Books Intro for January 22, 2014 Dear Gossips, Thanks for all your messages and recommendations re: the New Adult post from yesterday. Duana has one too: Penelope by Rebecca Harrington. This being Duana, please note it takes place at Harvard, of course, and it’s a satire which doesn’t exactly fit in with the over-earnestness By Lainey • Jan 22, 2014 09:17 am
Book Review New Adult Books But first… Have you read Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park and Fangirl yet? Please do. I’m going to nag you about this until you do. And if we were in person together, I would withhold this list until you proved to me that you did. Thanks for your By Lainey • Jan 21, 2014 04:38 pm
Books New Adult Books But first… Have you read Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park and Fangirl yet? Please do. I’m going to nag you about this until you do. And if we were in person together, I would withhold this list until you proved to me that you did. Thanks for your By Lainey • Jan 21, 2014 04:28 pm
Books Intro for January 16, 2014 Dear Gossips, I have just entered the third and final trimester of my book pregnancy. And I had promised that I would treat it like a baby pregnancy – be super self-indulgent and talk about it all the time, every page edit was supposed to be a baby kick – so I’ By Lainey • Jan 16, 2014 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 9, 2014 Dear Gossips, Someone yelled at me yesterday for disrespecting the People’s Choice Awards. Here’s why it’s hard to take the People’s Choice Awards seriously: Adam Sandler won for Favourite Comedic Movie Actor. I mean… Sandler and Drew Barrymore have a new movie coming out, their 3rd By Lainey • Jan 09, 2014 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet the Dunnes David Fincher, who directs the upcoming movie adaptation of Gone Girl, shot the new cover of Entertainment Weekly featuring his two stars Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck. I love it. I f-cking love it. Right down to the perfect swirling curls of her hair laid out on the slab. The By Lainey • Jan 08, 2014 10:38 am
BFFs Chickpea soup for Cameron Diaz? They’re close friends, Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow. G has been advising you what to put in your body for a while now, since the launch of GOOP. Chickpeas and water is what she’s recommending to start your year. Cameron Diaz has just released her first book The By Lainey • Jan 06, 2014 09:55 am
Books The Cameron Diaz Lifestyle Cameron Diaz Instagrammed this photo of herself yesterday. She’s wearing (relatively) little makeup. She’s holding a copy of her book The Body Book. It goes on sale on New Year’s Eve. Here’s the description from the publisher: Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, By Lainey • Dec 12, 2013 11:04 am
Hook Ups Harry & Daisy UK gossips are rumouring that Harry Styles has started up a situation with model Daisy Lowe, daughter of Gavin Rossdale and ex-girlfriend of Matt Smith. They went to a birthday party together, and any hot girl seen in his vicinity is, naturally, totally f-cking him. Since the two were both By Lainey • Dec 03, 2013 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson looks really good Principal photography on Fifty Shades Of Grey is now underway in Vancouver. Here’s Jamie Dornan in character as Christian Grey, who’s really just EL James’s reimagining of Robert Pattinson eating her out. So…how does Dornan look as Pattinson? Well, he looks really good. Better than the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2013 09:43 am
Books Intro for November 26, 2013 Dear Gossips, I made meatloaf last night. For the first time ever. Seriously, it turned out amazing. Meatloaf always seemed so complicated. How does it all stay together, like bread? The reason I made meatloaf is because a few weeks ago, someone sent me a copy of Jessica Seinfeld’s By Lainey • Nov 26, 2013 09:47 am
Books Intro for November 22, 2013 Dear Gossips, We interviewed Amy Tan yesterday on The Social. I’ve been a fan a long, long time. Tan is currently promoting her new novel The Valley Of Amazement. It is once again a portrait of a mother-daughter relationship set in a courtesan community in Shanghai over a hundred By Lainey • Nov 22, 2013 09:04 am
Book Review Allegiant This post contains spoilers. Please click away now if you’ve not yet read the book. I will include some filler text below to make sure that the article cuts off without giving anything away. cjaopa[oboaiboaboab;oubaub’pabjpambl’abaib’a;j’abk’bpiapibapi [ai [bpiabi a[bb [i[ai By Lainey • Nov 14, 2013 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Allegiant This post contains spoilers. Please click away now if you’ve not yet read the book. I will include some filler text below to make sure that the article cuts off without giving anything away. cjaopa[oboaiboaboab;oubaub’pabjpambl’abaib’a;j’abk’bpiapibapi [ai [bpiabi a[bb [i[ai By Lainey • Nov 14, 2013 09:33 am
Media Manipulation Fifty Shades of lip touching Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan “in character” as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, now pushed back 6 months to open in February for Valentine’s Day 2015. As you can see, Johnson’s Anastasia is all reticent and By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 11:27 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for November 13, 2013 Dear Gossips, Duana asked me last night how my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, reacted to the announcement of my upcoming book about her, Listen To The Squawking Chicken. Well, she came over yesterday when I was at work to drop off some ginseng soup. Normally she doesn’t come By Lainey • Nov 13, 2013 09:43 am