Movie Reviews and Previews The Fleabagging of Jane Austen Persuasion is arguably Jane Austen’s most mature work, reflecting not only the honing of her literary voice and sharpness of her dialogue, but also her most mature and sensible heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman in her “second bloom”. Disappointed in love as a debutante, years later—in her late By Sarah • Jun 15, 2022 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion II I SWEAR I didn’t plan this, but it happens to be the opening night of the Chicago Critics Film Festival tonight, for which I am a programmer, and our opening film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, just got a new trailer. But since it HAPPENED, I am here to say By Sarah • May 13, 2022 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion Here is Dakota Johnson out yesterday in New York City. Why am I drawing attention to Dakota Johnson walking out of a hotel? Shameless self-promotion, of course. Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth, a new film from annoyingly young filmmaker Cooper Raiff, and one week from tonight, Cha Cha By Sarah • May 06, 2022 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson suits up Bolstered by the back-to-back success of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony continues to expand their non-MCU Spider-verse, adding Dakota Johnson to the roster in a Madame Web movie. This will be Sony’s first female-fronted superhero movie, and the film is set to be By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 03:23 pm
Music Chris Martin’s Universe Coldplay just announced a world tour today. Music Of The Spheres World Tour #MOTSWT 💚❤️ https://t.co/OsnkikGE4m pic.twitter.com/aDdE9i3Wak — Coldplay (@coldplay) October 14, 2021 This is coming off the success of their collaboration with BTS on the song “My Universe” which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 02:57 pm
Music Doo-wop and Dakota Johnson Last month, Lainey sent me a Twitter thread by ridiculing a specific type of celebrity profile – the daughter of a famous parent. Here’s just some of it: “I hate the word privilege” she sighs, as she fidgets in her Celine shirt. “I was the last of my friends to By Maria • May 13, 2020 10:24 am
Relationship Assumption Robert & Suki, Chris & Dakota: Lockdown Love Updates Let’s start with Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse. Since we first found out they were dating, almost two years ago now, Robert and Suki have been pretty good about semi-regularly (but unintentionally) updating us that they’re still together. They were last seen in public at Paris Fashion Week By Lainey • Apr 20, 2020 02:53 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Dakota and Chris in isolation Here are some shots from a few days ago of Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin out for a walk with her dog in Malibu. They’re not like Ben-Ana levels of PDA but there’s some affection here. That said, they’ve been together a lot longer than Ben Affleck By Lainey • Apr 02, 2020 10:41 am
Celebrity Real Estate Dakota Johnson’s “tree house” Sometimes, when a celebrity shows off their house in Architectural Digest, they end up selling it. Or there’s a big change happening in their lives. Back in 2018, just before they announced their split, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s home was featured in AD. As soon as their By Lainey • Mar 12, 2020 11:35 am
Kurt Russell Gwyneth & Dakota’s Aspen Christmas Mimi isn’t the only one spending the holidays in Aspen and she isn’t the only one who always spends the holidays in Aspen. Kate Hudson is an Aspen regular at Christmas because Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been going to Aspen for years, joined by their good By Lainey • Dec 24, 2019 01:43 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Hollywood Film Awards: Family, Friends, and Mentors The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 03:36 pm
BFFs Gwyneth, Brad, Chris, Dakota: a year and a weekend Gwyneth Paltrow has been in New York the last week promoting The Politician, celebrating her birthday, and the one year anniversary of her marriage to Brad Falchuk. I LOVE the Gucci outfit she wore for her birthday dinner with those black ribbon white sneakers, also my favourite. She also shared By Lainey • Sep 30, 2019 12:10 pm
Relationship Assumption Dakota and Chris did not break up Back in June, it was reported that Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin were over even though, up to that point, we’d been hearing that they were getting more and more serious. When I wrote about their alleged split, I made mention of the source. Because the source was the By Lainey • Aug 06, 2019 10:32 am
Break Ups Gwyneth in stripes Maria noted in Celebrity Social Media yesterday that Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t post anything for Father’s Day like she did last year when she shouted out both her husband, Brad Falchuk, and her ex-husband, Chris Martin, who is now, reportedly, Dakota Johnson’s ex-boyfriend. G and Chris are close. By Lainey • Jun 18, 2019 03:18 pm
Chris Martin Did Chris Martin take this picture? Maria mentions Derek Blasberg often in her Celebrity Social Media posts. He’s the Truman Capote of our time – only there’s no way he’ll sabotage his celebrity friendships with a barely-veiled story outing all their secrets. Derek celebrated his birthday a couple of days ago. And Gwyneth Paltrow By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 10:53 am
Relationship Assumption Chris, Dakota, and the “bonus mom” Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson were seen yesterday out in Malibu for a dog walk. They’ve now been together for a year and a half. At one point there was a pregnancy rumour because of the colour of the balloons they had at the house for a birthday party. By Lainey • Apr 01, 2019 12:56 pm
