Equality Issues Danai & Lupita make history After a successful run off-Broadway at the Public Theatre, Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed began previews on Broadway at the Golden Theatre last night. It’s the first time in Broadway history that the cast, director, and writer are all women. Eclipsed is the third play that Danai has written in By Lainey • Feb 24, 2016 08:58 am
Business of Hollywood Rooney Mara is wishy-washy on whitewashing It is not my preference to go after actors in the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite and the Hollywood diversity crisis. (Want to be depressed? Read this super sad and regressive study of diversity within industry ranks from the studio C-suites on down.) But actors are usually the most visible people connecting a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 01:12 pm
Music Taylor Swift on the First Monday In May It’s a little early to be talking about the MET Gala but we haven’t yet mentioned this year’s theme or the celebrity co-chairs. Joining Anna Wintour this year for the event will be Nicolas Ghesquiere, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive, and, yes, Taylor Swift. By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 10:13 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 15, 2016 Dear Gossips, Sports Illustrated announced this weekend that for the first time in the history of the Swimsuit Edition, there are three different covers featuring three different women: Ronda Rousey, Ashley Graham, and Hailey Clauson. This was revealed at some kind of live event, where all three women were brought By Lainey • Feb 15, 2016 06:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominees talk about the importance of their nominations Award season roundtables are all the rage now, and Vulture is getting in on the action with a roundtable discussion featuring eight Oscar nominees, including Alicia Vikander, Bryan Cranston, and screenwriting nominees Phyllis Nagy (Carol) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton). During the discussion, the importance of nominations came up, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 10:00 am
Music Beyonce’s Formation Everything that needed to be said has already been said – on Twitter, in the New York Times, and Sarah Silverman: Think about that. Releasing a brand new song just hours before performing live on that stage, the most watched televised event of the year, and it’s already familiar. And By Lainey • Feb 08, 2016 11:01 am
Blind Riddles Reese Witherspoon’s blind riddle As previously mentioned in the Kerry Washington post, Reese Witherspoon is featured in Entertainment Weekly’s Beyond Beautiful article and drops a blind riddle about opportunities for women in Hollywood: “About four years ago I got sent an awful, terrible script. And this male star was starring in it, and By Lainey • Feb 04, 2016 04:27 pm
Equality Issues Kerry Washington and the pressure to be extraordinary Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Elizabeth Banks, and Reese Witherspoon are featured together on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly for a discussion about women in entertainment – the pressures, the expectations, the inequality, their achievements, and their goals. The article is called Beyond Beautiful. In the highlighted excerpts, By Lainey • Feb 04, 2016 03:44 pm
Equality Issues Carol, Tina, Amy: the women who decide The SAG Awards were only two hours long. Did you recognise more of yourself and the people in your life in those two short hours than you have during an award show in a while? Sure, it wasn’t perfect. But before perfect, we have to get to better. One By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 08:45 am
Equality Issues SAG honours Orange Is The New Black The Screen Actors love Uzo Aduba. And they love Orange Is The New Black. As you saw on that stage and in these photos…the women! Women who may not have had a place in the industry before, celebrating the moment. OITNB is on Netflix. And, as we saw with By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 08:06 am
TV Updates The X-Files came back big The X-Files returned on Sunday night and even with a time delay thanks to championship football, the ratings were REALLY good. Even allowing for spillover football fans who tuned out within the first few minutes of the show, The X-Files pulled around 13.5 million viewers, which is great for By Sarah • Jan 26, 2016 11:58 am
Equality Issues Kristen Stewart on diversity and gender equality As expected, since the #OscarsSoWhite situation has dominated the entertainment landscape the last couple of weeks, the question is being asked of celebrities at Sundance. Here are Kristen Stewart’s thoughts on diversity in the industry: Nothing controversial there – an acknowledgement, a direction change, and then a quick exit. The By Lainey • Jan 26, 2016 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s finest hours Every time I turn on the TV there’s a commercial on for The Finest Hours. It’s about Pendleton rescue mission attempt in 1952. Two oil tankers were destroyed in bad weather and the Coast Guard, along with citizens on a surfboat, saved almost all the passengers. The film By Lainey • Jan 25, 2016 12:58 pm
TV Updates Shonda Rhimes deserves it After 10 days of #OscarsSoWhite, Shonda Rhimes accepted the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television on Saturday night from the Producers Guild Association. Have you read her book Year Of Yes yet? WHY NOT!?! We reviewed Year Of Yes on The Social last week. During the segment, I read By Lainey • Jan 25, 2016 09:42 am
BFFs The Privilege Games Leo’s reaction to Lady Gaga’s arm bump is now the 5th most viewed Vine ever. People love it, can’t get enough of it. It has spurred ridiculous stories of feuds and after-party confrontations (which high level gossips such as yourselves know are BS). Even though some (AHEM, By Maria • Jan 18, 2016 04:12 pm
Jock Smut Ciara’s anthem dress Ciara performed the US national anthem to kick off the 2016 College Football National Championship Game last night in Glendale, AZ. Alabama beat Clemson to take the title. But a lot of people are talking about Ciara’s dress. Specifically, during her performance, ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein tweeted this: Dear By Lainey • Jan 12, 2016 01:22 pm
