Top Reads “If There’s An Active Role That The Firm Is Playing” “Were you silent or were you silenced?” is the question that featured prominently in the first teaser for Oprah’s two-hour Prince Harry and Meghan Markle special that CBS released on Sunday. As we’ve now seen, it was enough to panic the British royal family who have now retaliated By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 11:00 am
Royals Royals Investigating Royals For all the times that we’ve heard about the British royal family staying above the fray, and never complaining or explaining, the events of this week should shut that sh-t down forever, non? The British royals are out here doing the MOST right now, as we get closer and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 09:36 am
Shout-Outs March 4, 2021 – Smutty Shout-Outs A few weeks ago, I posted about Ashley, a mother of two, whose home was destroyed in a fire. A home can be rebuilt. But other losses are forever. Ashley’s daughters, Kiersten (6) and Brooklyn (4) died that night. It’s been almost a month. Ashley is still in By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 09:08 am
Royals Intro for March 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, “Could this whole night have been an email” is what Tina Fey jokingly asked at one point during the Golden Globes the other night. In retrospect, probably quite a few people would have preferred the email? The SAG Awards will not be an email. But by award show By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 08:58 am
What Else What Else? I am very, very into Rachel Brosnahan’s umbrella on the set of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. I love umbrellas like this. The ones that truly form a dome around you. And I’ve always loved a clear umbrella because I’m clumsy and never know where I’m going By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 04:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 3, 2021 Do you think, in a way, Lily Collins was glad the flop Golden Globes happened virtually this year? Emily In Paris has been a social media punchline but also a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the Globes, which puts the show in a weird position. How do you By Maria • Mar 03, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan Shows No Remorse Military movies are not my jam. I don’t mean war movies, although the crossover is heavy, I mean the Tom Clancy-style paramilitary movies where the enemies are vaguely Russian or brown, depending on the era, and the tone of the piece is more about unchallenged unilateral violence with no By Sarah • Mar 03, 2021 02:58 pm
Jodie Foster Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian Originally brought in for questioning in November 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was eventually renditioned to Jordan by the US government, and then ultimately imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years without ever being charged with any crime. In 2015, Slahi published a book, Guantanamo Diary, while still in jail (an By Sarah • Mar 03, 2021 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You’ve Got Mail? I’VE GOT ANSWERS A couple weeks ago, Dustin Rowles from Pajiba wrote about an alternate ending to You’ve Got Mail, citing the Mandela effect (a collective false memory). Immediately after reading it, I started polling friends because I too remembered the “Shop Around the Corner inside Fox Books” ending that Dustin referred By Maria • Mar 03, 2021 12:47 pm
Royals The Curious Case of Meghan’s Earrings If it wasn’t obvious that the new report in The Times, featuring information provided by royal aides, was part of a smear campaign against Meghan Markle, the story about the earrings, packaged in along with allegations that she bullied staff members, pretty much drives the point home. It has By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 11:53 am
Top Reads The Royals On The Attack We are now just four days away from Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive two-hour special on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, featuring their first sit-down interview together since their engagement. And, if the previews are to be believed, Oprah is going there. “Were you silent or were you SILENCED?” Not surprisingly By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Oscar nomination voting begins this Friday, March 5 and runs until March 10. Nominations will then be announced on March 15, preceding the Oscars six weeks later on April 25. In a typical year, potential nominees who win at the Golden Globes would use that momentum for their By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Do you know who the British Royal Magnificent Seven are? The word “magnificent” is a stretch here, apparently, because some people have pointed out that there doesn’t seem to be all that much excitement about the allegedly magnificent royal seven. And that’s an issue for the royal PR By Lainey • Mar 02, 2021 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 2, 2021 Yesterday I posted about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s surprise baby announcement. It’s a surprise because Lucia (the new baby) and Edu (born in December 2020) are months apart. Katie Rosman interviewed Hilaria for the New York Times back in December (during the whole “how do you say cucumber By Maria • Mar 02, 2021 02:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holiday Andra Day won the Best Drama Actress award at the Golden Globes the other night for her performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels and adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks from Johann Hari’s book, Chasing the Scream. The film depicts Billie Holiday’s years of By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We could have Michael B. Jordan as Superman On Friday, news broke that Warner Brothers is setting up a new Superman film to be produced by JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot team and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The report from Shadow & Act notes that there is no director and a search for a new Superman has By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:54 am
