Exclusives The Katniss frontrunner: Jennifer Lawrence Exclusive It is currently the most coveted female role in Hollywood. The Hunger Games is expected to be the next major movie franchise and casting for Katniss has been an obsession for fans and pop culture pundits as we are just about a year away from the film’s theatrical By Lainey • Mar 02, 2011 01:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews One Day: the poster! We talked about this a lot just now on the liveblog – the poster for the One Day movie has just been released. For those of you who loved the book… Yes? I say yes. I say a thousand times yes! To me it captures so many things about the story By Lainey • Feb 15, 2011 08:37 am
Books Your Voice In My Head By Emma Forrest At 16 she was writing her own column for the Sunday Times. She was contributing to the Guardian by the age of 21. And Vogue, and Vanity Fair, and the Independent. At 22 she published her first book. It was very well received. Two more followed. Those By Lainey • Feb 07, 2011 07:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shirtless sipping water I Am Number Four opens in 3 weeks. Dreamworks is slowly cranking up the buzz for it. Click here if you missed my review. And as noted then, I think the movie will be better than the book. Because it was always supposed to be a movie, a giant James By Lainey • Jan 28, 2011 03:17 am
Style Gwyneth or Amy Chua? Who do you hate more, Judgy Moms? GOOP for her “A Day in the Life” working mom blog from a couple of weeks ago, or Amy Chua and the challenge to Western parenting that she threw down in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother? Have you read TIME By Lainey • Jan 27, 2011 05:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession They look like their brother Sarah Jessica Parker brought her girls Marion and Tabitha along as she walked James Wilkie – not James, but James Wilkie – to school this morning. They’re cute, non? And they look like their brother. Nose and mouth especially. After several months of downtime, SJP will soon begin work on two By Lainey • Jan 11, 2011 09:30 am
Books Room By Emma Donoghue I tore through this book in a day. Then I thought about it for days. I am still thinking about it. Strangely, and not by design, three of my friends happened to read it at the same time. And we had to discuss it too. On the By Lainey • Dec 14, 2010 03:44 am
Books I Don’t Want to be Her Big Sister. Written by Duana I was a Brenda Walsh fan. I wanted to be her. She was sassy, stand-up-to-parents-y, super hair and didn’t take crap. Plus it wasn’t just Brenda, it was so clearly Shannen Doherty herself. They were one and the same, and the By Lainey • Nov 12, 2010 07:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews My Katniss Jodelle Ferland dressed up as Katniss Everdeen for Halloween and posted the photo up on Twitter the other day (click here to see) and everyone lost their sh-t wondering if she’d been cast as the heroine of The Hunger Games. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl, By Lainey • Nov 02, 2010 07:51 am
Books George Clooney and The Worst Date Ever George Clooney arrived by train to Washington today for his meeting with the President about Darfur. A video of him on The Today Show is attached below. Not surprisingly, The Italian Queen did not join him. Instead, that’s the handsome John Prendergast by his side. At least it looks By Lainey • Oct 12, 2010 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tiger Eyes! Written by Duana Judy Blume has been posting about location scouts and casting on Twitter for “Tiger Eyes”. You remember it, right? The one where Davey’s father dies and she has to move to New Mexico and she meets Wolf in a canyon? It turns out it’s one By Lainey • Oct 12, 2010 09:15 am
Gorgessity Carey grows her hair out At the Never Let Me Go presser yesterday. I had hair like this in 1997 and should have loved it more at that time. How was that 13 years ago?!?! F-ck it’s only 9 and I can’t start drinking yet. As for the film, it has not By Lainey • Sep 14, 2010 03:35 am
Girlcrushes Tilda in Venice For Venus Noire last night. A vision. Tilda was there with Luca Guadagnino, her director from I Am Love. While promoting I Am Love a few moths ago, Tilda was interviewed by Katie Couric – did you ever see it? If no, it’s worth a look when you have some By Lainey • Sep 09, 2010 04:31 am
Books On The Hunger Games series The following post is heavy on spoilers. If you’ve yet to read Suzanne Collins’s series - The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay – and intend to (of course you intend to!), please note that there will be several major plot revelations in the analysis below. Thank you for your By Lainey • Sep 07, 2010 03:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Monsieur Dexter Have you read One Day yet? Please do soon. Because I always forget to alert for spoilers and it’s so hard especially when set shots are being released and besides, what’s the delay anyway? It’s one of the best books of the summer (my review is here) By Lainey • Aug 31, 2010 05:48 am
Harry Potter Great Skin & Gay YA As you know, I am all about reading YA. As I’ve noted, too many times, YA is way underrated. Good YA is as profound, complex, and insightful as any “adult” classified counterpart and again, if you don’t believe me, check out The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA) By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 05:27 am
