Top Reads Natalie Portman: “gossip well” Natalie Portman was honoured at Variety’s Power of Women event last Friday alongside Tiffany Haddish, Emma Gonzalez, Regina King, and Lena Waithe. She said something during her remarks that I really appreciate and Natalie Portman hasn’t, in the past, exactly been an all-star on this site. That By Lainey • Oct 17, 2018 11:53 am
Business of Hollywood Shonda brags Shonda Rhimes is great at bragging. Shonda brags like she writes: confidently, bravely and exceptionally well. When Shonda brags, I cheer. I love when she declares that her “pen has power” and proudly accepts her role as the woman who owns Thursday nights. She’s a black woman who became By Kathleen • Oct 16, 2018 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Wakanda are back I think about the Black Panther press tour a lot. Mostly, I think about how much I miss it and how much joy it brought into my life. Well, awards season is coming, and the Black Panther press tour is getting a second leg. Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, and Lupita By Kathleen • Oct 11, 2018 11:27 am
Music Intro for October 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, BTS performed in London at the O2 for the first time on Tuesday, the first of two sold out shows. Two hours before it started, it was announced that Jungkook (my fave) was injured after sound-check and would not be able to participate in choreography but that By Lainey • Oct 11, 2018 08:37 am
Douchebags Busy Philipps and the expendability of women Busy Philipps has a book coming out later this month called This Will Only Hurt a Little. In a leaked excerpt she details a Freaks and Geeks on-set confrontation with James Franco in which he shoved her so forcefully she fell and had the wind knocked out of her. By Sarah • Oct 09, 2018 03:07 pm
Equality Issues Intro for October 9, 2018 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you in Canada returning from Thanksgiving weekend. Let’s start today by acknowledging two women in entertainment who were the highlights in what could have been a total bummer weekend for women. Awkwafina hosted Saturday Night Live, the first Asian woman to host By Lainey • Oct 09, 2018 09:01 am
Gorgessity Lady Gaga: billion-dollar movie star? Before we get to that… As we’ve seen, Warner Bros is positioning A Star is Born for a run at the Oscars. In several categories. Given the reception the film has received, the studio is obviously also hoping for the money. To make money, you want to attract the By Lainey • Oct 05, 2018 11:52 am
Quiveration Michael B Jordan in Vanity Fair After reading the opening sequence of Michael Bae Jordan’s Vanity Fair cover, which reads like a scene from the OG Fast and the Furious and succeeds in turning me on, I looked up Joe Hagan, the writer of said piece. He’s white. Maybe that shouldn’t matter. In By Kathleen • Oct 03, 2018 02:38 pm
Top Reads Intro for September 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, She brought the science yesterday. She was authoritative, she was firm. But she did not drop the science with a fist in the air, accompanied by fire and brimstone, even though she would have certainly been entitled to it, entitled to whatever manifestation of rage and disappointment that By Lainey • Sep 28, 2018 09:56 am
Dumbass Jared Leto, class warrior In the last couple of years, there’s been an increase in the conversations about the treatment of women in Hollywood, particularly around wage inequality and of course #MeToo. Jared Leto also has an an important topic to bring up: women who make too much money for his comfort level. By Maria • Sep 19, 2018 10:10 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 17, 2018 Dear Gossips, September is World Alzheimer’s Month. Did you know that September is also, unofficially, Feel Bad for Sexual Harasser’s Month? This is not a f-cking joke. Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and New York Magazine have all published features by or about By Lainey • Sep 17, 2018 08:56 am
Models Rihanna x Fenty x NYFW Yesterday Lainey wrote that New York Fashion Week “begins and ends with Rihanna”. Rihanna debuted her new Savage x Fenty lingerie line and she did not disappoint. It wasn’t your typical runway show. Rihanna reinvented what a lingerie runway show could look like. The Savage x Fenty show was By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 01:07 pm
Royals Prince William’s Asian mix-up Prince William attended the opening of Japan House London today, the new cultural centre providing visitors an “experience of the best and latest from Japan”. I just want to establish our location, set the scene. And now that you’re there, watch this: Prince William was in great form at By Lainey • Sep 13, 2018 10:44 am
Sports Naomi Osaka’s moment + MBJ There has been a lot written about what Naomi Osaka deserved during her first grand slam win. She did not deserve to have her moment at the US Open overshadowed by an umpire’s ego or by factors beyond her control that have nothing to do with the talent she By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 10:31 am
Douchebags Intro for September 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, As we have learned over the last few months, Les Moonves has a long history of sexual harassment. Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Les Moonves’s prolific and extensive abuse of power has resulted in additional investigation and analysis by other media outlets into how he was insulated By Lainey • Sep 13, 2018 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
