Top Reads Emma Watson, Evolving Feminism, and “T-ts” So Emma Watson is an actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She defined feminism as “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” She’s currently in the middle of a massive promotional campaign for Beauty and the Beast. Hence her March cover of Vanity Fair. By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 03:57 pm
Business of Hollywood Ruth Negga in green pre-Oscar Here’s Ruth Negga last night being honoured with the Oscar Wilde Award hosted by JJ Abrams and his production company Bad Robot in Santa Monica last night. As you know, she’s also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Loving. So, again, I ask By Lainey • Feb 24, 2017 11:28 am
BFFs When Gwyneth speaks of the Blessing Gwyneth Paltrow was in New York for Fashion Week yesterday, seated front row at the La Perla show. Gwyneth and La Perla’s creative director, Julia Haart, are collaborators. La Perla is sold on goop. So she was there to fulfill her business obligations, and part of that involved talking By Lainey • Feb 10, 2017 10:39 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart is “so gay” When it was announced a few weeks ago that Kristen Stewart would be hosting Saturday Night Live, I wrote that I was excited, excited because I thought she was ready, ready to claim all that’s been said about her over the last decade, and laugh at her public persona, By Lainey • Feb 06, 2017 09:02 am
Books Intro for February 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Roxane Gay tweeted out a link to the full text of the keynote address she recently delivered at Winter Institute about diversity – or, rather, how conversations about diversity have instead become conversations about absolution and will be meaningless without active learning and work, which requires us to By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 10:00 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 31, 2017 Dear Gossips, On this week’s episode of our Show Your Work podcast, Duana and I spent some time talking about Taylor Swift and the criticism she received after the Women’s March, specifically whether or not Taylor Swift can continue to be apolitical in these times, especially when her By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 09:00 am
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Taylor “spineless feminism” and Constance constant callouts Last week, after the Women’s March, Taylor Swift tweeted this: So much love, pride, and respect for those who marched. I'm proud to be a woman today, and every day. #WomensMarch— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 21, 2017 And, well, they came for her. Just read the comments By Lainey • Jan 30, 2017 05:05 pm
Top Reads Stand with Jessica Williams, Sit DOWN Salma Hayek Most people know Jessica Williams as a former correspondent for The Daily Show. She also co-hosts a hysterical podcast called 2 Dope Queens. Jessica Williams is funny, brilliant, and on the verge of becoming known as more than just that girl who used to be on The Daily Show. Sundance By Kathleen • Jan 30, 2017 12:51 pm
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Paparazzi and Morning TV Chrissy Teigen was at the Women’s March in DC on Saturday as Duana and I were recording the latest episode of our Show Your Work podcast. She was making headlines the day before for tweeting about an encounter she’d had with a paparazzo who used a racist slur By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 04:35 pm
Music MILCK can’t keep quiet God, I love hearing stories from the Women’s March protests on Saturday. Marches? How do we properly grammaticize what happened across the globe this weekend? I’ve spent the last two days looking over my photos, your photos, which we LOVE that you are sending, those amazing aggregate photo By Duana • Jan 23, 2017 10:38 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart is ready for Saturday Night Live At the height of the Twilight hysteria, I remember hearing from Twi-Hards who desperately wanted to see either Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson host Saturday Night Live. Taylor Lautner did it. But, until now, neither one of the two leads were given the opportunity or accepted the opportunity, although they By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 08:39 am
Douchebags Charlie Sheen’s thoughts on the women Because Hollywood loves giving problematic white men as many chances as possible, Charlie Sheen is promoting a new film, Mad Families. Yesterday he appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Here’s how US Weekly describes part of the conversation: This man holds a grudge. Charlie Sheen talked By Lainey • Jan 12, 2017 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Natalie Portmans = One Ashton Kutcher, and a Best Actress Update Natalie Portman covers the newest issue of Marie Claire UK. Inside, she talks about legalizing pot, her sense of humour, and, of course, Jackie. But she also reveals that as of 2010, Ashton Kutcher was worth roughly three times as much as she was in the eyes of Hollywood: “Ashton By Joanna • Jan 11, 2017 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hidden Figures movie review Hidden Figures had a big opening weekend. There are no words to express how happy this makes me. The fact that this film made money has power. It means that, hopefully, we’ll get to see more stories about the nameless, faceless women of colour who made history. As Lainey By Kathleen • Jan 10, 2017 12:56 pm
TV Updates Tracee Ellis Ross: Globes history Tracee Ellis Ross won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy, the first time an African-American woman has won in that category since Debbie Allen in 1983. That’s over 30 years. This is how she described her accomplishment backstage: "It means a lot," she told By Lainey • Jan 09, 2017 02:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck’s week of winning Casey Affleck started the week, and 2017, at the Palm Springs Film Festival where he received the Achievement Award. On Tuesday he was in New York to accept the Best Actor Award from the New York Film Critics Circle where he read aloud some of the worst reviews of his By Lainey • Jan 05, 2017 11:35 am
