Equality Issues Intro for May 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Bela, Eloise, Lucia, and Mila are known as The Linda Lindas, and yesterday they went viral. If you’ve already seen this video, you know what a fist-pumper it is. And if you haven’t, well, this is the perfect start to the weekend, which happens to be By Lainey • May 21, 2021 09:31 am
TV Updates Billy Porter Shares HIV-Positive Status Billy Porter has opened up about a secret he’s been keeping from almost everyone in his life for the last 14 years. In 2007, he was diagnosed HIV-positive. He’s telling his story for the first time to The Hollywood Reporter because he wants everyone to know, “This is By Cody • May 20, 2021 10:04 am
Style Issa Rae: How to Dress While Building an Empire Issa Rae rarely turns a bad look. She’s styled for the June issue of Vanity Fair by Shiona Turini, the costume designer on Insecure, Issa’s HBO show in which she appears equality well dressed — all the time. I’m not crazy about the belt she’s wearing on By Cody • May 19, 2021 03:09 pm
TV Updates Get to know Anne Boleyn with Jodie Turner-Smith On Friday, Jodie Turner-Smith dropped a teaser for Anne Boleyn on her Instagram. The lighting continues to be bad, but besides that, the teaser shows us brief hits of Anne Boleyn as the world starts to close in around her, with no sons delivered to Henry VIII and a venomous By Sarah • May 17, 2021 12:54 pm
Equality Issues Intro for May 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, The MTV Movie and TV Awards happened last night. And the winner for Best Movie… To All The Boys: Always and Forever. This is important. This is a movie about an Asian American young woman starring an Asian American young woman, which sounds redundant because why wouldn’t By Lainey • May 17, 2021 08:52 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2021 this year and the list includes Tina Turner. Tina was previously inducted in 1992 but not as a solo artist. So this honour represents her career from 1976 and onward, after her divorce. In those early By Lainey • May 14, 2021 09:28 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, It started when I was a kid, and continued into my teens – I used to pinch the end of my nose with my third finger and my thumb, then push the tip up with my index. Because in all the books I’d read with descriptions of the By Lainey • May 12, 2021 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Styles: The Kissing Cop That title is cheesy as f-ck and I’m sorry but I couldn’t help it because Harry Styles is playing a cop in a new movie called My Policeman and he was photographed kissing Emma Corrin on set this week. You can see those photos here. This is why By Lainey • May 05, 2021 12:19 pm
TV Updates Ewan McGregor is Halston for the world Last week we got a cover profile of Ewan McGregor in advance of his new Netflix series Halston, about the 1970s fashion designer-icon. Now we have a trailer to give us a taste of McGregor as Halston. Look, he seems fantastic. He’s a great actor, the quality of the By Sarah • May 04, 2021 12:46 pm
Equality Issues Ewan McGregor avoids the issue Ewan McGregor covers The Hollywood Reporter to promote his upcoming television projects, Obi-Wan and Halston. Of course, you have to talk about Obi-wan, as McGregor prepares to reprise the role over 20 years after his debut in The Phantom Menace. I’m on board! I was only ever interested in By Sarah • Apr 29, 2021 09:50 am
Equality Issues Intro for April 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Elliot Page’s interview with Oprah will air tomorrow on Apple TV+. One of the reasons Elliot decided to talk to Oprah is because it’s an increasingly dangerous time for the trans community right now. Laws are being passed that not only restrict their rights but lives By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 09:20 am
Equality Issues Intro for April 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, In my post about Daniel Kaluuya being mistaken for Leslie Odom Jr yesterday in the Oscars virtual press room, I wrote that the journalist who asked him the question was repping the Sunday Times in the UK which last week was called out for publishing a piece seemingly By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 10:01 am
Oscars 2021 Daniel Kaluuya, a Bad Question, and a Royal Connection Oscar night was a great night for Daniel Kaluuya. He won an Oscar for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah, people LOVED his acceptance speech, and there was a party afterwards and I hope he had a great time and didn’t think much about what we’re By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 12:24 pm
Top Reads Gemma Chan calls out The Sunday Times Back on Monday, in my post about Prince Philip’s funeral, I ended it with a mention of an article on the front page of The Sunday Times that included a passage referencing Prince Philip’s comment about Asian people having “slitty eyes”. Here’s the passage in question: This By Lainey • Apr 21, 2021 12:03 pm
Equality Issues What is the Future of the Golden Globes? Here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organisation that oversees the Golden Globes, one of the most high profile and popular award shows of the season. The HFPA is a group of between 80-90 journalists from around the world who By Lainey • Apr 21, 2021 11:06 am
Equality Issues Intro for April 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, This is the tweet that I’ve been thinking about since Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd yesterday: https://twitter.com/britrican/status/1384613052507594754 The immediate reaction from many people in the Black community was relief. But that relief was preceded by anxiety and a By Lainey • Apr 21, 2021 10:00 am
