Music Taylor Swift: Daisy Jones Vogue Maria asked the other day if the “haircut” was still happening. Taylor Swift’s wearing it on the cover of September Vogue… so…yes? We’ll come back to the hair in a minute. Let’s talk about the overall styling of this cover. I love it. I love both By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 01:26 pm
Books Intro for July 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, I know that the common thing to say these days is that the internet is trash – as you read this on the internet – but without the internet, would we have Roxane Gay and Anne Helen Petersen and Allison P Davis and Jessica Pressler and Caity Weaver and so By Lainey • Jul 25, 2019 10:01 am
Books Intro for July 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this site regularly for some years now, you know we are Taffy fans here. (Taffys? Taffinators? Shouldn’t writers have stans too? Like their own Beyhives?) That would be Taffy Brodesser-Akner, known for writing some of the best profiles of the last By Lainey • Jul 10, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The search for Elvis Baz Luhrmann is making a film about Elvis Presley. The story is reportedly about his early years and the relationship between Elvis and his manager Colonel Tom Parker who will be played by Tom Hanks. Baz co-wrote the script with Craig Pearce and I wonder about the source material. By Lainey • Jul 03, 2019 12:07 pm
TV Updates Reese’s Big Little Fire Lies Are you watching season 2 of Big Little Lies? I enjoyed the first season but didn’t need a second season. The premiere seemed forced (like the hokey nightmares sequences). That cast can sell those characters, absolutely, I just don’t know if the storyline will support the talent. (Why By Maria • Jun 12, 2019 12:44 pm
Books Intro for May 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, Ziya Tong (pronounced ZYE-AH) is “one of the world’s most engaging science journalists”. She is vice chair of WWF Canada, an award-winning broadcaster who anchored Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet for 10 years, and former correspondent on PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. Oh yeah, and she’ By Lainey • May 14, 2019 09:29 am
Books Intro for April 24, 2019 Dear Gossips, This is what surprised me yesterday: Robyn Crawford has written a book about her time with Whitney Houston. A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston is due out in the fall. If you followed Whitney’s life and career, you now who Robyn is – in that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 09:40 am
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 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 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
