Award Season Campaigning Brad Pitt’s charm offensive Well sh-t. When’s the last time you saw Brad Pitt on a talk show? Not doing a bit like the weather or a bit with Colbert when they’re looking up at a fake sky or yodeling with Jimmy Fallon or walking across Jimmy Kimmel’s stage for By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 10:34 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna puts up a signal But first, stop it. I’m going to stop you right there because you’ve probably seen this trending on Twitter and everybody freaking out that Rihanna is pregnant. There are two reasons for this. Well, three. The first two reasons I will show you in a second. The third By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 09:49 am
Intro for September 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Happy Harvest Moon! Today is one of the most important days on the lunar calendar, one of the major holidays in Chinese culture. Some of us call it Chinese Thanksgiving. This is the time of year when we pass around moon cakes. Moon cakes By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 08:47 am
What Else What Else? Natalie Portman’s Lucy in the Sky premiered at TIFF last night and… there was an omission in the story. A major omission. An omission so offensive that people are in their feelings about it: it’s the diaper. You remember the astronaut in the diaper story, don’t you? By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 04:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harriet the Superhero Kasi Lemmons’ first feature film since 2013’s Black Nativity is Harriet, a long overdue biopic of abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and Union spy Harriet Tubman. It is amazing to me that it is twenty-goddamn-nineteen and we are only just now getting the first feature film about Harriet By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 04:28 pm
Style Zendaya your wardrobe “Zendaya” there in the title is used as a verb. My wardrobe, and my makeup, has been totally Zendaya-ed. For the last two weeks at TIFF, all I’ve been doing with my eye makeup is her eye makeup in Euphoria: glitter under the eyes, like crying glitter. It’ By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 03:49 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 12, 2019 Jenny Slate is engaged to art curator Ben Shattuck. (Art world men are like a celebrity husband sub-genre: Jennifer Lawrence is engaged to an art dealer, and Drew Barrymore’s ex Will is an art consultant.) Jenny’s hometown Dairy Freeze posted this billboard, which is better than any By Maria • Sep 12, 2019 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Laundromat of smugness So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Every other element of the film is either miscalculated or confusing. The Laundromat is By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo gets emotional Jennifer Lopez was all over New York yesterday because Hustlers. Who’s a better ambassador for the film than JLo? As I mentioned the other the day, Hustlers is receiving strong reviews and she’s been getting the strongest reviews. David Sims wrote at The Atlantic yesterday that she is By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why does Kristen Stewart have to share Seberg? The Jean Seberg biopic, Seberg, avoids a common biopic mistake: it doesn’t try to cover whole decades, instead focusing on a roughly four-year period when Seberg, an actress discovered by Otto Preminger but most famous for starring in films of the French new wave, got involved with civil By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 12:17 pm
Royals Royal Meghan’s Smart Set Meghan Markle launched her capsule collection today in support of Smart Works, a non-profit that provides wardrobe items for women who are re-entering the workforce. The Smart Collection features pieces from well-known British brands John Lewis, M&S, Jigsaw, and Meghan’s close friend Misha Nonoo. By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 11:33 am
Relationship Assumption Shawmila: The Fish Kiss I woke up this morning and #Shawn was trending on Twitter. Same goes for #Camila. They’re still trending. My first thought was that, oh sh-t, they broke up? Sex tape? Neither. It’s about what Shawn Mendes posted on Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 10:08 am
Style Intro for September 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, The other day, in this space, I posted about Yalitza Aparicio at the TIFF Tribute Gala. Yesterday morning Yalitza was front row at the Michael Kors show in New York wearing the headband of the moment. I love it on her. And I love this dress on her. By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 09:13 am
What Else What Else? Jeremy Renner is app-less now. But he is, apparently, doing some kind of lumberjack thing with Amazon? Wait, no. I think it’s…fishing? F-ck, I don’t know, I looked at the page once and ran away because I don’t want to live that life. People By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 05:40 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What Comes After Perfect? Hi Duana, I never thought I would need to write to you asking for your help, but here I am: 8 months pregnant with my second boy and totally at a loss. Our first, Magnus, is truly the perfect name - for us as a family and for him as an By Duana • Sep 11, 2019 05:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Zellweger: Ovations and Tears Renee Zellweger's unapproved-by-Liza-Minnelli Judy Garland London era biopic Judy premiered last night in Toronto to what could be the warmest reception of the festival. Like Just Mercy's eight-minute standing ovation and others for Pain and Glory, Uncut Gems, Waves and A Beautiful By Joanna • Sep 11, 2019 05:09 pm
