Equality Issues Jessica Chastain’s bold position A few days ago, Jessica Chastain retweeted an article outlining past allegations of sexual assault against director Bryan Singer. She said, “Let us not forget.” (I don’t know about you, but the day the Weinstein Scandal broke, I thought—how long before we get to Bryan Singer?) That’s By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 10:48 am
Top Reads Mimi too? Earlier this week, it was announced that Stella Bulochnikov, who’s been Mariah Carey’s manager for a couple of years now, was stepping down from the “day-to-day management” of Mimi’s career. So they broke up. Two days later, TMZ reports that Mimi’s being accused of sexual harassment By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 10:10 am
Douchebags Chuck Bass too? Like I said yesterday, at this point we need a Daily Sexual Harassment/Abuse/Assault Roundup. Some of the offenders are very powerful men. Some of them are moderately powerful men. Others are relatively powerful. And even B/C list stars are predators. Not all men, sure. But, at the By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 11:36 am
Dumbass Alec Baldwin throws a fit in the Twitter sandbox Ugh. That’s how I feel having to talk about Alec Baldwin today. It’s just a big bag of ugh. I’m not referring to his social media gender reveal (Alec, at 59, is expecting his 5th child, his fourth with Hilaria. He’s going to have 4 children By Maria • Nov 07, 2017 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck wants to be “part of the solution” Sarah just posted about the imminent release of Justice League and how it might do at the box office after Thor just became everyone’s favourite Avenger. Justice League, of course, is DC’s version of the Avengers. And Batman is the sort of leader of the Justice League. At By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 10:03 am
Douchebags Leo is being careful The NY Daily News posted a really interesting article about Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday. Leo was at a Halloween party in New York earlier this week. Here’s how it went down according to the NY Daily News source: Partygoers at a lower Manhattan Halloween bash were left buzzing about the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 10:18 am
Douchebags Brett Ratner too Who’s Next? There’s been a new “who” almost every week, sometimes every day, coming out of Hollywood. Who’s the Next Harasser/Abuser? By the time Who’s Next is over, who’ll be left standing in Hollywood? Earlier this week it was Kevin Spacey joining Harvey Weinstein, By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 11:28 am
Equality Issues Intro for October 30, 2017 Dear Gossips, Janet Jackson is currently on tour. Last week she performed in Chicago. And on Friday, accompanied by her brother Randy, she spent the day in Gary, Indiana where, of course, the Jacksons grew up. They visited their childhood home and she and Randy also stopped by Roosevelt High By Lainey • Oct 30, 2017 08:37 am
Top Reads Gab and Lena get real Lena Dunham makes a point to let us know that she and Gabrielle Union are close enough that she calls her “Gab” in a new piece for Lenny Letter. I can’t decide if this tidbit is annoying or charming. That’s how I feel about Lena Dunham most days. By Kathleen • Oct 24, 2017 08:59 am
Gross Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl It’s official. Justin Timberlake will headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. I’ve written about this already – twice. I wrote about it when the rumours first started back in August and again a month later when it was reported that JT was in final negotiations. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 09:27 am
Gross Intro for October 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, The only time I’ve ever written about James Toback was almost exactly 4 years ago, when he was promoting Seduced & Abandoned, and he decided to claim credit for “inventing” Robert Downey Jr. He also insisted that RDJ was a lot less interesting since getting clean and By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 08:30 am
Top Reads Lupita too Lupita Nyong’o has a Harvey Weinstein story too. She shared with the New York Times yesterday. As gross usual, there was a massage request. It did not happen at a hotel. Instead, Harvey invited Lupita to his home, and while his children were in another room watching a movie, By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:25 am
Equality Issues Another domino falls So far the list of People Whose Careers Are Cancelled includes Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price. In the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there has been much talk but not a huge amount of tangible action. However, signaling the reach of this thing is still growing, another By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 09:08 am
Equality Issues Kevin Smith’s decency In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, a lot of celebrities have been asked to comment on the situation. Many women have come out and spoken about their experience(s) with Weinstein, or men just like him, and some men, like Terry Crews, have shed light on how widespread By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 09:12 am
Equality Issues I Feel Pity: Mayim Bialik’s “Feminism” Hurts Raise your hand if Blossom broke your heart a bit this week. For a specific subset of women who make up the Oregon Trail Generation or whatever we’re being called these days, Blossom (and Mayim Bialik) was it, in terms of sassy-but-still-basically-rule-abiding role models who’d read as many By Duana • Oct 17, 2017 04:03 pm
BFFs Kristen Stewart: on many levels Last Friday Variety hosted a Power Of Women luncheon in Hollywood. Last night it was the ELLE Women In Hollywood event. The universe’s sense of timing sometimes can’t be explained. The ELLE event was attended by some of the most successful actresses in the business, many of them By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 02:45 pm
