Style Oscar Isaac says “gay” Moon Knight starts streaming a week from today. As we saw last week, Oscar Isaac is currently on the press tour, serving up look after look, and he’s been on the junket, doing interviews, and during one of those interviews, with Variety, he was asked about the homophobic assholes By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 12:21 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate’s Tour: A Royal Mess Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas is not going the way they and the royal team had hoped. The hope, of course, was that this would be all sunshine and smiles and cute photo opportunities, and some good outfits. Definitely no controversy. Well, By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 11:29 am
Top Reads Angelina and Zahara’s Presidential Namecheck Angelina Jolie was in Washington DC yesterday for President Joe Biden’s signing of the reauthorisation of the Violence Against Women Act. She’s been part of the lobbying effort for this legislation for a long time, has been to DC time and again to meet with activists, alongside daughter By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 12:04 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Apple TV’s Pachinko, adapted from Min Jin Lee’s acclaimed novel by the same name, starts streaming on March 25 with the first three episodes dropping right away and then one a week until all eight are released. Reviews so far have been really strong. Rolling Stone By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 09:23 am
TV Updates Annie just met Jared Anne Hathaway is currently promoting WeCrashed, premiering this weekend on Apple+. Anne and Jared Leto play Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the WeWork scam couple, and while Jared’s doing another accent fresh off House of Gucci, Anne’s coming in with a new voice for her role, too. It’s By Lainey • Mar 16, 2022 11:35 am
TV Updates Selena Gomez is remaking Sixteen Candles for Gen Z It has happened, people who grew up in the Eighties. Enough time has passed that the Youths are reimagining the cultural objects of YOUR youth. Selena Gomez, along with playwright Tanya Saracho and writer/producer Gabriela Revilla Lugo, is reimagining the John Hughes coming of age classic Sixteen Candles as By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am
Equality Issues Amber Ruffin rips into Marvel and Disney Over the weekend, a clip from last week’s The Amber Ruffin show made the rounds online from a segment she calls “How Did We Get Here?”. In it, she details an appearance by Matoaka, or Matoax, better known as Pocahontas, in an issue of King Conan from February (written By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 02:48 pm
Style Emma Watson is “here for ALL the witches” It was about a year ago that the Daily Mail reported that Emma Watson was retiring from acting. It was a big story at the time and then it wasn’t because it turns out that it wasn’t true. Not really all that surprising considering the source. Emma presented By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 01:27 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Halle Berry received the SeeHer Award last night at the Critics Choice Awards. During her acceptance speech, she talked about starring in and directing Bruised, and asking someone she knew about what he thought of the film afterwards, honestly. He told her that he felt uncomfortable “seeing a By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 08:57 am
Equality Issues Ariana DeBose: A Leading Lady …who dances and sings Ariana DeBose was just profiled in Vanity Fair for their Oscar package. She is, of course, nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Anita in West Side Story and currently the presumed frontrunner. Articles like this will reach Oscar voters, it’s all part of campaign By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 01:13 pm
Top Reads Everything gets worse for Disney Over the last 24 hours, everything has gotten worse for Disney and its now-embattled CEO, Bob II. Following his mealy, both-sides memo addressed to Disney employees about the company’s stance re: Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, he is now facing backlash on multiple fronts. Let’s start By Sarah • Mar 10, 2022 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar winner Domee Shi’s new film, Turning Red, about a Chinese Canadian girl going through puberty is based in Toronto. So the premiere, fittingly, was in Toronto on Tuesday night. Domee was there along with cast members Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Rosalie Chiang. Domee won the By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 09:32 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’ve had “everything is awful” set to the tune of “Everything Is Awesome” stuck in my head for days, and all the anti-LGBTQIA legislation going on in the US right now isn’t helping. For a split second there, it felt like we were making some strides By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 09:11 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, Ahead of International Women’s Day next week, TIME has released its Women of the Year 2022 package featuring 12 “extraordinary leaders [who] are working toward a more equal world”. Among them is Zahra Joya, who started a news agency, Rukshana Media, in Afghanistan less than two years By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose: The surprising and historic supporting actors Easily the biggest “wow” moments of the SAG Awards came from CODA’s two surprise wins, both historic. Troy Kotsur became the first deaf actor to win an individual acting award (for Best Supporting Actor), and he became a two-time winner as part of the predominately deaf cast for Best By Sarah • Feb 28, 2022 11:07 am
Top Reads Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the NAACP Image Awards As mentioned last week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended their first major American award show this weekend when they received the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday. Easily embeddable video of their full acceptance speech has been tricky to find but here’s video of By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 09:47 am
