Blind Riddles Reese Witherspoon’s blind riddle As previously mentioned in the Kerry Washington post, Reese Witherspoon is featured in Entertainment Weekly’s Beyond Beautiful article and drops a blind riddle about opportunities for women in Hollywood: “About four years ago I got sent an awful, terrible script. And this male star was starring in it, and By Lainey • Feb 04, 2016 04:27 pm
Equality Issues Kerry Washington and the pressure to be extraordinary Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Elizabeth Banks, and Reese Witherspoon are featured together on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly for a discussion about women in entertainment – the pressures, the expectations, the inequality, their achievements, and their goals. The article is called Beyond Beautiful. In the highlighted excerpts, By Lainey • Feb 04, 2016 03:44 pm
Equality Issues Carol, Tina, Amy: the women who decide The SAG Awards were only two hours long. Did you recognise more of yourself and the people in your life in those two short hours than you have during an award show in a while? Sure, it wasn’t perfect. But before perfect, we have to get to better. One By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 08:45 am
Equality Issues SAG honours Orange Is The New Black The Screen Actors love Uzo Aduba. And they love Orange Is The New Black. As you saw on that stage and in these photos…the women! Women who may not have had a place in the industry before, celebrating the moment. OITNB is on Netflix. And, as we saw with By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 08:06 am
TV Updates The X-Files came back big The X-Files returned on Sunday night and even with a time delay thanks to championship football, the ratings were REALLY good. Even allowing for spillover football fans who tuned out within the first few minutes of the show, The X-Files pulled around 13.5 million viewers, which is great for By Sarah • Jan 26, 2016 11:58 am
Equality Issues Kristen Stewart on diversity and gender equality As expected, since the #OscarsSoWhite situation has dominated the entertainment landscape the last couple of weeks, the question is being asked of celebrities at Sundance. Here are Kristen Stewart’s thoughts on diversity in the industry: Nothing controversial there – an acknowledgement, a direction change, and then a quick exit. The By Lainey • Jan 26, 2016 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s finest hours Every time I turn on the TV there’s a commercial on for The Finest Hours. It’s about Pendleton rescue mission attempt in 1952. Two oil tankers were destroyed in bad weather and the Coast Guard, along with citizens on a surfboat, saved almost all the passengers. The film By Lainey • Jan 25, 2016 12:58 pm
TV Updates Shonda Rhimes deserves it After 10 days of #OscarsSoWhite, Shonda Rhimes accepted the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television on Saturday night from the Producers Guild Association. Have you read her book Year Of Yes yet? WHY NOT!?! We reviewed Year Of Yes on The Social last week. During the segment, I read By Lainey • Jan 25, 2016 09:42 am
BFFs The Privilege Games Leo’s reaction to Lady Gaga’s arm bump is now the 5th most viewed Vine ever. People love it, can’t get enough of it. It has spurred ridiculous stories of feuds and after-party confrontations (which high level gossips such as yourselves know are BS). Even though some (AHEM, By Maria • Jan 18, 2016 04:12 pm
Sports Ciara’s anthem dress Ciara performed the US national anthem to kick off the 2016 College Football National Championship Game last night in Glendale, AZ. Alabama beat Clemson to take the title. But a lot of people are talking about Ciara’s dress. Specifically, during her performance, ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein tweeted this: Dear By Lainey • Jan 12, 2016 01:22 pm
Media Manipulation Kristen Stewart is (finally) plotting In 2014, Kristen Stewart was featured in ELLE. I wrote at the time that the interview was frustrating. Click here for a full refresher, but this was the quote I was referring to: “Never at any point have I sat down and plotted how I should proceed from here on. By Lainey • Jan 06, 2016 10:21 am
Quiveration A New Year with My Obsession My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, went out last night for dinner in LA. You know what I love about her? I love that she’s keeping her own face. And that she’s not always heavily made up. That said, is it wrong for me to appreciate that? Serious By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 05:13 pm
TV Updates Jessica Jones sets a high bar for Marvel superheroines SPOILERS Now that you’ve had a chance to get through thirteen episodes of Jessica Jones on Netflix, let’s talk about this marvelous show (no pun intended). Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica, a one-time superhero who, when we first meet her, has been deeply traumatized. She’s not hiding By Sarah • Dec 09, 2015 09:39 am
Business of Hollywood Hollywood had a secret meeting about women which is not weird at all An interesting bit of news came out yesterday that back in October film industry insiders held a two-day think tank to brainstorm ways to promote the interests of women in the industry. The think tank was led by a “facilitation team” who has done similar work for companies like Google By Sarah • Dec 02, 2015 02:06 pm
TV Updates The Hero Of Her Own Story You’ve heard me rattle on all year about these televised musicals. The Wiz airs Thursday night on NBC, and it is going to be far better than the live musicals of the previous years, which is good for musical lovers but bad for live-tweeters. This article from the Hollywood By Duana • Dec 01, 2015 12:53 pm
Faux Gossip Jennifer Lawrence’s big weekend There have been several big movies this year. But the movie to open “in 87 foreign territories and 33,000 screens for the largest global launch” of 2015 is Mockingjay Part 2, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Right now Mockingjay 2 is projected to bring in $125 million from North American audiences By Lainey • Nov 20, 2015 11:11 am
