Equality Issues Intro for December 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, PEOPLE Magazine has released its People of the Year covers. There are four of them, including the legend Dolly Parton. Dolly could be a person of the year every year and at 75 she’s as busy and as booked as ever – as PEOPLE says, she has her By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 09:17 am
Equality Issues Sandra Bullock’s Red Table Talk Look, I know that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are a LOT. Especially lately with all the revelations coming out from his book, and on top of the whole “entanglement” thing that they told us about last year. At the same time, we can also talk about the influence of By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 10:42 am
Top Reads Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Gap Ahead of the release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up next month, Jennifer Lawrence covers the new issue of Vanity Fair, her first magazine profile in a long time. Over the last couple of years, almost every time I’ve posted about JLaw, I’ve written about her By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 12:02 pm
TV Updates Simu Liu: Tuesday night before Saturday night Saturday Night Live is all about tradition. There’s a schedule to the week that, by now, is probably familiar to pop culture enthusiasts. On Tuesday night, the week’s guest host goes out for dinner with the SNL team. Simu Liu is the host this coming Saturday and last By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 02:31 pm
Music A New Kind of “Man of the Year” I’m waiting for someone to look at me the way Lil Nas X looks at Lil Nas X. Named one of GQ’s Men of the Year, he’s sharing the cover with himself, showing off the duality of his masculine and feminine energies in a couture photoshoot. In By Cody • Nov 16, 2021 11:13 am
Style Vogue brings back SJP At the end of my post about Lady Gaga’s British Vogue cover story last week, I wondered who would cover American Vogue, if it wasn’t Gaga, who is American, in the December issue. Would it be someone major? We found out yesterday – it’s Sarah Jessica Parker: This By Lainey • Nov 09, 2021 12:38 pm
Top Reads Cecily Strong’s Abortion Clown In this edition of Cecily Strong is amazing and underrated, her “Clown Abortion” segment on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. Blah, blah, blah there are some people who go on Twitter or Reddit or whatever every week to bitch the same basic bitch bitch: SNL isn’t funny anymore By Lainey • Nov 08, 2021 09:47 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Following the breakout success of Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times Presents is debuting a new documentary on FX/Hulu on November 19 called Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. We’ve seen a spate of documentaries focused on famous women of the aughts, from Britney By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 08:58 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, How are we at the second last month of the year? Already?! Since it’s that time of year, the annual best and “…of the year” lists are now coming out. WSJ. Magazine has released its Innovators issue last week and hosted a celebration, with several of their By Lainey • Nov 02, 2021 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Riz Ahmed, Cover Star Riz Ahmed had a huge 2020 with Sound of Metal, which earned him his first Oscar nomination—the first time a Muslim actor was nominated for Best Actor—and he’s back in 2021 for another potentially huge year. Thanks to pandemic delays, he has two movies doing the fall By Sarah • Oct 21, 2021 02:08 pm
Top Reads Billy Porter’s Problem with Harry Styles Billy Porter’s gender-bending looks have made him a red carpet fashion icon. That’s not up for debate. I guess what is up for debate is whether he deserved to be on the cover of Vogue showing off his gender-fluid fashion choices instead of Harry Styles, who became the By Cody • Oct 20, 2021 12:49 pm
TV Updates The Bachelorette...Again Last night was the season premiere of Michelle Young’s run as the Bachelorette, and as much as I love the franchise, I am EXHAUSTED. Bachelor nation going from Katie’s season directly into BIP with no break in between to having only a 2 week break before watching Michelle’ By Anastasia • Oct 20, 2021 12:11 pm
Equality Issues Intro for October 19, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood premiere of Marvel’s Eternals was last night – one of the biggest premieres we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic – and we’ll have coverage of that throughout the morning but let’s kick it off with Kumail Nanjiani who got an assist from By Lainey • Oct 19, 2021 09:38 am
Top Reads Netflix in the Battle of The Closer Warning: This article mentions transphobia and references transphobic comments. Just over a week ago, Sarah wrote about Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix Comedy Special, The Closer. Spoiler alert, it’s awful. I powered through ⅔ of it for this article, and I wanted to throw up the entire time. I ended By Prem • Oct 18, 2021 01:20 pm
Douchebags Dave Chappelle’s new special is unwatchable I have long been a fan of Dave Chappelle, but I could not make it even fifteen minutes into his new standup special, The Closer, his sixth and final special as part of his gargantuan Netflix deal. He’s always had his blind spots, but when he’s on, he’ By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 10:22 am
TV Updates Squid Game: The Tonight Show and the Subtitle Debate Squid Game is the biggest show in the world, a surprise hit for Netflix, and an even bigger win for the South Korean entertainment system. For many, this is their introduction to the storytelling and production value happening in SK which is just as sophisticated as what they’re doing By Lainey • Oct 07, 2021 03:36 pm
