Top Reads Jared Leto’s Artistic Disability If I seem sensitive about this story, it’s because I am. My ma has a physical disability. Since 2010/11 she’s been living with a rare disorder called POEMS which is tricky to diagnose. Since it took so long for them to figure out what was wrong, they By Lainey • Apr 05, 2022 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, Writer Kyle Buchanan has a new book out, Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, which is an oral history of the making of Fury Road. I only just got my copy, and haven’t cracked it open yet, but knowing By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 09:21 am
Top Reads Prince Andrew faces “uncomfortable” but not “combative” deposition Virginia Roberts Giuffre is suing the non-HRH Prince Andrew, second son of the Queen of England, in US court, alleging that he raped her when she was 17-years-old after she was introduced to him as part of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking operation. Andrew has tried to get By Lainey • Jan 31, 2022 10:37 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Bears Like I said last week when it was confirmed that Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles and no longer an HRH, the royal family doesn’t get flowers for finally doing the right thing. It was the only thing – they had no other choice. That’s why they By Lainey • Jan 17, 2022 11:28 am
Top Reads Sienna Miller: A settlement not by choice Sienna Miller has accepted a “substantial settlement” from Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers after claiming that one of their publications, the Sun, hacked her phone and intercepted voice messages about her pregnancy in 2005. Sienna flew from LA to London and made a statement about the situation today. I’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 01:10 pm
Top Reads Netflix in the Battle of The Closer Warning: This article mentions transphobia and references transphobic comments. Just over a week ago, Sarah wrote about Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix Comedy Special, The Closer. Spoiler alert, it’s awful. I powered through ⅔ of it for this article, and I wanted to throw up the entire time. I ended By Prem • Oct 18, 2021 01:20 pm
Douchebags Jesy Nelson, Blackfishing, And Why it Needs to Stop There has been lots of chatter around former Little Mix member, Jesy Nelson, after her first single as a solo artist came out on Friday. After the song and music video for “Boyz”, featuring Nicki Minaj, dropped, conversations around blackfishing, cultural appropriation, and fetishizing started, but these conversations are some By Anastasia • Oct 15, 2021 12:59 pm
Douchebags Dave Chappelle’s new special is unwatchable I have long been a fan of Dave Chappelle, but I could not make it even fifteen minutes into his new standup special, The Closer, his sixth and final special as part of his gargantuan Netflix deal. He’s always had his blind spots, but when he’s on, he’ By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 10:22 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew: Feeling the Heat? Prince Andrew has kept a low profile since November 2019, after his disastrous interview with BBC NewsNight, which preceded the announcement that he’d be retreating from public duty. About a year later, around last fall, there were some suggestions that he’d been thinking about a comeback. Well. There By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 10:44 am
Top Reads Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues Prince Andrew The biggest story right now about the British royal family should not be about who was or wasn’t invited to a birthday party and what to a birthday party. What it should be about is the second son of the Queen of England being sued for sexual abuse. Prince By Lainey • Aug 10, 2021 10:50 am
Douchebags Chrissy Teigen Pokes Her Head Up On June 7, John Legend posted a photo of Chrissy Teigen and at the time, I wrote in Celebrity Social Media, “Is this her way of working back up to being “online” again? Is it John’s way of showing her support? Or is it something more ordinary – two parents By Maria • Jun 15, 2021 09:37 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew has a laugh Of course he’s laughing. For all the energy the British media has put into criticising Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for what they consider to be besmirching the royal institution, there hasn’t been anything even resembling that towards Prince Andrew for legitimately hurting the reputation of the British By Lainey • May 31, 2021 12:58 pm
Top Reads Power producer Scott Rudin is a toxic boss And “toxic” is putting it lightly. A new expose in The Hollywood Reporter goes HAM on Scott Rudin, the EGOT-winning power producer behind such films as Clueless, The Social Network, Doubt, Fences, the Addams Family duology, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and he’s a frequent producer for By Sarah • Apr 08, 2021 03:30 pm
Douchebags The Talk Unravels in Real Time We are seeing talk show The Talk unravel in real time. It might not be a bad thing; I think it’s good for talk TV in general and good for the public to see what happens when white fragility is accepted, centered, and in this case, upheld. Of course, By Melayna • Mar 16, 2021 11:15 am
Royals The Queen Responds to Harry and Meghan As I noted in my previous post about Prince Charles, there was word that Buckingham Palace could be coming out with a statement by EOD addressing what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said during their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Shortly after that article went live, a statement on behalf of By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 03:11 pm
