Gorgessity Cynthia Erivo brings it to Venice The Venice Film Festival kicks off today and if Cynthia Erivo is an indication, we are about to get a spectacle tonight at the opening gala. Cynthia is a member of the jury this year. Bong Joon-ho is the Venice 2021 jury president. That means the two back-to-back East Asian By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 10:45 am
Relationship Assumption Cynthia introduces Lena Social media has a short memory and a long memory. And that contradiction showed up last night when Cynthia Erivo introduced an edit featuring Lena Waithe. Last year at this time, Lena was about to or had just married her now ex-wife Alana Mayo; she confirmed the news in November By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 12:31 pm
Music Red Carpet for Teyana Taylor As I mentioned a few days ago, the first red carpet in almost four months (five? who can remember anymore?) happened earlier this week for a show I’ve never heard of and I only recognised two names on the guest list: Bai Ling and Ian Ziering. Last night’s By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 03:07 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, Are you watching HBO’s The Outsider? In Canada it airs on Crave. I mean, some of you must be because the show has been steadily climbing in ratings, it’s legitimately a hit. And critically acclaimed. But as Anne Helen Petersen tweeted the other day: Is THE By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 09:07 am
Oscars 2020 Cynthia Erivo: Best First Oscars It’s not that Cynthia Erivo hasn’t been to the Oscars before so, technically, it’s not her first Oscars. But it is her first Oscars as an Oscar nominee. Which is another level of special – to be invited to the show because you’ve been singled out for By Lainey • Feb 10, 2020 04:30 am
Style Cynthia and Charlize at the Nominees Luncheon The Oscars are less than two weeks away. The suspense this year is in the Best Picture and Director races. All the acting categories are pretty much locked up: Renee Zellweger for Best Actress, Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor, Laura Dern for Best Supporting Actress, and Brad Pitt for Best By Lainey • Jan 28, 2020 03:44 pm
Hook Ups Lena Waithe…and Cynthia Erivo?! About two months ago, Lena Waithe revealed that she and her longtime partner Alana Mayo had secretly married in August. It was on the press tour for Queen & Slim and she was talking about it everywhere. We asked her about it on The Social when she came to Toronto By Lainey • Jan 24, 2020 11:18 am
Jennifer Lopez Oscars 2020: The Snubs Many of the headlines coming out of the Oscar nominations this morning read that the Academy has just “barely averted” #OscarsSoWhite because of the inclusion of Cynthia Erivo and Parasite which is true… I guess… but it’s also a total simplification. Because if nominating one Black person is the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 12:54 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Leading up to Christmas, the predominant headline about Little Women was that they were having a hard time getting men to come to the screenings which may have been why the film was largely ignored by the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. So the box office By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 09:37 am
Golden Globes 2020 Cynthia Erivo & Scarlett Johansson: Globes Piercing Pals I am a garden-variety internet addict who loves clothing and spectacle, so during or after an awards show, I obviously search obsessively to find out who designed the outfits I love (or despise). I used to be better at the ‘I can guess that designer just by looking at it’ By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 09:45 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Cynthia Erivo Cynthia Erivo is promoting her lead role in Harriet, the first ever film about Harriet Tubman. As Sarah wrote in her TIFF review of the film, “there should be a million movies about Harriet Tubman”. Right now, though, Cynthia is celebrating her performance, which could be in contention for an By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harriet the Superhero Kasi Lemmons’ first feature film since 2013’s Black Nativity is Harriet, a long overdue biopic of abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and Union spy Harriet Tubman. It is amazing to me that it is twenty-goddamn-nineteen and we are only just now getting the first feature film about Harriet Tubman. There By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 04:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 24, 2019 Dear Gossips, I know it’s only July but with festival season approaching and the lineups at each of these festivals coming into focus, we’re getting a sense of which films will be contending during award season. We also have a new early frontrunner in the Best Actress race: By Lainey • Jul 24, 2019 09:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Widows Slay Steve McQueen hasn’t made a feature film since 12 Years a Slave, but he returns this fall with Widows, a film that could not look more different from 12 Years if it was shot on the moon. The first trailer has been released, and I immediately watched it three By Sarah • Jun 04, 2018 12:31 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Cynthia’s short pyjama suit We’ve seen more and more celebrities stepping out in pyjamas as streetwear and on carpets. This suit on Cynthia Erivo has the cut of pyjamas but the print and the brightness of a conventional red carpet outfit. It looks comfortable. And I love that the pants are short. To By Lainey • Feb 22, 2017 11:32 am
Theatre Nerd The Color Purple at the Tonys “I’m Beautiful, And I’m Here” People swear that you have to see Hamilton. People brag about their tickets, about their transformative experiences about the show. They refer to Lin-Manuel Miranda by his first syllable, they unearth obscure references in even the less-celebrated songs, and wave their merch around, By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 12:08 pm
