Media Manipulation 50 Shades of Repetition Well, we suspected it was coming, right? EL James has announced a new book, titled Grey, that will cover the same ground as 50 Shades of Grey, but from Christian’s perspective. Hasn’t it all been from Christian’s perspective? It’s not like Ana had a strong POV By Maria • Jun 01, 2015 01:15 pm
Books Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak are complicated and wealthy together It was announced yesterday that Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak will be paid 7.5 million dollars for a book that explores the details of their complicated, untraditional relationship. Seven Point Five MILLION dollars. Yes, publishing gives big advances to celebrity authors who are likely to sell well, and By Duana • May 22, 2015 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 21, 2015 Dear Gossips, Buzzfeed posted a photo on Twitter yesterday that made me hug myself. The Khaleesi and Neville Longbottom! Neville Longbottom + Mother of Dragons: pic.twitter.com/y3MFazNQcg— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 20, 2015 It came from Matthew Lewis’s Instagram. They’re working together on Me Before You which, presumably, By Lainey • May 21, 2015 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence & Nicholas Hoult’s mutant summer Yesterday while procrastinating on deadline and messing around on the internet (OK fine, creeping Brandon Flowers), I somehow came across this page, about whether or not Jennifer Lawrence could be the new Thor. Please don’t ask me how I went from Brandon Flowers to Jennifer Lawrence as Thor because By Lainey • May 19, 2015 12:07 pm
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for May 6, 2015 Dear Gossips, It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday. I have three gift recommendations. The first one is self-serving so I’ll start with it. My book: Listen To The Squawking Chicken. Which is now available on trade paperback and it’s about my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken. For By Lainey • May 06, 2015 08:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 1, 2015 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been reading this blog a while, you know I like to get down with a good horny book. And I’ve recommended several. Yesterday on The Social we interviewed filmmaker Laurie Kahn whose documentary Love Between The Covers is screening at Hot Docs this week. By Lainey • May 01, 2015 09:31 am
Books Intro for April 24, 2015 Dear Gossips, Yesterday (over afternoon tea at The Langham – because what else do you talk about over finger sandwiches?), Lorella and I exchanged anecdotes about our favourite subject: Elvis. This is one of the bonds of our friendship. Years ago we discovered that we both went through a period of By Lainey • Apr 24, 2015 09:01 am
Books Intro for April 21, 2015 Dear Gossips, There’s a book coming out this week. It’s called We Oughta Know by Andrea Warner, considered to be one of the “strongest young voices in music journalism”. I previously highlighted Warner’s work last year when she wrote about the 25th anniversary of Milli Vanilli. Click By Lainey • Apr 21, 2015 08:59 am
Amazingness Anna Kendrick, Essayist Sometimes the world gives and gives, and when you think ‘oh no world, this is too much’, the world gives you more. Anna Kendrick will release a series of ‘autobiographical humourous essays’ in the fall of 2016. I love this for three reasons. Number one, I think they will be By Duana • Apr 17, 2015 01:16 pm
Media Manipulation Nick to expose Mimi? The Daily Mail is reporting exclusively that Nick Cannon has signed a book deal and will be writing about all the sh-t that went down between him and Mimi… OMG. Do you want to know? Of course you want to f-cking know. But I have some questions. There was a By Lainey • Apr 02, 2015 03:56 pm
Music Intro for March 20, 2015 Dear Gossips, Zayn is always the one you worry about. He always seemed to be the most fragile. And he wears it on his body. So this “stress leave”, over a few photos that showed up on social media, and the ensuing anxiety for both him and his fiancée…I By Lainey • Mar 20, 2015 09:50 am
Books Intro for March 19, 2015 Dear Gossips, There was a LOT of Katie Holmes in Gossip yesterday. Like on top of what seemed like confirmation that she and Jamie Foxx are together, she posted a dance video to Instagram (which Maria covered in Smutty Social Media) and TMZ was all over her too… Did that By Lainey • Mar 19, 2015 09:34 am
Hook Ups Nick Cannon is single …but dating Jessica White? Nick Cannon was at the Apple store in New York the other day promoting his book Neon Aliens Ate My Homework. Last we heard, he’d been seen with Nicole Murphy. On the weekend, however, he was seen at a grocery store with another woman. Click here to see the By Lainey • Mar 18, 2015 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 18, 2015 Dear Gossips, The Divergent Series: Insurgent opens this weekend. Shailene Woodley and Theo James have been on promotion for it for the last couple of weeks. As you know, if you’ve been reading this blog for a few years, I was big on the first book (review here), then By Lainey • Mar 18, 2015 09:03 am
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup - March 16, 2015 Been on a really heavy reading streak the last few months. By heavy I mean volume and content. Part of it is that I let my shelf get too high. And I’ve been preparing for Canada Reads. The debates began today. Click here to see this year’s list. By Lainey • Mar 16, 2015 05:45 pm
Books Intro for March 10, 2015 Dear Gossips, Been on a really heavy reading streak the last few months. By heavy I mean volume and content. Part of it is that I let my shelf get too high. And I’ve been preparing for Canada Reads. The debates begin next Monday. Click here to see this By Lainey • Mar 10, 2015 09:25 am
