Top Reads Jennifer Hudson marched “Let them lead the way.” It feels very contrived and clichéd to quote Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love of All at a time like this but I saw a few “Children Are Our Future” signs at the March for Our Lives protests and since then, I haven’t been able By Kathleen • Mar 26, 2018 10:41 am
Music Cardi B and #MeToo in hip-hop Cardi B does not fit the mold of the “perfect victim.” The “perfect victim” is not an ex-stripper. She’s not a woman of colour. She doesn’t dress the way Cardi B dresses or talks the way Cardi B talks. We’ve seen it time and time again in By Kathleen • Mar 21, 2018 10:36 am
Style The Power Stylists 2018 On the latest episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I talk about Hollywood style and the business behind celebrity style strategy. The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Power Stylists list is mentioned several times. THR released its 2018 Power Stylists list yesterday and there was a party last night to By Lainey • Mar 21, 2018 10:06 am
Sports Serena owns the tournament Serena Williams will play Naomi Osaka in the first round of the Miami Open tomorrow. It’s a tough draw. Serena is unseeded and Naomi just won her first tournament at Indian Wells, which was Serena’s first tournament back since having her baby. This is an exciting moment. Because By Lainey • Mar 20, 2018 10:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina and kids see Love, Simon Angelina Jolie took her kids to the movies over the weekend. Originally, it was reported that Angie, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne went to see Tomb Raider. That would have been a nice story – “Angelina Passes the Torch to Alicia Vikander”! Or “Angelina Approves!” It’s the easy story. The By Kathleen • Mar 20, 2018 09:52 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Blue & Beyoncé in gold Gloria Carter, Jay-Z’s ma, and Beyoncé were honoured on Saturday at the Wearable Art Gala presented by the WACO Theater Center and hosted by Richard Lawson, the founder, and Miss Tina, the creator of greatness. The theme of the night was From WACO to Wakanda. So you can imagine By Lainey • Mar 19, 2018 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay is already moving on It was everyone’s low-key worry, right? That after A Wrinkle in Time merely whelmed, Ava DuVernay would not get the same second (third, fourth, fifth) chance that her white male peers get to go on and make another blockbuster, like, say, Zack Snyder who made a divisive Superman movie By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 03:21 pm
Top Reads JLO’s affirmations Jennifer Lopez covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. And I like the cover and here’s what Marilyn Denis pointed out to me this morning – you can see the lines on her neck. They didn’t brush them out. Why should they? The lines don’t look bad. By Lainey • Mar 16, 2018 03:04 pm
Aging Gorgessity This Hot Bitch in a rom-com This Hot Bitch is what I’ve been calling Sharon Stone, for years now. And now she’s 60 years old, just turned on March 10th. Sharon has a new movie coming out – it’s called All I Wish. It’s a rom-com. She does NOT play the mother of By Lainey • Mar 14, 2018 11:51 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Have you read Shia LaBeouf’s new Esquire interview yet? The highlight of the piece is probably what he says about Kanye West taking his clothes. Which is why Kanye has been seen in Shia’s clothes. Shia is contrite. Or, depending on how you look at it, By Lainey • Mar 14, 2018 09:13 am
Business of Hollywood Matt and Ben join the inclusion club I guess better late than never. The first person to publicly respond to Frances McDormand’s call for the inclusion rider was Michael B. Jordan. Next to the party are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, through their Pearl Street production shingle. Okay. Fine. If they want to be productive allies By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 03:14 pm
Equality Issues MOST BAE Jordan I can only assume Kathleen has fallen down a well and is incapacitated at the moment because Lainey assigned me a Michael B. Jordan story in which her Forever Bae MBJ is being the MOST BAE. Remember Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech in which she shouted out inclusion riders and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 11:01 am
TV Updates Silicon Valley has a gender problem and no one misses TJ Miller That’s the takeaway from The Hollywood Reporter’s cover profile of Silicon Valley, ahead of the show’s fifth season launch. TJ Miller, of course, got caught up in Hollywood’s sex pest infestation, but that’s not why he left Silicon Valley. According to Miller, he left as By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Wiig Kristen Wiig is apparently in talks to play the villain in Wonder Woman 2, which is surprising. Not that they’re casting—the movie films later this year, so it’s casting season—but that they’re talking to Kristen Wiig! If you asked me to guess who would be By Sarah • Mar 01, 2018 10:54 am
Top Reads Barbra Streisand and the wrong headline Duana and I won’t be able to record a new episode of Show Your Work on Friday because we are travelling. If we were able to do it though, I’m pretty sure we’d be talking about Barbra Streisand’s new interview with Variety, published just ahead of By Lainey • Feb 28, 2018 11:51 am
Equality Issues Jameela Jamil’s Instagram Outrage As we discussed recently on Show Your Work, there are lots of reasons to be fascinated by The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil. Mostly, I’m amazed at how different she is from every other first-time-on-a-surprise-hit-network-show star. Obviously, she’s 5’11 (hence the descriptions of her character, Tahani Al-Jamil, By Duana • Feb 26, 2018 02:31 pm
