Equality Issues Intro for July 27, 2015 Dear Gossips, At the time of this post, the New York Magazine website is down. They’ve tweeted that they’re experiencing technical difficulties and are trying to fix the problem. Maybe the problem is volume. Last night the magazine published its new cover story featuring 35 of Bill Cosby’ By Lainey • Jul 27, 2015 09:08 am
Equality Issues Amy Schumer’s brutal honesty is why she’s great We’ve seen the Star Wars-themed photoshoot already, and now GQ has released their cover profile of Amy Schumer for their comedy issue. They call her the “funniest, gutsiest comedian in America”, and the interview certainly backs up the gutsy claim. Interviewed while preparing for an HBO stand-up special, Schumer By Sarah • Jul 21, 2015 12:56 pm
Jock Smut Intro for July 13, 2015 Dear Gossips, Serena. The Serena Slam. It happened. She’s 33 years old and it happened …again! Which, as you know, is an extraordinary achievement when you’re 20 and an even more extraordinary achievement at 30+ in an individual sport. But she’s an extraordinary athlete. The most extraordinary By Lainey • Jul 13, 2015 08:11 am
Media Manipulation The Amy Schumer debate Amy Schumer is promoting her movie, Trainwreck, due in a couple weeks, which means she’s giving a lot of interviews and is very visible right now, which means we have a lot to talk about. Specifically, we have to have the sacred cow conversation again, because Schumer is being By Sarah • Jun 30, 2015 01:34 pm
Business of Hollywood Rose McGowan loses her agent Rose McGowan tweeted the other day about an audition and the suggested wardrobe. casting note that came w/script I got today. For real. name of male star rhymes with Madam Panhandler hahahaha I die pic.twitter.com/lCWGTV537t— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 18, 2015 She subsequently told Entertainment Weekly By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 03:51 pm
Equality Issues Intro for June 24, 2015 Dear Gossips, Channing Tatum covers the new issue of PEOPLE. Sexy, Sweet, Stripperific! That’s how the online headline reads. And then he goes on to talk about how much his wife and daughter mean to him; he also shares that his proudest moment in life was watching Jenna Dewan By Lainey • Jun 24, 2015 09:49 am
TV Updates Kerry as Anita Hill Check out Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the upcoming HBO biopic Confirmation about Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court senate hearings. This was almost 25 years ago. I was 17, in my last year of high school. It was all over the TV. It would be another year before I By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 12:48 pm
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Lawrence: not a skin and not a prim I’m still thinking about that THR article on Skin vs Prim yesterday. Click here for a refresher. Actresses were classified into two groups: Skins and Prims. The piece failed to point out that for the most part, the Skins are older, while a majority of the Prims they cited By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 12:20 pm
Amazingness Inside Out with Amy & Mindy Inside Out was beloved in Cannes. Like unanimously praised. Pixar has made a movie about what it’s like to be inside a young girl’s head. Pixar has made a movie about mental health. Pixar has made a movie that encourages young people to talk about their feelings. Pixar By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 11:26 am
Business of Hollywood Gwyneth: was a “prim”, now a “skin” Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a party for Windsor Smith yesterday in LA. It looks like there were a lot of upper classy people there. Click here to see more guest photos. Almost no front page names other than G but you can tell this is a scene where a certain social By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 04:23 pm
Media Manipulation A Tale of Two Blondes TIME Magazine has two new interviews up, one with Gwyneth Paltrow and one with Blake Lively, for its new issue about the growing phenomena of actresses with lifestyle businesses. Obviously, this is something that we’ve talked a lot about here with Goop, Preserve, The Honest Co., Draper James and By Maria • Jun 05, 2015 03:09 pm
Douchebags Chris Brown’s idea of romantic Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran broke up 3 months ago, when she found out that another woman had his baby after a one night stand which… really? Like is safe sex extinct now? We couldn’t get away from that message when I was a teenager growing up in the By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 5, 2015 Dear Gossips, Melissa McCarthy’s Spy opens this weekend. So far, the reviews are excellent. At post time, Spy is rated 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is expected to take the box office. That’s amazing and it’s important. Because finally Melissa McCarthy is in a feature that’ By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Britney Ninja Turtle Oh look. It’s Megan Fox on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in New York and you’re thinking of Britney Spears. Me, I’m thinking of Michael Bay. And whether or not this is the Michael Bay Women’s Team uniform. After all, this is a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2015 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Lady Ghostbusters are the only interesting kind of Ghostbusters So says Paul Feig, the director of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot. In an interview with AlloCine while promoting Spy, Feig said the only way he can see to remake Ghostbusters is to reimagine it with women. I love that he says this, that the only way it makes sense to By Sarah • Jun 02, 2015 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews After-bro: The Entourage movie I read a great article over at Slate this weekend: How Entourage went from critical darling to cultural punching bag. Basically we’ve changed since Entourage first launched. We’ve asked for more in the way women are represented, not just in relationship to men, but in the way we By Lainey • Jun 02, 2015 10:59 am
