Equality Issues Blake Lively’s Women’s Studies Back when Blake Lively was trying to make Preserve happen, I wrote about her genteel treatment of Antebellum South and the way she reduced and glamourized a very problematic era. At the time, she got a ton of blowback from the article but she was still in her lifestyle bubble, By Maria • Jul 31, 2017 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake’s Husband’s Secret The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that Blake Lively will star in the film adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s book, The Husband’s Secret. The Husband’s Secret was published before Big Little Lies and it’s been in development since 2013. Now that Big Little Lies was such a success By Lainey • May 25, 2017 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively, Cage Fighting Mom Today in This Year Is Complete Nonsense News: Blake Lively will star in a movie about a woman who turns to cage fighting in order to keep her son. That’s right, Blake Lively, the self-appointed second coming of Martha Stewart, is going to play a cage fighter. The movie By Sarah • May 16, 2017 10:01 am
MET Gala 2017 Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds: MET Obligation You know I have opinions. And we’ll get to those in just a moment. But first I find myself having to say something… if not in Blake Lively’s defense, then on her behalf: We stay up all night to write, and it’s inevitable that sometimes I forget By Duana • May 02, 2017 12:00 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Blake’s over-fringe Marchesa. And it’s such a Marchesa dress. The signature feature of Marchesa: too much. Marchesa, the label, doesn’t know the meaning of enough. Which is why there is so much of everything here, on top of everything, and fringe. All that fringe on the sleeve, around the waist, By Lainey • Apr 26, 2017 03:39 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Blake Lively ‘Popping’, Anne Hathaway ‘Confessing’, Harry Styles Flirting, Badass Moms and Bad Idea Vacations...and Julia! Every week we pledge to pare down our list of topics and inevitably squeeze in one more… or maybe two. This week was the hardest yet because it was ALL good… Because when we discuss Blake Lively shutting down a reporter who asked what Blake felt was an inappropriate question By Duana • Apr 24, 2017 03:14 pm
Equality Issues Intro for April 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, On Friday, at the Variety Power of Women event, where Blake Lively was being honoured alongside Chelsea Clinton, Gayle King, Shari Redstone, Audra McDonald, and Jessica Chastain, Blake “popped off” when a reporter asked what her “go-to power outfit” was. Get it? Power of Women? Power outfit? Maybe By Lainey • Apr 24, 2017 08:19 am
Equality Issues Duana nominates: Sarah on Blake Lively Sarah wrote about “Cherokee Princess” Blake Lively back in January and today, on International Women’s Day, as we show our work and celebrate the work of our colleagues, Duana remembers this post for the way Sarah shared her own experience as an indigenous woman getting to know her own By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 10:56 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Blake’s fashion week flowers Blake Lively at the Michael Kors show today in, obviously, Michael Kors. I’m… not that excited by this dress? I say it like it’s a question because I feel like this is one of those dresses that we’re all supposed to like for the Colour! And the By Lainey • Feb 15, 2017 04:08 pm
Style Blake Lively is the People’s Choice What I do appreciate about the People’s Choice Awards is that it’s a popularity contest, as almost all award shows are, and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. The more prestigious awards are popularity contests too – Hollywood inner circle popularity and who can campaign harder to earn By Lainey • Jan 19, 2017 01:06 pm
Blake Lively Cherokee Princess Blake Lively L’Oreal is running an ad for foundation that includes people from all over the world announcing their heritage, such as “I’m 100% Kenyan” (model Giannina Oteto), and “I’m Eastern European” (transgender model and activist Hari Nef), and featuring such interesting people as Cipriana Quann, Xiao Wen Ju, By Sarah • Jan 13, 2017 12:56 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds is one step closer to Oscar We have seen an unprecedented amount of hustle and thirst from Ryan Reynolds this award season as he pushes Deadpool as the year’s most improbable contender. And, well, it’s working, because besides those Golden Globe nominations, Deadpool has also bagged a Writers’ Guild and now a Producers’ Guild By Sarah • Jan 10, 2017 03:35 pm
Golden Globes 2017 Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively: Globes prom king and queen I say this because where they were seated, they were on camera for every wide shot. And of course that would have been deliberate. Because the audience needs to see a couple like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, blandly goodlooking and guaranteed to not get you in trouble. No other By Lainey • Jan 09, 2017 09:51 am
Award Season Campaigning Ryan Reynolds wants to go to the Oscars Did it surprise you how visible Ryan Reynolds was in December? It’s not like he was promoting a movie. Wait, no. That’s wrong. It’s not like he was promoting a NEW movie. He was not promoting a new movie. He was promoting a movie that came out… By Lainey • Jan 06, 2017 03:37 pm
Name Nerd Blake, Ryan, and their daughters, DRAMA and ATTENTION Reynolds What? What’s wrong with those names? You think my headline’s over the top? I submit that’s what Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively may as well have named their children. Read on: This week we found out the name of their second child. It’s a girl, and By Duana • Dec 21, 2016 12:57 pm
Award Season Campaigning Meet the Reynolds Ryan Reynolds got a star on the Walk Of Fame in Hollywood today. Blake Lively was with him. And also their two daughters. This is the first time their children have been seen in public. So, as you can imagine, it’s a big story. And you know, they KNOW By Lainey • Dec 15, 2016 05:28 pm
