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
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher worships at the altar of Mank and Welles David Fincher’s latest film is for Netflix, as is becoming the way for top-tier directors who can’t get the funding they want from traditional studios. Titled Mank, it is a biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who co-wrote Citizen Kane, among other things (including an uncredited draft of By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 03:03 pm
Top Reads Rihanna’s “Unintentional” Intention Rihanna was a major trending topic on Twitter on Sunday after the release of her Savage X Fenty Vol 2 fashion show on Prime Video. As you may have seen, people were really excited about the collection. So the fact that she was trending was not necessarily a surprise – she By Lainey • Oct 06, 2020 01:11 pm
TV Updates Megan Thee Stallion’s SNL Moment When it comes to musical guests on Saturday Night Live, the first performance is the most important. If I’m actually watching the show live, sometimes I’ve fallen asleep before the second performance even rolls around. So when Megan Thee Stallion had all eyes on her during her first By Cody • Oct 05, 2020 09:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for October 2, 2020 Dear Gossips, No matter where you look today, there will be one headline to rule them all. His downplaying of COVID-19, his refusal to take it seriously, to protect people, and his administration’s piss poor handling of the pandemic has caused chaos. Now his positive diagnosis will also cause By Lainey • Oct 02, 2020 09:11 am
Equality Issues Intro for October 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, On Saturday Joyce Echaquan, a mother of seven, went the hospital Joliette, Quebec because she was having stomach pains. She died there two days later, but not before she went live on Facebook to document how she was being neglected and abused by hospital staff. Joyce, an Indigenous By Lainey • Oct 01, 2020 09:48 am
