Movie Reviews and Previews Oscars 2021: Return of the Snubs I generally don’t like using the word “snub” to describe awards nominations because frequently it is not a case of willful exclusion but there being too many worthy films to include when there are a limited number of nominations to hand out. But THIS year? When MANK is the By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Oscars got Manked The Oscar nominations for the weirdest year in cinema are here, and they are a Mank of Chicago 7s. There are some big inclusions worth noting—and we will—but the most nominated film of 2020 is MANK, which is so on-the-nose for 2020 it feels satirical. Mank bagged ten By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:00 pm
Equality Issues Grammys: DaBaby & Boomers Perform I think the Grammy’s best performance of the night came as a surprise early in the evening, thanks to DaBaby. “Rockstar” ft Roddy Ricch spent seven weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 last year and went into this year’s Grammys with three nominations. The song’ By Cody • Mar 15, 2021 12:37 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé Blessed the Building….and Left Like I said in the open today, I thought the Grammys were well-produced and I appreciate that they put in the effort to make good TV. But like I also said in the open, that was a long ass show. And while I can happily binge eight hours of a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 11:49 am
Break Ups JLo and ARod: We Were on a Break In a classic Friday news dump that made me legit scream, Page Six broke the news of Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s breakup. On Friday night, I wrote the first version of this piece, which I subsequently had to scrap and rework several times over the weekend. Let’s By Maria • Mar 15, 2021 10:48 am
Grammy Awards 2021 Megan Thee Stallion’s First Grammys Megan Thee Stallion dominated the Grammys her first time out, performing two #1 hit songs, winning Best New Artist, and collecting two more awards for “Savage Remix”. Her first trophy came pre-telecast for Best Rap Performance, making her and her collaborator Beyoncé the first female artists to ever win in By Cody • Mar 15, 2021 10:09 am
Grammy Awards 2021 Intro for March 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, The people who produced the Grammys, as in the broadcast, are not the Recording Academy. They have to work with the Recording Academy, obviously, but they’re not responsible for how the Recording Academy manages the Grammys, like the actual awards. So you can have a conversation about By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 09:22 am
What Else What Else? Does it feel like it’s been ten years since Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys as an egg? I remember, of course I do, and I’ll likely remember it forever, but I don’t feel like it was a decade ago. Just me? Katy Perry’s look, on By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 03:43 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 12, 2021 Lainey and I have been emailing and texting about the Armie Hammer piece in Vanity Fair. Have you read it? It’s a deep dive and very Vanity Fair in that there’s a Fabergé egg, art fraud, lawsuits by the dozen, and a sex chair of ill repute. It By Maria • Mar 12, 2021 02:35 pm
Lady Gaga Lady Gaga: Outfits of the Week If you’ve been online this week, and if you’re here, you have, you cannot have missed all of Lady Gaga’s looks in Italy while shooting House of Gucci. Every day there’s been a new look, and I’ve either posted the previous ones or linked to By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 01:10 pm
Sasha Finds Sasha Finds: “The Essential” At the start of this pandemic, I went hard on loungewear. Then for some reason I kind of just stopped writing about it and to be honest, I’m not sure why because it’s not like my outfit choices have changed. I continue to exclusively wear elastic waist everythinggggg By Sasha • Mar 12, 2021 12:41 pm
Matt Damon Matt Damon on the Bridge Matt Damon and his family have been in Australia because he’s shooting Thor: Love and Thunder. For him to have brought the whole crew over to stay for weeks, if not months, it would have to be more than just a cameo right? Which was the case in Thor: By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 12:09 pm
Music Silk Sonic at the Grammys What’s the song you’ve been listening to the most lately? The one you hit on repeat? For many of us, since last Friday, it’s Silk’s Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open”, right? Silk Sonic is Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, a track that’s been steadily By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the 2021 Oscar nominations Somehow, amazingly, in my whole history at LaineyGossip, I’ve never done a full Oscars prognostication. Well, no more! In this, the weirdest of all years, here’s my extremely scientific prediction of the Oscars nominations, which are set to be announced Monday morning. I shall attempt to guess the By Sarah • Mar 12, 2021 09:51 am
Abel Tesfaye Intro for March 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Grammys are happening on Sunday and I’m excited about the show itself, about how they’re going to pull it off, or not. In all the promotion leading up to the event, show producers have gone out of their way to make it clear they’ve By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 09:13 am
What Else What Else? Oh well here’s a throwback – the premiere of Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in a movie that wasn’t Pretty Woman. She arrived with Benjamin Bratt. Remember Julia and Benjamin?! A FINE looking couple, they were together for four years. They were together when she won By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 04:46 pm
