Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. Intro for July 30, 2024 Dear Gossips, Olympics ratings are BIG, particularly in North America. Per The Hollywood Reporter, NBCUniversal is seeing a nearly 80% increase over their coverage of the Tokyo Games which, again, is a reminder that there’s nothing like live broadcast entertainment and, of course, the people who produce it. These By Lainey • Jul 30, 2024 10:12 am
Jock Smut The chaotic pre-Olympics party I’m trying to remember if the Olympics have ever been such an A-list celebrity parade before, or if it’s happening this year because the Games are in Paris, a major world fashion and culture capital, which is drawing a contingent of celebrities who might otherwise not be at By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 10:04 am
Break Ups Middle-Aged Man Beef Lainey emailed me yesterday about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly popping in on Snoop Dogg’s set at Will Ferrell’s Best Night Of Your Life 2 benefit event for Cancer For College, which helps cancer survivors pursue higher education (because treatment costs often wipe out college funds, we’ By Sarah • Oct 24, 2023 11:11 am
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globe nominations The Golden Globe Awards will not be broadcast in January, because of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past f-cksh-t. The organisation claims it has undergone sweeping changes but even getting to the point of agreeing to change seemed like such a challenge, right now there’s a lot of By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:19 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
Amazingness Intro for August 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, If you could do commentary on any Olympic sport, what would it be? For me, since I’m obsessed with sports commentating, I wouldn’t be choosy, I’d be good with any rotation, I’ll take whatever sport they put on at 3am. That said, if there By Lainey • Aug 03, 2021 08:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mimi Saves Christmas! As I just wrote in the previous post about Thanksgiving and gatherings, right now, many families around the world are facing the prospect not spending the holidays together. On a personal note, both my parents are immune compromised and in our city, we’re now basically on lockdown, and we’ By Lainey • Nov 27, 2020 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Addams Family doesn’t understand Wednesday The latest cinematic outing for the first family of weird is the animated The Addams Family, an attempt to rebrand the Addamses for the new millennium, or possibly just an exercise in brand management, as the whole thing feels like it exists solely to renew an IP license. The Addams By Sarah • Oct 16, 2019 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is McConaughey even acting? Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 02:25 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, November 2, 2016 I love Christmas movies that involves a bunch of family members going home for the holidays. The way Danny Glover mutters “who is this white man” kills me. A video posted by Mo'nique (@therealmoworldwide) onNov 1, 2016 at 3:57pm PDT I just want to point out that By Maria • Nov 02, 2016 05:01 pm
TV Updates Snoop Dogg vs Roots We don’t usually look to Snoop Dogg for important social commentary. Comedic relief? Sure. Blunt rolling techniques? Absolutely. But if you were to tell me last week that we’d be talking about Snoop and slavery in the same sentence, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Well, on By Kathleen • Jun 01, 2016 01:02 pm
