Books Intro for September 16, 2014 Dear Gossips, I’ll Give You The Sun. A new book by Jandy Nelson, available today and, with 3 months to go, quite possibly my favourite book of 2014. I’m telling you right now, clear your weekend because as soon as you start, you won’t want to do By Lainey • Sep 16, 2014 08:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole’s books and movies Keith Urban stopped by the set of The Family Fang today in New York to visit Nicole Kidman. The two were seen walking around holding hands. The Family Fang, as you know, is based on the book of the same name by Kevin Wilson. I was excited about the prospect By Lainey • Aug 12, 2014 01:37 pm
Books Intro for August 11, 2014 Dear Gossips, Woman – An Anthology is a collection of short stories featuring the work of renowned writers Stephen King, Alice Munro, Lynn Coady, Robert E Howard, and more. All proceeds from the sale of Woman – An Anthology will support the Breast Cancer Society of Canada, funding programs that focus on By Lainey • Aug 11, 2014 09:13 am
Books Intro for July 29, 2014 Dear Gossips, Warner Bros has acquired the rights to Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch in partnership with RatPac Entertainment. That’s Brett Ratner’s company. Does it bite your ass that he called his company RatPac? I mean I get it. His last name is Ratner. But…that’s kind By Lainey • Jul 29, 2014 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole is Annie, not Camille Nicole Kidman acquired the rights to Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang almost 3 years ago. Click here for my coverage of the story and my thoughts on the book. Briefly, The Family Fang is about Caleb and Camille Fang, renowned performance artists, who use their children in controversial public By Lainey • Jul 16, 2014 11:53 am
TV Updates A female Thor, but not for the movies I don’t want to discount the importance of Marvel choosing to reimagine Thor as a woman for a new comic book run. It’s important that kids—any kid—looks at the characters we deem heroic and see themselves reflected back, and Marvel Comics has been diligent about diversifying By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 11:35 am
Music Lea Michele on holiday in Cabo Lea Michele is on holiday in Mexico with friends. Here she is at the resort enjoying some down time. She was working on Glee all year. She promoted her new album. And a book too. Am always curious about how songwriters pick songs – for other artists and themselves. Sia worked By Lainey • Jun 25, 2014 06:31 pm
Amazingness Hollywood & Poker Best gossip you’re going to read all week, I promise. Molly Bloom has written a book. She’s the woman who hosted high stakes poker games in Hollywood, known as the Poker Princess. Bloom not only organised the games, she also allegedly arranged for “massage therapists” to come in By Lainey • Jun 12, 2014 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 6, 2014 Dear Gossips, Box office experts are predicting that The Fault In Our Stars will be #1 this weekend, ahead of Tom Cruise’s Edge Of Tomorrow. People really loved that book. As previously noted, I did not love that book. I mean it was OK, it didn’t suck. But By Lainey • Jun 06, 2014 10:37 am
Books Intro for May 30, 2014 Dear Gossips, There was a tie at the Spelling Bee! God I love the Spelling Bee. If there’s anything that makes me hate people a little less, it’s the Spelling Bee. It’s these two kids going home every single day after school and studying the dictionary. It’ By Lainey • May 30, 2014 10:02 am
Books Intro for May 29, 2014 Dear Gossips, Yes Please. That’s the title of Amy Poehler’s book to be released in October. And yesterday on The Today Show, they released the cover. You like it? It’s so…neon 80s. It’s a memoir with a tweak. It will be illustrated. It might be By Lainey • May 29, 2014 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese’s Wild Oscar? Reese Witherspoon is currently shooting a movie with Sofia Vergara called Don’t Mess With Texas in Louisiana. She plays a cop, obviously, and Sofia is a felon, and they’re runnin’ from the law, from the law, I say, from the law! This won’t be the movie that By Lainey • May 21, 2014 01:15 pm
Books Intro for May 9, 2014 Dear Gossips, There was a moment last during my Q&A with Rainbow Rowell when Duana and I looked at each other and almost cried. An audience member asked Rainbow about the ending of Eleanor & Park and whether or not she’d always intended it to be that By Lainey • May 09, 2014 09:18 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for April 28, 2014 Dear Gossips, What do you want to talk about today? Want to talk about how I wish I had a dire wolf and would give up all gifts for the rest of my life in exchange for one? Probably not. Or how about Selena Gomez and...Orlando Bloom? Not that By Lainey • Apr 28, 2014 08:48 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken I'm a Page Turner I am an only child. My parents divorced when I was six years old. I wasn’t an outgoing person. I didn’t have a lot in common with the other kids at school, often being the only Chinese student in a classroom full of people whose parents also grew By Lainey • Apr 25, 2014 09:42 am
Books Intro for April 16, 2014 Dear Gossips, I’m reading a book right now called Remember The Time: Protecting Michael Jackson In His Final Days by Bill Whitfield, Javon Beard, and Tanner Colby. Whitfield and Beard were MJ’s bodyguards at the end. They were with him always. And the children too. And they saw By Lainey • Apr 16, 2014 10:11 am
