Douchebags Brett Ratner too Who’s Next? There’s been a new “who” almost every week, sometimes every day, coming out of Hollywood. Who’s the Next Harasser/Abuser? By the time Who’s Next is over, who’ll be left standing in Hollywood? Earlier this week it was Kevin Spacey joining Harvey Weinstein, By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 11:28 am
Equality Issues Intro for October 30, 2017 Dear Gossips, Janet Jackson is currently on tour. Last week she performed in Chicago. And on Friday, accompanied by her brother Randy, she spent the day in Gary, Indiana where, of course, the Jacksons grew up. They visited their childhood home and she and Randy also stopped by Roosevelt High By Lainey • Oct 30, 2017 08:37 am
Top Reads Gab and Lena get real Lena Dunham makes a point to let us know that she and Gabrielle Union are close enough that she calls her “Gab” in a new piece for Lenny Letter. I can’t decide if this tidbit is annoying or charming. That’s how I feel about Lena Dunham most days. By Kathleen • Oct 24, 2017 08:59 am
Gross Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl It’s official. Justin Timberlake will headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. I’ve written about this already – twice. I wrote about it when the rumours first started back in August and again a month later when it was reported that JT was in final negotiations. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 09:27 am
Gross Intro for October 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, The only time I’ve ever written about James Toback was almost exactly 4 years ago, when he was promoting Seduced & Abandoned, and he decided to claim credit for “inventing” Robert Downey Jr. He also insisted that RDJ was a lot less interesting since getting clean and By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 08:30 am
Top Reads Lupita too Lupita Nyong’o has a Harvey Weinstein story too. She shared with the New York Times yesterday. As gross usual, there was a massage request. It did not happen at a hotel. Instead, Harvey invited Lupita to his home, and while his children were in another room watching a movie, By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:25 am
Equality Issues Another domino falls So far the list of People Whose Careers Are Cancelled includes Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price. In the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there has been much talk but not a huge amount of tangible action. However, signaling the reach of this thing is still growing, another By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 09:08 am
Equality Issues Kevin Smith’s decency In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, a lot of celebrities have been asked to comment on the situation. Many women have come out and spoken about their experience(s) with Weinstein, or men just like him, and some men, like Terry Crews, have shed light on how widespread By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 09:12 am
Equality Issues I Feel Pity: Mayim Bialik’s “Feminism” Hurts Raise your hand if Blossom broke your heart a bit this week. For a specific subset of women who make up the Oregon Trail Generation or whatever we’re being called these days, Blossom (and Mayim Bialik) was it, in terms of sassy-but-still-basically-rule-abiding role models who’d read as many By Duana • Oct 17, 2017 04:03 pm
BFFs Kristen Stewart: on many levels Last Friday Variety hosted a Power Of Women luncheon in Hollywood. Last night it was the ELLE Women In Hollywood event. The universe’s sense of timing sometimes can’t be explained. The ELLE event was attended by some of the most successful actresses in the business, many of them By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 02:45 pm
Top Reads Rose McGowan goes after the power Rose McGowan was reinstated on Twitter yesterday after being suspended for including a phone number in one of her tweets. Seems the break only strengthened her resolve. Because she came back to Twitter to blast Amazon, appealing directly to Jeff Bezos. In a series of tweets, Rose reveals that she By Lainey • Oct 13, 2017 10:02 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Ben Affleck lost his good luck charm I was raised in a home that’s all about feng shui and good luck energy. Every year, my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, provides predictions and readings for this site for every sign under the Chinese zodiac: what those born in the Year of the Monkey should avoid, if By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 11:44 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan suspended by Twitter Rose McGowan, who just yesterday defended Lindsay Lohan after Lindsay defended Harvey Weinstein, urging people to consider that Lindsay was shaped by the system that we are all interrogating now, has been the most visible and vocal critic of Harvey Weinstein, not just over the last week, but over the By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 09:47 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan calls out Ben Affleck Ben Affleck released a statement yesterday about the Harvey Weinstein situation. And then Rose McGowan called him a liar: @benaffleck “GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT” you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 11:18 am
Douchebags Harvey Weinstein, The New Yorker, Gwyneth, and Angelina It’s relentless now, the volume of reporting that’s accumulating about Harvey Weinstein’s three-decade-long predation. As mentioned earlier, Ronan Farrow’s piece for The New Yorker was published today – and the details are horrific. There were lives that were ruined. Asia Argento has never been the same. And By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 04:20 pm
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein & the Hollywood Hierarchy Harvey Weinstein was fired by The Weinstein Company, his own company, on Sunday. Before his termination, he sent a letter to other powerful Hollywood executives, asking for their support. According to The Hollywood Reporter the recipients of his memo included David Zaslav, Discovery Networks CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 10:07 am
