Coincidence or conspiracy Beyoncé for Michelle Obama Earlier this morning, after we’d wrapped the Show Your Work podcast, #BeyoncéHomecoming special episode, Duana, Kathleen, and I were still high off of what we’d just watched and talked about and Kathleen kept saying, “What a time to be alive”. Duana and I kind of giggled – but it’ By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 11:33 am
Books Intro for April 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, My favourite book of 2019 (so far) was released in Canada and the US today. I wonder if you’ll feel the way I did when I read it: I’m only 75 pages in but I get it now why people are so into this book and By Lainey • Apr 16, 2019 08:58 am
TV Updates Reese and Jen’s Morning Show As Sarah just wrote, Apple brought out the stars yesterday at its big TV presentation. Apple TV+ will be launched this fall, which is the old-school television model, and probably its most highly anticipated series is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, alongside Steve By Lainey • Mar 26, 2019 10:10 am
Books Gwyneth’s here to help I came back to work on Monday and practically everyone in the office is either “eating clean” or doing a “dry January” or substituting everything with cauliflower or doing Peloton. It’s January. It happens every January. We go bonkers in December with the parties and the holiday gatherings and By Lainey • Jan 09, 2019 11:01 am
TV Updates Intro for November 21, 2018 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is American Thanksgiving and I didn’t know this until Vulture pointed it out the other day but Friends apparently has the “most and the best” American Thanksgiving episodes which inspired their “definitive ranking of Friends Thanksgiving episodes”. Some of the humour in Friends does not hold By Lainey • Nov 21, 2018 09:09 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Harry & Meghan Day 15: “What Meghan wants” Almost there. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have just completed their second-to-last day of events on their first overseas tour. They visited the Northshore Riding Club where they competed against each other in a “wellie wang” (tossing rainboots), and planted a tree for the Queens Canopy, and met with Pillars, By Lainey • Oct 30, 2018 11:39 am
TV Updates Let’s Get Busy I have been banging on about Busy Philipps's This Will Only Hurt a Little all week on Smutty Social Media and judging by my inbox, Busy is reaching what I will call the CTZ (Chrissy Teigen Zone). That’s when a famous woman’s career gels into a By Maria • Oct 26, 2018 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jen and Dolly “politickin’” together? As covered in the previous post, Dolly Parton started her Oscar campaign yesterday for the Dumplin’ soundtrack. Last week, when I wrote about Dumplin’, there had yet to be a release date. We have one now – the movie will start streaming on Netflix December 7th and also have a limited By Lainey • Oct 23, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 19, 2018 Dear Gossips, Something really exciting happened this week: Judy Blume has finally agreed to have Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret turned into a movie. Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen, a movie I loved) will write the screenplay and direct. James L Brooks will produce. Kelly By Lainey • Oct 19, 2018 09:11 am
TV Updates Busy Philipps’s gossipy book Busy Philipps’s book, This Will Only Hurt a Little, came out yesterday. I can’t wait to read it this weekend. And I was trying to avoid reading the excerpts but some of these are so good that it’s impossible to look away. This is a gossipy book By Lainey • Oct 17, 2018 12:36 pm
Books Intro for September 25, 2018 Dear Gossips, We had the most vibrant guest on The Social yesterday and I’m now totally f-cking obsessed with her. Her name is Sisonke Msimang. Sisonke was born in exile in Zambia in the 70s. Her father was a freedom fighter working with the ANC. Her family moved around By Lainey • Sep 25, 2018 09:29 am
Books Intro for September 24, 2018 Dear Gossips, Today is Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Moon Festival, one of the most important holidays of the lunar calendar, which is commonly observed in East Asia, and known in Chinese culture as Chinese Thanksgiving. This is why you may have seen moon cakes everywhere. I don’t love a By Lainey • Sep 24, 2018 08:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
TV Updates Intro for August 31, 2018 Dear Gossips, Peter Kavinsky, wait, no, I’m sorry, Noah Centineo did a photo shoot with puppies but that wasn’t the best thing I watched online yesterday. I mean, it was great. And here’s a screenshot of it… …which of course when it finally comes out in full By Lainey • Aug 31, 2018 09:07 am
Books Intro for August 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, Before Crazy Rich Asians opened, director Jon M Chu talked about what the success of the movie could do for other stories. He mentioned that he knew of several other projects in development that were waiting for the greenlight and that people were waiting to see how CRA By Lainey • Aug 28, 2018 10:20 am
Books Justin Timberlake’s “Hindsight” It was announced on Friday that Justin Timberlake is coming out with a book. What’s it about? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT’S ABOUT? His favourite topic: himself. If there’s anyone who can reliably be a cliché, it’s Justin Timberlake. Which is why the title of the By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 04:26 pm
