Dumbass #RoseTicoDeservedBetter The last week of the year is a liminal space. It is the abandoned shopping mall of time: It once was, it is not yet. Nothing happens in the last week of the year, when post-holiday blues and pre-New Year’s Eve nerves set in. And everything happens in the By Sarah • Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
Maple Leaf Are Harry and Meghan moving to Canada? As we now know, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent the holidays in Canada. It’s actually been confirmed that they were in Canada the whole time, not just Christmas and New Year’s but before that, from when they started their break at the end of 2019, despite the By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 11:22 am
BFFs Brad, Brad, and Jen Brad Pitt pretty much locked in his Oscar on Sunday, didn’t he? As mentioned, Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood is not my favourite film, but he is, for me, the best part of it. And it’s time. Every year we talk about who’s “due” in Hollywood By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 10:18 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Leading up to Christmas, the predominant headline about Little Women was that they were having a hard time getting men to come to the screenings which may have been why the film was largely ignored by the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. So the box office By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 09:37 am
What Else What Else? The Harvey Weinstein trial has started – and already there’s drama because more accusers are coming forward and the judge dragged his ass today for being on his cellphone in court. What could possibly be more important on Harvey’s phone than what was going on in court, given that By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 05:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit and Rose at the Golden Globes We didn’t have time to get to Kit Harington and Rose Leslie during our Monday Golden Globes coverage yesterday but it was nice to see them back on the red carpet together, and so happy. Not just happy but… I don’t know if this is exactly the right By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 04:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Dolittle Cats 2.0? Robert Downey Jr.’s inexplicable passion project, Dolittle, comes out in two weeks. A new trailer arrived on New Year’s day to celebrate(?) this fact, and this time, it actually shows us RDJ as the man who talks to animals. The first trailer barely showed RDJ, but someone must By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to A Quiet Place A Quiet Place was one of the biggest hits of 2018, so it was not a surprise when John Krasinski decided to make a sequel. It was a little disheartening, because A Quiet Place is such a perfect, self-contained story, but in the blockbuster era of Hollywood, nothing is allowed By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 03:25 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 7, 2020 Happy New Year! I’m back on my bullsh-t, as promised. Let’s get right into it: Ricky Gervais is all over Twitter, keeping up with the “I don’t care!” schtick he had going at the Golden Globes. Because nothing says “I don’t care” like reading all your By Maria • Jan 07, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men’s death rattle Over two years ago, we saw a trailer for The New Mutants, a would-be spin-off in the X-Men universe, about a group of “troubled” teen mutants trapped in a creepy institution. That trailer looked ridiculous and was not a confidence builder, but then The New Mutants derailed entirely when Disney By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 01:36 pm
Maple Leaf House Sussex loves Canada Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent the holiday on Canada's west coast, seen on Vancouver Island and also Vancouver around Christmas and New Year’s. They are now back at home in London and yesterday announced that their first official engagement of 2020 would be a visit to By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 12:50 pm
Break Ups Colin and Livia keep their commitment Colin and Livia Firth announced their divorce just before the holidays. A few years ago, it was revealed that Livia was allegedly being blackmailed by an ex-lover, a journalist she’d had an affair with who was bitter about her ending the relationship which he denies, insisting that she was By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rian Johnson’s Revenge Amidst all the caterwauling about Star Wars’ box office—which is fine by any and every measure—the real success story of the holiday season is Knives Out. It opened back in November, during the US Thanksgiving holiday, and it has trucked along steadily ever since, raking in over $247 By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 09:59 am
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Into the Gwynethverse Gwyneth Paltrow showed up at the Golden Globes on Sunday, in support of The Politician which garnered two nominations. (Has anyone watched the entire series? I couldn’t make it.) She wore a very purposeful gown, one she knew would get her on best and worst dressed lists, which is By Maria • Jan 07, 2020 09:04 am
Books Intro for January 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, My friend and colleague, Cynthia Loyst, is one of the most sensitive, empathetic, and seductive people I know. She has a big heart and feels deeply. Her first instinct is to relate her feelings to others, so as to better understand them. And, on top of all that, By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 08:38 am
What Else What Else? Thanks for checking in with us all day – and if you’re interested in what our work life has been this weekend, Duana and I have posting behind-the-scenes on Instastories. We’re not totally done until tomorrow. But we’ll be back on a regular schedule tomorrow until Oscar weekend. By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 03:59 pm
