Hugh Grant Charlie, Matthew, and Hugh steals the show There is no shortage of miserable f-cks in Hollywood, especially during award season. And, generally, it’s not all that fun watching someone hate their job. Unless that person can make hating their job – and, really, hating everything – super entertaining. Hugh Grant has this special gift. I have grown By Lainey • Jan 14, 2020 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Double-nominee Black Widow Last night during the college football championship game, Marvel dropped a “special look” at Black Widow. The “special look” is mostly stuff from the teaser trailer, but we learn that part of Natasha’s challenge in her solo movie is squaring off with a “new generation” of Black Widows, and By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 12:31 pm
Eddie Murphy Vanity Fair: The Hollywood Issue 2020 Every year, Vanity Fair puts out a Hollywood Issue during award season, timed as Oscar momentum is building. This year, since the Oscars are earlier, the Hollywood Issue has come out earlier, just one day after Oscar nominations were announced. And, well, the timing is… The front cover features Eddie By Lainey • Jan 14, 2020 11:20 am
Royals Sussexit: After the Sandringham Summit As posted yesterday, after meeting with Princes Charles, William, and Harry yesterday at Sandringham about Sussexit, the Queen released a very personal, rather informal statement expressing that she and her family are “entirely supportive” of the Sussexes’ plan to step away from royal life and be independent, adding that there By Lainey • Jan 14, 2020 10:10 am
Issa Rae Intro for January 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, The Oscars this year do not have a host. But after Issa Rae and John Cho announced the nominations together yesterday, that’s the dream pairing for the internet right now. Would they want to do it though? I mean, you heard what Issa said after the Best By Lainey • Jan 14, 2020 09:14 am
What Else What Else? People talk a lot about mindfulness and part of being mindful is to be present in the moment. I have a hard time with mindfulness and staying present in the moment but now I think it’s because it’s never been properly illustrated to me. This photo of Keanu By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 05:16 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Pragmatic, Practical – and Perfect? Hi- hoping a note from a dad might be a fun change of pace for you. My wife and I are expecting a girl in 2 wks and are at loggerheads on not just a name, but a process to even get to a shortlist to find something mutually acceptable By Duana • Jan 13, 2020 04:55 pm
Gorgessity Zendaya’s new superpower Look, I know we’ve retired Zendaya from style consideration because she’s too good, just too f-cking good, and she’d be best dressed every time if she was still in the running. But we have to talk about what she wore to the Critics’ Choice Awards last By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 04:38 pm
We’ll always have Parasite Amid the Oscar nominations sturm und drang—mainly because the Academy as a whole refuses to reckon with their own biases and do the work of overcoming them—there are a few bright spots in the nominations. Shout out to Matthew Cherry’s animated short film, Hair Love, which is By Sarah • Jan 13, 2020 02:08 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 13, 2020 The Oscar noms are out and while I don’t have Lainey or Sarah’s insight into films, I think I am part of the target audience for the show. On a surface level, this nominee list is boring as hell. The Academy wants to draw in an audience and By Maria • Jan 13, 2020 01:45 pm
Royals Sussexit: an early win The Summit at Sandringham has concluded. Here are a few brief thoughts for now and we’ll get deeper into it as the evening progresses. For now, here’s the Queen’s statement following the meeting: First impressions? This was hastily written. It lacks the polish that usually accompanies the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 01:09 pm
Jennifer Lopez Oscars 2020: The Snubs Many of the headlines coming out of the Oscar nominations this morning read that the Academy has just “barely averted” #OscarsSoWhite because of the inclusion of Cynthia Erivo and Parasite which is true… I guess… but it’s also a total simplification. Because if nominating one Black person is the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 12:54 pm
Award Season Campaigning Joker is now 2019’s safest movie The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and somehow, in a year with a wealth of solid options that could provide a controversy-free Oscar month, the Academy still managed to irk and irritate. Lainey and Duana will have more on specific snubs and #OscarsSoMale on the next episode of By Sarah • Jan 13, 2020 12:06 pm
Relationship Assumption Gigi & Zayn 2020 I know all eyes are on Sandringham and we’re getting to the Oscar nominations in a bit but my teenage heart, currently obsessed with all the Korean and Chinese romance series on Netflix – to the point where it’s taking over my life and I have an embarrassing full- By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 11:25 am
Royals Sussexit: The Pre-Summit Leaks Buckingham Palace announced this weekend that the Queen has asked Prince Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry to convene with her at Sandringham today so that they can agree on a Sussexit plan going forward as they consider all the options for Harry and Meghan Markle’s new royal playbook. By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 10:23 am
Shout-Outs January 13, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs For Lisa and Travis, because it’s been two weeks since Euclid’s been gone. EUCLID! God I love that you gave her a mathematician’s name and she proceeded to live a life of superiority, exhausted by the simplicity of her peers and their silly catch-and-run-and- By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 09:03 am
