Books Intro for April 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, So it’s time for me to harass you again about reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. To be honest, every day in this space I want to harass you about it. But sometimes I don’t have an “excuse”, which then leads to me questioning By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonoya Mizuno is Araminta Lee If you have no idea who Araminta Lee is, it means you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians. And if you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians, I’m yelling at you to read Crazy Rich Asians. THR reported yesterday that Sonoya Mizuno has joined the cast of Crazy Rich By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 01:01 pm
Books Victoria Beckham 2017 Back in January, we featured Victoria Beckham on an episode of the Show Your Work podcast. Duana was the one who pitched her for the Do We Need To Care About….? segment that we do at the end of every show. I mean, of course we need to care about By Lainey • Apr 07, 2017 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Nick According to The Hollywood Reporter, they found Nick! Henry Golding has been cast as Nick Young in the Crazy Rich Asians movie. Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh were already attached to the project as Rachel Chu and Eleanor Young (Nick’s ma). So now they’ve got their two leads, By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 10:37 am
TV Updates Where’s Aunt Viv? "The first Aunt Viv was the best Aunt Viv." Not only is this an undeniable fact about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it’s also a line in The Hate U Give. I had been meaning to read it. It was on my list. Then, on Saturday, Lainey By Kathleen • Mar 28, 2017 01:45 pm
Books Intro for March 27, 2017 Dear Gossips, There’s a book bandwagon that’s been steadily gaining momentum over the last few weeks. I just hopped on that bandwagon this weekend. Calling someone a “bandwagon follower” is generally not a compliment. So you can criticise me. But I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed By Lainey • Mar 27, 2017 08:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston, beauty queen mom If you’ve been visiting this site a while you know my love of YA books. One of my favourite YA books, Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun is being adapted into a movie for Warner Bros and Jandy is writing the screenplay herself. Sarah just wrote By Lainey • Mar 16, 2017 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans is “surrendering” That’s what he was reading when he spoke to Esquire for their new issue to promote the upcoming Gifted – The Surrender Experiment. Have you read it? It was a book people were talking about a couple of years ago, in short about letting life lead you. I got through By Lainey • Mar 15, 2017 03:50 pm
Books Intro for March 14, 2017 Dear Gossips, When was the last time you saw A Room With A View? For me it’s been years. I forgot most of it. I forgot how funny it was. Or maybe it’s funnier to me now in different ways. TIFF kicked off its 7th annual Books On By Lainey • Mar 14, 2017 09:33 am
Books Intro for February 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Roxane Gay tweeted out a link to the full text of the keynote address she recently delivered at Winter Institute about diversity – or, rather, how conversations about diversity have instead become conversations about absolution and will be meaningless without active learning and work, which requires us to By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 10:00 am
TV Updates Framed and Big Little Lies Back in September, the LA Times ran a 6 part true crime series about PTA moms called Framed. Did you read it? My eye was f-cked at the time with this and I went to a walk-in clinic that weekend and started reading it on my phone. You know what By Lainey • Dec 05, 2016 04:30 pm
Books Intro for November 29, 2016 Dear Gossips, Last year I spent a week stalking Paula Hawkins, the author of The Girl On The Train, the bestselling book of 2015. I interviewed Paula four times over a period of days, starting on etalk, then on The Social, then at a bookstore, and finally I moderated her By Lainey • Nov 29, 2016 08:39 am
Books Intro for November 17, 2016 Dear Gossips, New Zadie Smith interview! New Zadie Smith interview! Her book, Swing Time, came out this week. Have you started? Do you love it? I’ve about 100 pages to go to the end, don’t want it to end, and I didn’t have a highlighter with me By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 10:08 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor has to tell Andy Cohen’s new book Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries came out today. Andy is tight with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa. He hangs out with John Mayer. So as much as he says he’s telling Hollywood tales, the tales he can safely tell are By Lainey • Nov 15, 2016 11:42 am
Books Intro for November 9, 2016 Dear Gossips, It’s hard to miss the point that was made last night. The point was, as David Remnick wrote in The New Yorker, that the Other is not equal, not welcome, and, maybe, not safe. That point is devastating and it has been taken very personally. Worse, for By Lainey • Nov 09, 2016 10:01 am
Books Intro for October 31, 2016 Dear Gossips, Zadie Smith’s new book, Swing Time, comes out on November 15th. It’s about two friends who meet at a community dance class in the early 80s but only one of them has the gift for dance while the other has the gift of observation. I’m By Lainey • Oct 31, 2016 08:35 am
