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 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 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 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
TV Updates Intro for July 30, 2018 Dear Gossips, Season 6 of Orange is the New Black premiered on Netflix on Friday. Which means, as Danielle Brooks said late last year, “…we’re closer to the end than we are to the beginning”. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 were greenlit at the same time. There’s been By Lainey • Jul 30, 2018 09:29 am
Books Malia in Paris Malia Obama turned 20 on July 4th. It’s fitting that one of the only first daughters I recognise was born on Independence Day. It may not have been a birthday celebration but Malia Obama was photographed living her best life in Paris on Sunday, strolling around with her boyfriend By Kathleen • Jul 18, 2018 10:07 am
Books Intro for June 29, 2018 Dear Gossips, Canada Day is on Sunday so it’s a long weekend here in Canada which means we will be dark on Monday and back to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. Long weekend or not, here are some weekend recommendations other than Drake – we’ll get to Drake, eventually, By Lainey • Jun 29, 2018 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this blog regularly over the last 15 years, maybe you’re tired of me evangelising about YA books. I’m not sorry about this. My favourite book, period, of 2017 was Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. One of my favourite books By Lainey • Jun 22, 2018 09:33 am
Books Intro for May 23, 2018 Dear Gossips, Chances are, you’ve read a book by Marian Keyes. Rachel’s Holiday? Sushi for Beginners? We interviewed Marian last year on The Social when she was promoting her most recent novel, The Break. The Break, and all of Marian’s books, are classified as “chick lit”, a By Lainey • May 23, 2018 10:15 am
Books Reese Witherspoon’s Whiskey in a Teacup I will never knock Reese Witherspoon’s business acumen or hustle – her pivot from lukewarm rom-coms (they seriously don’t make them like they used to) to multimedia producer, actress, and dealmaker has been a resounding success. And with that, Reese has broadened her spectrum outside of Hollywood, supporting By Maria • May 01, 2018 10:19 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 24, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Warner Bros presentation at CinemaCon is scheduled for today. And I’m hoping that that’s why the Crazy Rich Asians trailer was released yesterday – because the studio is, presumably, beginning to build the hype around the movie in front of theatre owners ahead of its August By Lainey • Apr 24, 2018 09:21 am
Books The Philosophy of Kanye West Kanye West is writing a book of philosophy. In conversation with interior designer Axel Vervoordt for Pret-a-Reporter, Kanye revealed that he’s working on a book called Break The Simulation. Of course, he is. The same day, Kanye West reactivated his Twitter account. That was not a coincidence. By Kathleen • Apr 18, 2018 10:08 am
Style Amal Clooney covers Vogue Amal Clooney is writing a book. This is mentioned in her Vogue cover story, released today: For the past couple of years, Clooney has been writing a book with Philippa Webb, her Hague officemate, now on the faculty of King’s College London. The book is called The Right to By Lainey • Apr 10, 2018 03:39 pm
