Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck by George Clooney: A First Look George Clooney’s latest film, the adaptation of JR Moehringer’s The Tender Bar, opens in select theatres the week before Christmas and will be available to stream on Amazon in early January. It’s George Clooney, it’s a holiday release, it’s a family and community and coming-of-age By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 12:39 pm
BFFs The Clooneys and Harry’s True Story The big royal story this week has been the announcement that Prince Harry has a publishing deal with Penguin Random House to release his first memoir. While the official statement from the publisher did not mention a ghostwriter, Page Six, which broke the story, reported that Harry is working with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 11:01 am
Top Reads Harry: His True Story The big royal headline of the week landed yesterday afternoon ET – Prince Harry is writing his memoir, to be published through Penguin Random House, “tentatively scheduled for late 2022”. As I wrote yesterday in What Else? , I’m not convinced that they’d always intended to make the announcement when By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 09:26 am
Books Emilia Clarke wrote a menstrual comic One thing that blockbuster success affords artists is the opportunity to get REAL WEIRD without fear of economic reprisal. Some people use this to create fantastic art without worrying about commercial concerns (Prince, David Bowie, Robert Pattinson), while some people become paralyzed by the thing that made them rich and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 11:48 am
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: The Month Ahead It’s the first day of June 2021, Pride Month, and also a big month ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So while we’re in this brief moment of calm, let’s look ahead to what we might expect from House Sussex in the weeks to come. Meghan By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 11:17 am
Books Intro for June 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today is June 1 – it’s the beginning of Pride Month! So let’s celebrate Billy Porter and here he is last week in New York visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an outfit that is just about as low-key as it gets where Billy is By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 09:22 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan Markle’s Bench It was announced today that Meghan Markle’s first children’s book, The Bench, will be released on June 8th by Penguin Random House. The book is written from a mother’s perspective about the relationship between a father and son, inspired obviously by Prince Harry and Archie’s bond. By Lainey • May 04, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lunge with Channing Tatum Channing Tatum wrote a children’s book called The One and Only Sparkella which comes out May 4. It’s the story of a dad and his daughter. I imagine there’ll be a book tour to promote? If that’s the case, we should be seeing more of him By Lainey • Apr 22, 2021 10:02 am
Books MBJ & Chanté: In Love in the Park Here are Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams today in Central Park working on the film Journal for Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington based on the memoir by Dana Canedy about her relationship with US Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King and the journals he left for their son who By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George and Ben on set George Clooney is currently directing Ben Affleck in the film adaptation of JR Moehringer’s The Tender Bar in Boston which they are pretending to be Long Island, if they’re staying true to the story told in the book about Moehringer’s affection and attachment to the neighbourhood pub By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 03:37 pm
Books Intro for March 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, If you love books, if you’re looking for a new book, today is a good day. Today is the release of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun, published by Penguin Random House, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. And we need it, By Lainey • Mar 02, 2021 09:46 am
Books I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I have been in a funk lately (EVERYBODY: Who hasn’t?!), which has meant that other than for work, I have not been able to process new content. I often eat dinner with my kids while we re-watch (and re-re-watch) Bob’s Burgers episodes, and my bedtime routine currently includes By Violeta • Feb 25, 2021 09:27 am
Maple Leaf Are You There, Judy? Thanks! I’ve made a point of reading Judy Blume books to my kid. That wouldn’t have even been worthy of writing down 20 years ago, but now that there’s been an explosion of kid and YA- lit, these books are somehow not seen as essential extracurricular texts, never By Duana • Feb 19, 2021 03:26 pm
Books Sarah Ferguson Brings the Romance Did you blurt out a “huh?” when you read that title? It is a statement of fact though. I haven’t lured you here on false pretenses. Sarah Ferguson is bringing the romance, this is what’s happening. And I think… if you haven’t seen it yet…you might By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 01:45 pm
Books My Favorite Things of 2020: Piranesi Like many people, I ended up reading more than usual this year. Sleep being especially hard to come by at certain points during the year, I found myself reading well into the night many times. The stand-out book for me this year is actually one of my recent reads, Piranesi By Sarah • Dec 17, 2020 02:54 pm
TV Updates The Road to Bridgerton The full trailer for Bridgerton, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of Julia Quinn’s popular series of romance novels, has dropped and it is the lavish, candy-coated confection we need at the end of this horrible year. I am unabashedly enthusiastic about Bridgerton—look at it! JUST LOOK AT IT!—and By Sarah • Dec 14, 2020 12:45 pm
