Music Intro for August 30, 2019 Dear Gossips, It’s the last weekend of the summer. I mean, not according to science but generally accepted in society – next week most people will have gone back to school and work after a lighter schedule the last couple of months; and the schedule goes balls out in entertainment By Lainey • Aug 30, 2019 09:15 am
Amazingness Intro for August 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’ve been saving this all week, because this is Friday content. What I typically need on Fridays in this space is a story or a celebrity who can deliver joy. Would Hugh Grant ever have imagined that it would be him? But that’s the point. He By Lainey • Aug 16, 2019 09:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for June 26, 2019 Dear Gossips, Trevor Noah was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last night; they played the Wheel of Political Impressions – and he was great. He also, in my opinion, gave the best analysis of all the late night hosts of Donald Trump’s “she’s not my type” explanation By Lainey • Jun 26, 2019 09:22 am
TV Updates Natasha Lyonne – she’s running Emmy voting begins today, and one of the hopefuls is Natasha Lyonne, star of Russian Doll. Yesterday she attended a Netflix “FYSee” Q&A to promote the show’s Emmy hopes, alongside show co-creators Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, her co-star Charlie Barnett, editor Todd Downing—that show depends By Sarah • Jun 10, 2019 05:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Let Billy Porter host a truth-telling roundtable Award season roundtable roulette continues, and this time, it’s the drama dudes up to bat. The roundtable features Stephan James (Homecoming), Diego Luna (Narcos), Richard Madden (Bodyguard), Billy Porter (Pose), Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal), and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon). That’s a solid group, and just as By Sarah • Jun 07, 2019 12:32 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for June 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, Let’s open today with what I sent Duana last night – “for your joy” is how I titled the message. Because I came down with a cold on Sunday that I think I may have passed on to her, as she was starting to feel it yesterday. There By Lainey • Jun 06, 2019 08:49 am
Music A Star is Born…and lives on forever Blair, our production coordinator at The Social, just walked into my office while I was watching Lady Gaga on Jimmy Kimmel last night. He raised his eyebrows, and I told him that “the A Star is Born Oscar campaign is still happening and the Oscars were four days ago”. Lady By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 01:26 pm
Award Season Campaigning Glenn Close still goes to the party Here’s my theory about Oscar dresses: if you’re a favourite to win, your Oscar fashion is going to be on the safe side. Because the pictures you take that night, in that outfit, are forever. They’ll be used for a long time. And you don’t want By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 08:30 am
Gossip Nostalgia Gwyneth on Oscar week I wasn’t expecting to see Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover of Variety this week, this of all weeks. It’s Oscar week. Gwyneth is not involved at all at this year’s Oscars, at least not yet, unless, of course, she’s to be announced as a presenter. Which By Lainey • Feb 19, 2019 01:22 pm
Media Manipulation Bradley and Irina’s Valentine’s dinner Bradley Cooper was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, likely pre-taped because he was out for dinner last night in LA with Irina Shayk for Valentine’s Day. Colbert presented Bradley with his Grammy for “Shallow” and, of course, they talked about A Star is Born, during By Lainey • Feb 15, 2019 11:05 am
Royals Prince Harry and Spike Lee When I wrote the other day about Prince William and Catherine at the BAFTAs, I wondered what Spike Lee said to William during the meet and greet. As mentioned in that post, Spike got pretty animated when Will approached him. And now he’s revealed what they talked about: Prince By Lainey • Feb 13, 2019 12:11 pm
Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper plays defence Last Friday, Sean Penn decided to grace us once again with his genius prose, writing a piece for Deadline about how his friend Bradley Cooper has a problem because he’s made the best film of the year and one of the greatest films of all time (according to Sean) By Lainey • Feb 13, 2019 11:07 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Richard E Grant: Oscar’s newest fanboy Award season’s best fanboy is a role typically occupied by Timothee Chalamet – at least it was last year and for part of this year. And it’s not even an official “role” since we only made it up for Timmy. Still. There was a vacancy, since Timmy is not By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley was embarrassed Bradley Cooper was in New York yesterday, continuing to campaign for Oscar for A Star is Born, and sat with Oprah for an interview. The quote making headlines today is about the “snub”. I’m putting that in quotes because… well… let’s get to what he said first. Of By Lainey • Feb 06, 2019 11:34 am
Style Lady Gaga, the nominee As people say about the Oscars Nominees luncheon, everyone is a winner. There are no losers (yet). Here’s Lady Gaga, the Oscar nominee, at the event yesterday in Louis Vuitton. We’ll come back to the fashion in a minute. This is about the experience, about the fact that By Lainey • Feb 05, 2019 12:14 pm
