Dumbass “Too street” to be Bond After #BackToHogwarts, Idris Elba is currently the biggest trending topic on Twitter at post time. It’s because Anthony Horowitz who wrote the new Bond book, Trigger Mortis, has offered his opinion to the Daily Mail on whether or not Idris Elba would be a good James Bond: “Idris Elba By Lainey • Sep 01, 2015 11:14 am
Amazingness Intro for August 27, 2015 Dear Gossips, I’m never the kind of person who starts playing holiday music before Halloween but after yesterday, you know what we kinda need? We need some Christmas. You know who owns Christmas? Come on. It’s Mimi. Always Mimi. Christmas is Mimi season. Mimi wrote one of the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Salma Hayek presents Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet Salma Hayek has worked hard as a producer to get Lebanese philosopher Khalil Gibran’s seminal collection of poem-essays, The Prophet, to the big screen, and she’s finally succeeded, in the form of an animated film. The book, one of the most popular in the world, is a By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 12:49 pm
Girlcrushes Mindy Kaling, Confidence Evangelist There’s nothing more clichéd to me than “PREACH!”. And yet, reading Mindy Kaling’s excerpt from her upcoming book in Glamour, about how to achieve confidence, there’s no other word for it. Let’s cut to the chase here: “Confidence is just entitlement…entitlement is simply the belief By Duana • Aug 06, 2015 12:43 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Charlize & August I saw these new shots of Charlize Theron out in LA yesterday wearing a really, really great top, I want it really, really bad, and realised we haven’t talked yet about the news that she’s adopted a daughter. TMZ had the exclusive a few days ago. The baby By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 04:27 pm
Books Smutty Social Media, Friday July 31, 2015 Selma Blair and a very young Jakey G. He had total boyband hair! One of my favorite friends. A lifetime ago. Seattle. #jakegyllenhaal #fbf A photo posted by Selma Blair (@therealselmablair) onJul 31, 2015 at 10:09am PDT Rebel Wilson fly-boarding in Ibiza. Is this like a trampoline on By Maria • Jul 31, 2015 04:23 pm
Books Luckiest Girl Alive I first saw Luckiest Girl Alive on Reese Witherspoon’s Instagram feed, and I knew that she was obviously going to buy the book’s film rights – would she be promoting it otherwise? Tracy Flick knows what she’s doing. So when I found myself on a 5-hour flight, By Maria • Jul 30, 2015 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Room the movie Have you read Emma Donoghue’s Room? I reviewed the book a few years ago – click here to read that post. I met Emma Donoghue. Heard her speak at an event at my alma mater, Western University. She was asked to talk for 7 minutes about creativity. She ended up By Lainey • Jul 30, 2015 12:06 pm
Hook Ups Michelle Williams is in love because she reads A couple of years ago I blogged about my obsession with writer couples: Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer. Click here for a refresher. Jonathan Safran Foer you know, likely from Everything Is Illuminated. Have you read Krauss’s The By Lainey • Jul 29, 2015 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill can’t say about Grey Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer are currently promoting The Man From UNCLE. He’s also been rumoured for a part in the Fifty Shades sequel. So E! asked him if it was true – and this is how he reacted: OK, so basically they’re trying to do the deal now? By Lainey • Jul 22, 2015 05:20 pm
Douchebags Jesse Eisenberg knows his words Jesse Eisenberg was at Comic-Con. Was Jesse Eisenberg at Comic-Con because he’s in a small budget, independent movie shot in a café in Brooklyn from a screenplay written on an old-fashioned typewriter? Actually, no. Jesse was at Comic-Con for a movie called Batman vs Superman. By Lainey • Jul 15, 2015 11:41 am
Books Intro for July 14, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you read Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman yet? It came out last week. Duana and I have been angst-ing about it for months and finally on Sunday she was like, after I’d been telling her repeatedly that I’m too scared, are you By Lainey • Jul 14, 2015 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan’s tongue Jamie Dornan was in Prague today promoting Anthropoid. He looks GOOD. I quite like this shot of him sticking his tongue out. On the subject of tongues… Grey, the book. You read it? Click here if you missed Maria’s review. I’ve stopped at 20%. Which means it’s By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 05:17 pm
Books Grey is Beige Yesterday, Lainey wrote about the #AskELJames hashtag hijacking (click here for a refresher) and, having read the book, I can understand where (and who) those tweets are coming from. People like me who spent $11.99 on Grey. I’ll start with the bad and get to the worse (things By Maria • Jun 30, 2015 12:15 pm
Amazingness Intro for June 30, 2015 Dear Gossips, Judy Blume is currently in Toronto promoting her new book In The Unlikely Event. Duana wrote about it a few weeks ago – click here and click here for a refresher. This is exciting. Actually, it’s the MOST exciting. And I know many of you understand. I know By Lainey • Jun 30, 2015 10:03 am
Books #AskELJames Have you been following this on Twitter? If not, do a search for #AskELJames. E.L. James, the author of Fifty Shades Of Grey, decided to participate in a Twitter chat today, I guess to promote the new book, Grey, and, well… That’s kind of Twitter is for, isn’ By Lainey • Jun 29, 2015 03:45 pm
