Style Intro for October 9, 2018 Dear Gossips, My personal favourite outfit at the American Music Awards last night: Constance Wu. Totally my jam – high collar, long, pretty sleeves, not tight to the body, lots and lots of leg…and the colour pattern of those sequins, MY GOD. Also her skin looked flawless. In other Constance By Lainey • Oct 10, 2018 07:55 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Constance’s London bangs I don’t remember seeing Constance Wu with bangs during the Crazy Rich Asians North American press tour. Here she is with long bangs last night in London at the CRA premiere. Not my favourite look. They’re so stringy. And, maybe this is my bias about bangs, but they’ By Lainey • Sep 05, 2018 10:59 am
Music Intro for August 17, 2018 Dear Gossips, Thank you for all your emails the last couple of days with your reactions to seeing Crazy Rich Asians. I can’t wait for more of you to see it on the weekend…because I really, really want to talk about the mahjong! Let’s talk now, though, By Lainey • Aug 17, 2018 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians review As the first predominately Asian film Hollywood has produced since The Joy Luck Club twenty-five years ago, Crazy Rich Asians has many eyes on it for many reasons, and it has the unenviable task of being everything to everybody. Adapted by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 04:21 pm
Gorgessity Constance Wu: leading lady Crazy Rich Asians is Constance Wu’s first role in a studio film. First! And she’s the leading lady. She is The Star. This is her character’s story. Which means that at last night’s premiere, she was the Julia Roberts of the event. I’m making a By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 7, 2018 Dear Gossips, Tonight is the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. I’m getting emotional just anticipating this carpet, what that carpet will look like, seeing the arrival of Asian actor after Asian actor, repping the first all-Asian English-language film by a major Hollywood studio in 25 years. I was By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance Wu’s: swearing and obligation Constance Wu covers the new issue of FASHION. I’m sorry if this is getting old for you if you’re a regular visitor of this site but it’s not often that we see an Asian-American actress on the cover of a fashion magazine in North America. It’s By Lainey • Aug 03, 2018 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians at CinemaCon It happened! As I was hoping for last week, Crazy Rich Asians was part of the Warner Bros presentation yesterday at CinemaCon in Vegas. This is evidently why the trailer was delayed until this week, so they could start building momentum for the movie – and it’s working. CRA has By Lainey • Apr 25, 2018 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians promises lavish romantic drama The trailer for Crazy Rich Asians has FINALLY dropped and OH MY GOD, how much have we missed movies like this? Romantic, funny, SOAPY DRAMA, lavish settings, cars, clothes. I feel like movies like this died with the recession a decade ago, and we’re only just coming back to By Sarah • Apr 23, 2018 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich…. TEASE! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. I need to do that some more, stand by: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! If you’re a regular visitor of this site, you know I’ve been waiting, for months now, for the first Crazy Rich Asians trailer. Every day I wake By Lainey • Apr 19, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance Wu: still bangs…but where’s the trailer?! Constance Wu was in New York yesterday promoting Fresh Off The Boat and, the photo agency caption says, Crazy Rich Asians. They’re starting to do early press for the movie. Kevin Kwan, the author of the book series, posted this shot on Instagram from the end of February with By Lainey • Mar 16, 2018 11:16 am
Oscars 2018 Constance Wu’s Oscar hair Constance Wu at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. As far as I know, this is the first time she’s attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Because her profile is growing. And it will only continue to grow as we approach the release of Crazy Rich Asians in August. If By Lainey • Mar 05, 2018 06:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alamak! CRA covers EW! I cried a little when I saw this on Instagram yesterday – the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, the stars of Crazy Rich Asians, based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s bestselling series. You know, the one I’ve been By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Crazy Rich Asians, the movie, will be released next summer, on August 17, 2018. The movie is based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s series. Constance Wu leads an all-Asian cast in a story about obscenely wealthy Asians and their petty By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 08:51 am
Donald Glover Intro for April 20, 2017 Dear Gossips, The TIME 100 came out today, the list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Here are my highlights: Riz Ahmed, presented by Lin-Manuel Miranda. I’ve only gone through about 20 or so of the 100 but so far, LMM’s is the best read, By Lainey • Apr 20, 2017 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Constance What else was the title for this post going to be? If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I’m a big fan of Kevin Kwan’s book Crazy Rich Asians and the follow-up China Rich Girlfriend. Last year I wondered why even though Crazy By Lainey • Feb 16, 2017 10:20 am
