Books Jessica Simpson tells her stories Jessica Simpson is on the cover of PEOPLE to promote her upcoming memoir, Open Book. She’s leading with a big admission: that she had a problem with pills and alcohol but is now sober. (The PEOPLE excerpt also includes details of her childhood sexual abuse.) View this post on By Maria • Jan 23, 2020 01:12 pm
Books Intro for January 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, My friend and colleague, Cynthia Loyst, is one of the most sensitive, empathetic, and seductive people I know. She has a big heart and feels deeply. Her first instinct is to relate her feelings to others, so as to better understand them. And, on top of all that, By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 08:38 am
Books Intro for December 31, 2019 Dear Gossips, Ending the year and the decade in this space with a book, just released today: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. This is her first book, which makes Kiley Reid what I like to call an FBB - First Book Bitch. Previous FBBs include Yaa Gyasi (Homecoming) By Lainey • Dec 31, 2019 09:29 am
TV Updates Intro for November 19, 2019 Dear Gossips, As you know if you’ve been visiting this site over the last year or more, Duana and I love Daisy Jones & The Six so much we dedicated two whole episodes of Show Your Work to the book and its author, Taylor Jenkins Reid. If you haven’ By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 08:45 am
BFFs Whitney according to Robyn If you are a fan of Whitney Houston, you know about Robyn Crawford. Robyn was Whitney’s best friend from adolescence to adulthood. Robyn was Whitney’s creative director for a while and toured with her often. Where there was Whitney, there was always Robyn, until Robyn quit and left By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 10:16 am
Books Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft Reading After a self-care break of my own, we are back with new entertainment self-care recommendations , because we all need a goddamn mental vacation every now and then. This time, we’ve got reading recommendations for you, and yes, my break entailed re-reading a lot of romance novels. That’s our By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 03:49 pm
Books Intro for October 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, On the To Do List this weekend: buy a new golf shirt, play golf, see Maleficent, screen The Morning Show, and read Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life, Ali Wong’s new book. The conceit here is that she’s writing By Lainey • Oct 18, 2019 09:05 am
Books Jonathan Van Ness’s Memoir and the Power of Vulnerability Every time I go to a party (so like once a year), my ice breaker is usually, “which one of the Fab Five is your favourite?” It’s like a personality quiz for your friends. If you don’t watch Queer Eye, I leave immediately. If your favourite is Antoni, By Prem • Sep 24, 2019 11:10 am
Books Intro for September 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, She was formerly known as “unconscious intoxicated woman” and as Emily Doe, who was raped by Brock Turner behind a dumpster. As she wrote in her impact statement that was published by Buzzfeed and read around the world: For a while, I believed that that was all I By Lainey • Sep 05, 2019 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Little Women Grows Up With Us Wowwwww. Clearly Lainey and I have made a mistake on Show Your Work, because we have yet to talk about the importance of having A Muse, and clearly it is working out for Greta Gerwig. Have you seen this trailer? Little Women has been highly anticipated and highly debated, because By Duana • Aug 14, 2019 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway’s thoughts on anger Anne Hathaway covers the September issue of Allure to promote her upcoming film The Last Thing He Wanted, directed by Dee Rees. Most of the headlines out of this interview relate to her comments about weight and body in Hollywood. And we’ll get to that in a minute but By Lainey • Aug 14, 2019 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina gets her own franchise Awkwafina continues her amazing summer with the news that she is getting her own franchise. We learned at Comic-Con that she will co-star in Marvel’s Shang-Chi, and now she will star in her own potential franchise vehicle, The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, based on the book by A. By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 04:06 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Daisy Jones Vogue Maria asked the other day if the “haircut” was still happening. Taylor Swift’s wearing it on the cover of September Vogue… so…yes? We’ll come back to the hair in a minute. Let’s talk about the overall styling of this cover. I love it. I love both By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 01:26 pm
Books Intro for July 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, I know that the common thing to say these days is that the internet is trash – as you read this on the internet – but without the internet, would we have Roxane Gay and Anne Helen Petersen and Allison P Davis and Jessica Pressler and Caity Weaver and so By Lainey • Jul 25, 2019 10:01 am
Books Intro for July 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this site regularly for some years now, you know we are Taffy fans here. (Taffys? Taffinators? Shouldn’t writers have stans too? Like their own Beyhives?) That would be Taffy Brodesser-Akner, known for writing some of the best profiles of the last decade. By Lainey • Jul 10, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The search for Elvis Baz Luhrmann is making a film about Elvis Presley. The story is reportedly about his early years and the relationship between Elvis and his manager Colonel Tom Parker who will be played by Tom Hanks. Baz co-wrote the script with Craig Pearce and I wonder about the source material. If By Lainey • Jul 03, 2019 12:07 pm
