Keanu Reeves Intro for June 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, I mentioned yesterday in What Else? that a Zoom call with Jeremy Piven is available to you for the bargain price of $15K and it appears that he pockets that money. Or if you have all that cash kicking around… You could have a Zoom date with Keanu By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Well, not everyone is BTS. As we know, COVID-19 has really f-cked up the economy, especially the celebrity economy. While BTS is out here innovating, others who are lower on the celebrity hierarchy pole need to get creative. Jeremy Piven, whose career wasn’t exactly on fire before the pandemic, By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 04:12 pm
Equality Issues What Can We Take Away from the Historic Supreme Court Decision? Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) made a landmark decision in support of LGBTQ community. In a 6 – 3 decision, judges voted to protect LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace, deciding that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applied to LGBTQ+ individuals. Basically, it means that By Prem • Jun 16, 2020 03:57 pm
Music BTS’s Lockdown Innovation COVID-19 has disrupted every industry and where the entertainment industry is concerned, even though musicians are in a better position to release new content than those in television and film, it’s the live experience that artists are still trying to figure out and how to make technology work in By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 16, 2020 If you watched Canadian TV in the late 80s and 90s, you know Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod from BodyBreak (Keep fit and have fun!). Hal is now telling the story behind BodyBreak and how he got into TV, including having a sports reporter job rescinded because they had another By Maria • Jun 16, 2020 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is an old-man movie the same way The Irishman is Martin Scorsese’s old-man movie, in that this is only a movie Lee could make now, after thirty years of filmmaking, when he has gained the perspective to look back and see cycles repeating By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 11:58 am
Royals Prince Andrew wants an “olive branch” It’s now been over six months since Prince Andrew stepped down from public duty. Word is they’ve permanently retired him now because he’s such an embarrassment to the British royal family. If you need a reminder, the reason for this is friendship with the dead rapist pedophile By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Ana’s family getaway Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas were photographed the other day with his kids boarding a private jet, heading away for a few days. They’ve since returned to LA and as you can see from these photos, his mother was with them, along with a couple of dogs. The By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 10:08 am
Award Season Campaigning The Oscars blinked, too Following Warner Brothers’ decision to move Tenet back a couple weeks, the Academy has also decided to move, pushing the 2021 Oscar telecast back by two months, from February 28, 2021 to April 25, 2021. Eligibility for consideration has also been extended, with the exhibition window running until February 28, By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 09:11 am
Music Intro for June 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, The other day in What Else? I linked to a story about the band Lady Antebellum and their name change to Lady A. At the time, I said it was a good explanation, considering that the country music audience is so white and they would be alienating their By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 08:35 am
What Else What Else? Today is Chris Evans’s birthday and the FUG Girls are celebrating it with a photo retrospective. First takeaway: holy sh-t, he and Jessica Biel showed up on a lot of red carpets together. Second takeaway: men’s pants in the 2000s were really, really bad. (Go Fug Yourself) This By Lainey • Jun 15, 2020 03:53 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 15, 2020 There are new photos of Ashley Benson and G-Eazy and to be honest, I forgot they are together (or she’s rebounding with him, as a source put it in May). It’s perfect timing for a summer fling and considering that most things are paused (like touring and filming) By Maria • Jun 15, 2020 02:44 pm
Joss Whedon Whitewashed Casting Apologies – and an innovator I’m cranky and I’m officially over retroactive creative decisions – the ‘clarifications’ people make, years or decades after the fact, about what creatives wanted to do in the name of inclusiveness or diversity, but couldn’t, because of The Pressures. Specifically, I’m referring to the headlines running around By Duana • Jun 15, 2020 02:09 pm
Dave Chappelle Dave Chapelle’s 8:46 On Friday Dave Chappelle dropped a surprise stand-up set for free on Netflix’s YouTube page. Titled 8:46 the special is really not comedy, it’s just Chappelle working through the recent events in America. It was probably meant to be comedy, as Chappelle has started workshopping new material By Sarah • Jun 15, 2020 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet blinked Since the coronavirus lockdown began in the spring, the hopes of the film industry “returning to normal” hung on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, due to be released on July 17. Warner Brothers and the industry at large so believed in Tenet’s power to lure audiences back to enclosed spaces By Sarah • Jun 15, 2020 11:22 am
Equality Issues What Happened to Sasha Exeter On Friday, Kathleen wrote a piece at Refinery29 about what Sasha Exeter shared on Instagram last Wednesday and how certain media outlets have covered the story. Many of them, from Vanity Fair to The Telegraph to the Canadian Press, have been characterising Jessica Mulroney leaning into her white privilege against By Lainey • Jun 15, 2020 10:43 am
