TV Updates Kerry as Anita Hill Check out Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the upcoming HBO biopic Confirmation about Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court senate hearings. This was almost 25 years ago. I was 17, in my last year of high school. It was all over the TV. It would be another year before I By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 12:48 pm
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Lawrence: not a skin and not a prim I’m still thinking about that THR article on Skin vs Prim yesterday. Click here for a refresher. Actresses were classified into two groups: Skins and Prims. The piece failed to point out that for the most part, the Skins are older, while a majority of the Prims they cited By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 12:20 pm
Amazingness Inside Out with Amy & Mindy Inside Out was beloved in Cannes. Like unanimously praised. Pixar has made a movie about what it’s like to be inside a young girl’s head. Pixar has made a movie about mental health. Pixar has made a movie that encourages young people to talk about their feelings. Pixar By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 11:26 am
Business of Hollywood Gwyneth: was a “prim”, now a “skin” Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a party for Windsor Smith yesterday in LA. It looks like there were a lot of upper classy people there. Click here to see more guest photos. Almost no front page names other than G but you can tell this is a scene where a certain social By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 04:23 pm
Media Manipulation A Tale of Two Blondes TIME Magazine has two new interviews up, one with Gwyneth Paltrow and one with Blake Lively, for its new issue about the growing phenomena of actresses with lifestyle businesses. Obviously, this is something that we’ve talked a lot about here with Goop, Preserve, The Honest Co., Draper James and By Maria • Jun 05, 2015 03:09 pm
Douchebags Chris Brown’s idea of romantic Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran broke up 3 months ago, when she found out that another woman had his baby after a one night stand which… really? Like is safe sex extinct now? We couldn’t get away from that message when I was a teenager growing up in the By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 5, 2015 Dear Gossips, Melissa McCarthy’s Spy opens this weekend. So far, the reviews are excellent. At post time, Spy is rated 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is expected to take the box office. That’s amazing and it’s important. Because finally Melissa McCarthy is in a feature that’ By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Britney Ninja Turtle Oh look. It’s Megan Fox on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in New York and you’re thinking of Britney Spears. Me, I’m thinking of Michael Bay. And whether or not this is the Michael Bay Women’s Team uniform. After all, this is a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2015 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Lady Ghostbusters are the only interesting kind of Ghostbusters So says Paul Feig, the director of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot. In an interview with AlloCine while promoting Spy, Feig said the only way he can see to remake Ghostbusters is to reimagine it with women. I love that he says this, that the only way it makes sense to By Sarah • Jun 02, 2015 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews After-bro: The Entourage movie I read a great article over at Slate this weekend: How Entourage went from critical darling to cultural punching bag. Basically we’ve changed since Entourage first launched. We’ve asked for more in the way women are represented, not just in relationship to men, but in the way we By Lainey • Jun 02, 2015 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling & Feminist Mad Max Ryan Gosling was photographed yesterday in Hollywood, apparently on break from shooting The Big Short in New Orleans. He looks really good here. Last time I posted pictures of him he had dark hair (click here for a refresher) and I still haven’t washed the bad flavour away yet. By Lainey • May 27, 2015 09:50 am
Dumbass Rebel Wilson’s hella stupid scandal This week the internet was scandalized when an Australian tabloid ran a story asserting that Rebel Wilson has been lying about her age and background since breaking out in Bridesmaids. Wilson’s age of record was 29, and she had at various points claimed to grow up in the “ghetto” By Sarah • May 21, 2015 11:06 am
Xenu Tom Cruise’s gap Tom Cruise is currently in Atlanta working on Mena. Here he is on set yesterday showing off a gap in his teeth, obviously for the character. He’s playing Barry Seal, a real life pilot in the 80s who became a drug smuggler. Seal was supposedly a really big dude. By Lainey • May 20, 2015 03:12 pm
Music Intro for May 20, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you watched the Feeling Myself video yet? I can’t stop watching Beyonce and Nicki Minaj dedicate an entire video to celebrating themselves. Please. Isn’t every video a self-celebration? If you’re going to do it – and they ALL do it – you might as well do By Lainey • May 20, 2015 10:19 am
Style Emily Blunt’s Cannes debut Emily Blunt has been to Cannes for a few parties here and there. But I don’t recall ever seeing her at the Palais, representing her own film. It’s well worth the wait though as she was joined by Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin today at the photo By Lainey • May 19, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The “Men” vs Mad Max The photo call and presser for Mad Max: Fury Road happened in Cannes this morning. Click here to read my review from yesterday. I have no doubt the audience at the Palais would have loved it. Like I wrote yesterday, the movie is straight up, balls out mental. Half the By Lainey • May 14, 2015 10:04 am
