ for a surcharge). I am rooting for this movie, I hope it’s good, because the aesthetic is ENTIRELY my sh-t and I’m By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Action Angelina into the Fire Oh, right. It’s summer movie season soon. Which is why there are so many trailers. I just haven’t been in that mindset because I’ve spent over a year in lockdown so the usual markers of time aren’t a thing for me anymore. But here we are, By Lainey • Apr 07, 2021 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Nic Cage phase Andrew Garfield’s last movie was 2018’s Under the Silver Lake, a deliberately confounding film that some people love and some people hate. His new movie is Mainstream, a film that appears, on the surface, aimed at the YouTube generation of creators and performers and in it, Garfield is By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 12:14 pm
TV Updates Prince Harry: On Camera for Netflix It was announced yesterday as part of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new deal with Netflix that the first series to be released out of Archewell Productions will be Heart of Invictus, co-produced with Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara who won an Oscar for The White Helmets in By Lainey • Apr 07, 2021 11:33 am
