Oscars 2019 Michelle and Gemma: Crazy Rich Couture A quick aside before we get to Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan’s red carpet looks – remember all that business about fighting over presenters and the Academy telling people that if they presented at any other award shows, they wouldn’t be able to come to the Oscars? One of By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 06:07 am
Oscars 2019 Sarah Paulson, Queen of the Not-Pretty Pinks You will not catch me complaining that the surprise trend colour of the night was hot pink. There were furrowed-brow debates on the pre-shows as experts discussed which would be the surprise colour of the night, earnestly wondering whether navy’s time had come or if it might be a By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 05:45 am
Oscars 2019 Do The Right Thing, Oscars The Oscars did right by Spike Lee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. As we’ve established, it did not “do the right thing” in its choice for Best Picture. The most outspoken critic of Green Book’s win was Spike himself, who many outlets are reporting “stormed out” of By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 05:21 am
Top Reads Green Book is America’s Best Picture It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming. Awards season has been preparing us for the inevitable: Green Book as the 2019 Best Picture winner. America, and its almost comically disrespectful Black History Month of bad news, has been preparing us for this too. Since it won By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 04:54 am
Oscars 2019 The Academy is not ready for Netflix This was always going to be a possibility and from the moment the Oscar nominations were announced in January, I wondered if “the Academy’s solution might be to give Alfonso Cuaron and Roma their day in the director category but Best Picture…well…” Well. That is exactly what happened. By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 04:35 am
Oscars 2019 Amy, Tina, and Maya MeanGirled the Academy You may think that term has been overused and doesn’t mean much anymore, but how often do you get to use it on the O.G.s anyway? As Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey pointed out, they were not the Oscars hosts, despite being the first people By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:20 am
Oscars 2019 Intro for February 25. 2019 Dear Gossips, As we usually do, Duana, Kathleen, and I watched the Oscars together and at no point, as we usually do during award shows, did we say to each other… what? We’re only at XYZ category? It’s only been an hour? The Oscars went by quickly and By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 03:53 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Purgatory Panic Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second boy in just four weeks and we are stuck in name purgatory. We had our hearts set on August but our families lambasted us on that months ago and we haven’t been able to recover the original spark we By Duana • Feb 22, 2019 04:36 pm
What Else What Else? Mary J Blige’s marriage ended in a mess. And afterwards he came for her money because even though he didn’t respect her during their marriage, he felt she owed him the respect of keeping him in that lifestyle. Understandably she never wants to find herself in the same By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 04:19 pm
Business of Hollywood Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s Gold Party As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Roc Nation’s annual Grammys brunch has become one of the most well-attended events on Grammys weekend, perhaps THE most well-attended event, especially this year since the Grammys seemed lighter on megastar power than in years past. The brunch serves multiple purposes. First, By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 04:08 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Bridesmaid (and Oscar) food and fitness plan Hi Hayley, I love your column and am all about intentional fitness and doing it to feel good, rather than look a certain way. I don't have a scale in my house and instead just try to exercise regularly, eat mostly veggies, legumes and grains, and don' By Hayley • Feb 22, 2019 03:53 pm
Relationship Assumption Rihanna & Hassan at the Lakers game Even Rihanna’s in town for the Oscars. Well, not specifically for the Oscars. But the action is definitely in LA this weekend and RiRi’s always down for a party and a basketball game, especially when LeBron James is playing. As we’ve seen over the years, Rihanna is By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 03:06 pm
Lifestyle Kelly Rowland's Outfit of the Week This is a WTF choice, I know. A green sequin bikesuit situation with something that looks like a clutch attached to her neck. It’s not, but it reads that way from certain angles. Bonkers outfit. Almost a throwback to the pieces Miss Tina was making back in the early By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 01:47 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 22, 2019 They Beyhive might not forgive and forget, but Ms. Tina is too regal to hold a grudge. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tina Knowles (@mstinalawson) on Feb 21, 2019 at 5:39pm PST Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld hosted Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk’s wedding rehearsal By Maria • Feb 22, 2019 01:20 pm
Assy Style Gisele in white As it is every year, everyone comes to LA for Oscar week, whether they’re involved in the Oscars or not. Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady were in LA last night as she was honoured by the UCLA IoES for her environmental activism. Sure, they’re not just there to By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 12:14 pm
Andy Samberg The Lonely Island Announces their First Ever Tour I grew up watching Lonely Island sketches on SNL and YouTube, to the point where I can still sing/rap nearly every one of their tracks. In fact, this used to be my desktop background in high school for the longest time: That’s the original file too, I’m By Prem • Feb 22, 2019 11:11 am
