Dumbass Justin Bieber Has a Category Question Well this, this is a RICH. The big news in entertainment today is the Grammy nominations. I posted some quick thoughts about it earlier, specifically focusing on the biggest snub of the year: The Weeknd’s album, After Hours, and all of its hits – there are several of them, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:04 pm
Equality Issues Marvel’s Indigenous Makeover It’s National Native American Heritage Month in the US, and to honor Native America, Marvel is fixing its face by issuing a special edition anthology written and illustrated by Indigenous artists, giving (a few of) their Native characters an Indigenous update. The book is called Marvel Voices: Indigenous Voices, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2020 12:52 pm
Music Megan Thee Stallion: Album Release Week It’s Men of the Year time over at GQ and Megan Thee Stallion has been crowned their Rapper of the Year after a calendar marked with career highs, like scoring her first (and second) Billboard #1 hits with “Savage (Remix)” and “WAP,” and personal lows, like being shot. The By Cody • Nov 18, 2020 11:51 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, There was a lot of excitement online yesterday when the new Gossip Girl cast was photographed filming on the steps of the Met as people are now trying to figure out who’s playing whom. Not that the characters will be the same – we’re not getting a By Lainey • Nov 12, 2020 08:52 am
Top Reads “Narrated by Blue Ivy Carter” If you’ve been on Twitter recently you might have noticed that The Blue Ivy Carter is trending. “Blue Ivy” is the trend, actually, and everyone on the planet knows who the words Blue + Ivy are referring to. There is only one: cultural icon, the first daughter of Her Majesty By Lainey • Nov 09, 2020 01:54 pm
Top Reads Sienna Talks Numbers Sienna Miller is the cover feature in the new issue of Porter to promote her upcoming film Wander Darkly and she has given her most Show Your Work interview to date, just a few weeks after she revealed that Chadwick Boseman had given up some of his salary to meet By Lainey • Nov 03, 2020 02:49 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé’s License to be Joyful With a palette featuring colours like azure, canary yellow, and coral lake, Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Drip 2 collection isn’t your typical fall/winter line. It’s fresh and fun — a much needed dose of joyfulness as we collectively crawl to the end of what’s been a year By Cody • Nov 03, 2020 10:24 am
Business of Hollywood Ellen Pompeo Wants SO MUCH Less By now it’s beside the point to give this piece a headline like “Ellen Pompeo Gives No F*cks” or “Is a Badass” or any other fawning hyperbole. We know that, we’ve talked about it a lot, and on the heels of Shonda Rhimes acknowledging, again, that she’ By Duana • Oct 30, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Sandra Oh and Awkwafina will star together in a new comedy for Netflix…which… YES! Sandra Oh will play a loner and Awkwafina her mess of a sister who decides to fix their broken relationship by helping her get on her favourite game By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 08:53 am
Gossip Nostalgia JLo: Hustler, Maid, Wedding Planner, and Boss Remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s, when the word “multihyphenate” became part of the cultural lexicon? It was often used to describe Jennifer Lopez. Of course she wasn’t the first multihyphenate or the last but in that moment, that was how we talked about her: dancer, singer, By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 12:45 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, In 2017, Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko was released to critical acclaim, regarded as one of the best books of the year. Roxane Gay named it her favourite book of 2017. In August 2018, after a bidding war involving multiple outlets, Apple acquired the rights to adapt the By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 09:00 am
TV Updates GLOW actresses asked for better representation, and we won’t see it GLOW’s sudden cancellation due to COVID-19 means we won’t get to see the natural conclusion of the show, but now we are learning what else the cancellation is costing us. It turns out that in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the early summer, a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 11:11 am
Top Reads Shonda Rhimes and the Disneyland Pass Shonda Rhimes’s new cover story in The Hollywood Reporter is so much Show Your Work and I’ve already pitched it to Duana for our next podcast episode because we could spend the whole time talking about what Shonda gives us here. But the detail in the piece that’ By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 10:26 am
Music BLACKPINK on Kimmel Part of my job as a television presenter is to interview celebrities – and for those of us in this profession, no matter what it is, be it news, or entertainment, or sports, we all have lazy fallbacks. A good example is the “how” question. You hear it ALL THE TIME. By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 03:01 pm
BFFs Iron Man and the Hulk try to rescue Star-Lord Yesterday in Celebrity Social Media, I pointed to a comment Katherine Schwarzenegger made about her husband consistently falling to the bottom of the Best Chris rankings. It’s not that serious and, as pointed out here, relitigating the order of the Chrises is more habit than debate. (Christine Baranski is By Maria • Oct 21, 2020 09:27 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend. But COVID numbers are surging in many parts of the country, including where I live, where a record number of new cases was confirmed yesterday and more restrictions are being put in place. I imagine that Thanksgiving or not, this is By Lainey • Oct 09, 2020 09:29 am
