Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman is Scorsese’s least glamourous gangster film Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 09:17 am
Shout-Outs December 6, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs “Ashley Lynn! Steve and Will.I.Am and Xander and Salty-Dog are so excited to spend their first Christmas in Barbados with you since we all moved from Indonesia! Merry Christmas!” By Lainey • Dec 06, 2019 08:46 am
Style Intro for December 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, As mentioned a couple of days ago when I posted about Tracee Ellis Ross in this space, there have been a lot of great looks in contention for the Outfit of the Week. And even though they’re not the outfit of the week, they should still be By Lainey • Dec 06, 2019 08:32 am
What Else What Else? This is SO sad. And it speaks to the power that someone can have over you, how abusive it can be, how hard it is to escape from it, and how emotional abuse is just as devastating as physical abuse. R Kelly has been in prison for months. But even By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Parasite break the Korean Oscar curse? Parasite is one of the best films of the year, and it’s already landing on year-end lists, including earning a special award from the American Film Institute. This has, naturally, led to a discussion about its Oscar prospects, which is an interesting conversation for two reasons. One is that By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 04:14 pm
TV Updates RuPaul in AJ and the Queen A new trailer for AJ and the Queen, a new Netflix series starring RuPaul was released last night. The premise of the show, according to its Netflix description: “While traveling across the country in a run-down RV, drag queen Ruby Red discovers an unlikely sidekick in AJ: a tough-talking 10-year-old By Prem • Dec 05, 2019 03:50 pm
TV Updates Woody Harrleson and Justin Theroux revisit Watergate Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux both starred in beloved HBO dramas, True Detective season one for Harrelson, and The Leftovers for Theroux. Now, they are both returning to HBO, to star together in a limited series called The White House Plumbers, about the two men who planned the Watergate break-in, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 03:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 5, 2019 As we near the end of a decade, people are compiling the “best of” lists and moments. One that came up in my feed was “best Twitter moment” and someone suggested Zola. “Wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch fell out??????” It went viral – and now it’ By Maria • Dec 05, 2019 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan is for me Mulan is the #2 trending topic worldwide right now on Twitter, at least that’s what it says on my feed, right underneath #TrumpIsALaughingStock. Mulan is trending because a new trailer was released… and I love it, I love it so much. I love it so much I cried at By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Florence Pugh party, Vogue Vogue would like you to know that Florence Pugh is cool, but not like TOO COOL, she’s just the right amount of cool. She’s an It Girl, but she’s not an It Girl because she doesn’t trip or do cheesy late night talk show bits. Vogue By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 12:56 pm
BFFs Emma Stone is getting married I just want to go back a bit… Back to 2018, summertime. A few months prior, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux had announced their divorce. He reportedly was too cool for her LA life and wanted to stay punk as f-ck (what’s up Ryan Adams?) in New York, chilling By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 11:49 am
Music Taylor Swift to open Sundance A few weeks ago, prior to her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance, when Taylor Swift accused Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun of refusing to allow her to perform music from her first six albums, we also found out that she’d been working on a Netflix documentary By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 11:14 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake’s promotional apology No but seriously, is this an apology? Or an advance promotional opportunity for his film, Palmer? Because it starts as an apology…and ends as a plug. Isn’t that what we all want out of an apology? For someone to say sorry and then pivot to them telling you By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 10:21 am
Amazingness Intro for December 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Mariah Carey is Christmas. Mariah Carey is Christmas. I wrote that twice because the first is a statement, a fact. And the second is the title of a new …film?... based on the above fact about the making of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 09:31 am
What Else What Else? Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom were supposedly going to get married this month, according to Us Weekly. Now Us Weekly is saying that that’s not happening but not because there are problems in their relationship but because of something to do with a venue. Not sure I buy this By Lainey • Dec 04, 2019 05:35 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: America’s Got Gabrielle If Lainey were writing this, she’d undoubtedly point out that some stories are gifts that keep giving or that gain momentum when you least expect it. It’s been a full week since the story broke that Gabrielle Union spoke up about various issues at America’s Got Talent By Duana • Dec 04, 2019 03:25 pm