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 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
Book Review I wrote a book Shameless self-promotion here but this was the deadline I’ve been referring to. I was writing a book. I WROTE A BOOK! The book is called "Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)”. So now By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 03:43 pm
Chinese Squawking Chicken I wrote a book Shameless self-promotion here but this was the deadline I’ve been referring to. I was writing a book. I WROTE A BOOK! The book is called "Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)”. So now By Lainey • Nov 12, 2013 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 11, 2013 Dear Gossips, The big movie release this month is Catching Fire. There was a time however that November belonged to the Harry Potter movies. The first and second films in the franchise came out in November. Out of the series of 8, a total of 4 of them were November By Lainey • Nov 11, 2013 08:30 am
Books Intro for October 28, 2013 Dear Gossips, Hey generic Canadian readers – Ron Burgundy wants you to know he’s written the book of the year. LET ME OFF AT THE TOP: My Classy Life and Other Musings is due out on November 19. Here’s how the press release reads: “Ron Burgundy has taken the By Lainey • Oct 28, 2013 08:29 am
TV Updates Carrie von Trapp Carrie Underwood was at the TJ Martell Foundation Gala last night in New York. She’s in town because she’s working on The Sound Of Music, the live television production of The Sound Of Music to air on NBC in December. In which she’s playing Maria von Trapp. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2013 01:13 pm
Books Intro for October 22, 2013 Dear Gossips, Today is Allegiant day. I’m anxious. For several reasons. First – word is Veronica Roth is unsparing. So there will be losses. And there should be losses. If losses happen in the wizarding world, they sure as sh-t happen in dystopia. But also...and this is my By Lainey • Oct 22, 2013 08:58 am
Books Intro for October 8, 2013 Dear Gossips, Have you read Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell? Here’s my only complaint about the book: since I read it on my iPad, I couldn’t properly hug it. Hugging an iPad isn’t the same as hugging a real book. And as corny as it sounds, By Lainey • Oct 08, 2013 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Getting to know Newt Scamander J.K. Rowling announced yesterday that she would write the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, a movie set in New York, some 70-odd years before Harry Potter, and starring Newt Scamander. You’ve had 24 hours to process the following information: - Yes, there is wizarding By Duana • Sep 13, 2013 11:45 am
Books Intro for September 3, 2013 Dear Gossips, You ready? The long weekend is over. Summer is over. Gossip high season is before us. NY Fashion Week begins tomorrow. TIFF begins on Thursday. The Emmys are less than 3 weeks away. (Should we live-blog the show?) So the blog will be busy. And we had By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 08:30 am
