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 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 By Duana • Feb 26, 2018 02:31 pm
Business of Hollywood Mark Wahlberg on the “marketplace” A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million for reshoots on All The Money In The World while Michelle Williams got per diem. His initial salary for the film was $5 million and she was paid $650K. Eventually he and WME, the talent agency By Lainey • Feb 26, 2018 11:23 am
Style Paris & Cara? Paris Jackson was in London this week for Fashion Week and she was hanging out with Cara Delevingne. They were photographed leaving some parties and holding hands. At one point, according to the paps, Paris was seen wearing Cara’s clothing. Which is a thing that the kids do all By Lainey • Feb 21, 2018 12:18 pm
Equality Issues Kate & Frances The BAFTAs happened in London yesterday and, ahead of the event, since the BAFTAs are the first major red carpet after Time’s Up was launched, attendees were encouraged to wear black in support of the movement, just like they did at the Golden Globes. Leading up to the BAFTAs, By Lainey • Feb 19, 2018 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Audacity of Black Panther When I was three, my big brother Sam smacked me on the head with a mini model car. He was five and frustrated that I kept stealing his toys. The incident left a small but permanent scar in the middle of my forehead. Throughout my childhood and into my early By Kathleen • Feb 19, 2018 08:13 am
Equality Issues Gabrielle Union’s voice Gabrielle Union is more than her PTSD. She is so much more than what happened to her. She knows this. And yet she continues to speak about her trauma openly and often. In every feature on Gabrielle Union, the words “sexual assault” are used. With every interview, she is taking By Kathleen • Feb 16, 2018 02:15 pm
Douchebags Quentin Tarantino apology tour At the beginning of the week, we heard from Uma Thurman about her history of abuse by Harvey Weinstein and, let’s say, reckless endangerment from Quentin Tarantino. It was a perfect combination of a serial predator and tyrannical director combining forces to make sure no part of a woman’ By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars’ experience problem In the interest of building a self-perpetuating franchise machine, the Star Wars universe is expanding. Solo, the second of the “Star Wars Stories” is due this summer, and Rian Johnson is following up The Last Jedi by developing a new, unrelated trilogy for Lucasfilm. Yesterday, the latest element of By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 09:31 am
Top Reads Mathew Knowles on colorism Mathew Knowles is known mostly as our Queen Beyoncé’s Rogue Relative. When no one in Beyoncé’s camp is talking, Mathew talks. Mathew f-cks with Beyonce’s master plans and announces things before they should be announced. He’s also a philanderer who had secret love children while By Kathleen • Feb 06, 2018 09:22 am