Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Mariah’s Meaning and The Bloody Truth At long last (and after many emails from you guys keeping us on it) we waited for December, and unofficially rang in the holiday season and finally had our book club about The Meaning Of Mariah Carey. Problem is, there may not be a whole lot of meaning… not that By Duana • Dec 10, 2020 01:19 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Evermore No matter how you feel about her, no one can deny that Taylor Swift is one of the music industry’s biggest players. Commercially she’s a big deal – all of her albums have reached million-plus milestones that few, if any, artists ever achieve. She’s also established herself as By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 01:01 pm
Amazingness Nicolas Cage swears Yesterday a trailer dropped so unexpected and random that the comedy continuum skipped a beat. The History of Swear Words is a new comedy series coming to Netflix on January 5, which features Nicolas Cage as the host, walking us through the history of half a dozen swears including “sh-t” By Sarah • Dec 10, 2020 12:04 pm
Books Clooney + Affleck v 2.0 George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on Argo – they co-produced, along with Grant Heslov, George’s producing partner, and Ben starred and directed, and the film went on to win Best Picture. That was almost ten years ago. And now they’re teaming up again. Deadline reported yesterday that By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 11:35 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp: Bots and “Former Romantic Partners” Maria linked to The Hollywood Reporter’s new Johnny Depp cover story yesterday in Celebrity Social Media. It’s a deep-dive piece and at the time of that post, many people hadn’t had a chance to read it and fully absorb all the bombshells. And there are, indeed, some By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sarah texted me about Promising Young Woman on Saturday night with her reaction. She didn’t know at the time but I was just about to text her with mine. Turns out we were screening it at the same time which meant we were processing all the excellence By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 08:54 am
What Else What Else? OK so I want to go to a concert too, desperately. I’ve never been to an in-person BTS concert and I don’t know how long we’ll have to wait before that happens but the point is, I get the desire to listen to live music, be among By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 04:08 pm
Best Of 2020 My Favorite Things of 2020: Podcasts Usually at this time of year, I’m working on my top 10 films for the year, but this year we’ve decided to follow the time-shifted schedule of awards season, which means my top 10 won’t be out until February, congruent with the eligibility cut-off for the 2020 By Sarah • Dec 09, 2020 03:00 pm
Music Shawn & Camila’s Christmas Gift “Señorita”, but make it Christmas? Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello have followed up their steamy 2019 smash hit duet with a new take on the holiday classic, “The Christmas Song.” If you’re a fan of that song, you’ll like this version. Camila delivers some of her best vocals, By Cody • Dec 09, 2020 02:20 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 9, 2020 I once read a story (Tweet? Caption? Post? I don’t remember exactly) that called Kermit the Frog the original hipster and I think about it often. This reminded me of that. Nobody cheats like SKINNY MEN. Them BROOM STICKS want to sweep every YARD. — AP (@itsjj_ldn) December 7, By Maria • Dec 09, 2020 01:36 pm
Style Cher’s First Voiceover? I just saw these new shots of Cher in London heading to the BBC and what I first wanted to write about is this outfit because her half black, half white coat is amazing. And then she matched it with a half black, half white beret and now I don’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 12:47 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s Royal Tour Money Shot The final stop on Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour yesterday was Windsor Castle. All week we’ve seen them travelling around the UK to thank people for their service during the pandemic – and, also, to generate some good headlines about the family after almost a month By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, and Alfred Molina return to Spider-Man Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is filming now, and the multiverse cast for the movie continues to grow. Joining Jamie Foxx in reprising a villain role is Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus waaaaay back in 2004 in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (aka still the best live-action Spider-Man movie, and By Sarah • Dec 09, 2020 11:06 am
Top Reads Red Table Talk: Olivia Jade and the College Admissions Scandal It’s been almost 2 years since Operation Varsity Blues. Felicity Huffman has served her abbreviated eleven days in prison and subsequent community service. She’s even booked her comeback role: a half-hour comedy for ABC. I’m sure she’ll address the scandal in a sit-down interview before that By Cody • Dec 09, 2020 10:18 am
Business of Hollywood The Soderbergh Oscars Yesterday, the producers of the 93rd Academy Awards were announced: Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh, who, yes, dressed like a member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for his press release photo. Welcome to the team, @JesseCollinsEnt, @StaceySher and Steven Soderbergh! Meet the 93rd #Oscars producers. By Sarah • Dec 09, 2020 09:39 am
Shout-Outs December 9, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Judy Chiao is a teacher at Burnaby North Secondary. She and her students with diverse abilities have published a book! The book is called 1, 2, 3 Count With Me: A Bug Can Count If You Believe! All the students participated – colouring, rhyming, drawing. This is a wonderful achievement and By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 09:07 am
