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 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 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 By Sarah • Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Leading up to Christmas, the predominant headline about Little Women was that they were having a hard time getting men to come to the screenings which may have been why the film was largely ignored by the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. So the box office By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 09:37 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Best Of The Globes: Michelle Williams’ Acceptance Speech Michelle Williams ruined my plans. I listened to a great podcast with Busy Philipps the other day, and knowing she’s always Michelle Williams’ date to awards shows, I really wanted to write about some of the ways Busy described her on the podcast (which were also in her book, By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 01:07 pm
Music Taylor Swift: the “Artist of the Decade” is 30 Today is Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday. I can’t believe it’s gone by so fast. I feel like it was just two years ago when all that sh-t went down between her and Kanye West at the MTV VMAs. We’ll come back to Taylor’s big By Lainey • Dec 13, 2019 11:29 am
