TV Updates Danai Gurira runs the show Danai Gurira joined The Walking Dead in its third season, before its particular brand of brutality grew tiresome. In the time since she joined the show, The Walking Dead’s popularity has peaked and waned, she’s gone on to be a fan-favorite character in the MCU, and she’s By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 02:59 pm
Gorgessity Rihanna: “tell your friends to pull up” Rihanna was honoured with the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend for philanthropic and social justice efforts. She made her speech all about what others are doing and what others can do – and the way she put it, it’s not complicated. “Tell your friends to By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 12:22 pm
Equality Issues Intro for February 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’ve had a bad cold for a week now and maybe it’s because I’m “vulnerable”, as Duana described it, but tears sprung to my eyes on Friday when I saw that Ali Wong had interviewed Lana Condor for Interview. It’s not just because they By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 09:00 am
Douchebags Like Trump has even seen Parasite Last night, Donald Trump held one of his creepy f-cking rallies in Colorado. During his speech, he took a shot at the Oscars and Parasite because, you know, they gave the top prize to a movie not in English, made by furriners, and that you have to READ on top By Sarah • Feb 21, 2020 11:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was great seeing Sinead Burke sitting front row at the Gucci show in Milan yesterday and wearing Gucci, obviously. Sinead was also all over London Fashion Week last week. Here she is hanging out with Victoria Beckham: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sinéad By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 09:35 am
Equality Issues Cannes has decided to try The Cannes Film Festival is just a few months away—Spike Lee was announced as the first black jury president last month—and the festival has just announced their selection committee which features four men, and five women, giving women the majority say in selection for the first time. Cannes By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:56 pm
Top Reads Natalie Portman responds to criticism We’ve been talking about Natalie Portman’s Oscar dress for four days now, and not necessarily in the way she intended it to be talked about. Duana wrote about it on Monday after the Oscars and appreciated the effort. Maria mentioned the controversy yesterday in Celebrity Social Media as By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews PSISLY: Are you ready to get your heart broken and put back together? As of this writing, it’s 1030am EST, so not all that deep in the day. And To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You, which dropped today on Netflix, is already trending in the #2 position. It would be #1 not for the biggest band in the world By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 11:17 am
Equality Issues Taika shares Taika Waititi is an Oscar winning screenwriter now, and his first official move as an Oscar winning screenwriter is to hire another writer to collaborate on Thor: Love and Thunder. Many auteurs would have you believe that filmmaking is a solitary craft and great films result from a single voice, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2020 01:30 pm
Aging Gorgessity Gal, Brie, & Sigourney: Oscars Superhero Sisterhood Points to the producers who put this grouping together; I don’t know which of these women was secured as a presenter first or last, and of course there don’t have to be obvious links between the celebrities who present an award – like, what’s the connection between Ray By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 12:59 pm
Equality Issues Joaquin Phoenix calls out #BAFTASoWhite Joaquin Phoenix is the undisputed Best Actor of the 2019/20 award season, cleaning up everywhere he goes, and the BAFTAs were no different. Since he is the undisputed champ, he actually prepared an acceptance speech in advance of his latest win. His Golden Globes speech was clearly unprepared, the By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 10:08 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 3, 2020 Dear Gossips, Was there any doubt that Jennifer Lopez and Shakira would deliver last night in Miami at the Super Bowl? Nobody’s ever accused either of coasting. And, frankly, women at their level, women of colour at their level, wouldn’t have gotten to that level had they coasted. By Lainey • Feb 03, 2020 09:10 am
Equality Issues Kumail goes for lunch, gets papped It’s a pretty standard occurrence in Los Angeles, right? Celebrities go out for lunch, they get papped. But not all celebrities. You have to be on the radar. The paps are there to take pictures that they can sell and certain celebrities sell more than others. There was a By Lainey • Jan 30, 2020 10:48 am
Maple Leaf Jodie and Joshua’s Canadian baby? Jodie Turner-Smith was in London last night for the premiere of Queen & Slim looking like a stone cold goddess in this dress. She was also interviewed for The Sunday Times (via PEOPLE) to promote the film and the main headline coming out of the piece is that she talked By Lainey • Jan 29, 2020 04:25 pm
Music Eminem and Grindr Last Thursday, Maria posted about the Dolly Parton challenge which like most challenges is just an excuse to shamelessly post more pictures of yourself. But in some cases, it was also the opportunity to adapt and modify the format. Like Eminem’s version: Did I do this right? pic.twitter. By Prem • Jan 29, 2020 10:34 am
Dumbass #RoseTicoDeservedBetter The last week of the year is a liminal space. It is the abandoned shopping mall of time: It once was, it is not yet. Nothing happens in the last week of the year, when post-holiday blues and pre-New Year’s Eve nerves set in. And everything happens in the By Sarah • Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
