Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel Week Monkey Man opens on Friday, and I am VERY ready for this movie. Dev Patel was on The Today Show on Friday talking it up, and I bring this up for two very specific reasons: 1. General Handsomeness 2. He talks about wanting to see himself and his culture reflected By Sarah • Apr 01, 2024 12:35 pm
Style The Power Stylists 2024 The Hollywood Reporter just dropped its annual Power Stylists issue for this year, now that award season is over. Colman Domingo, with his stylists Wayman + Micah is on one of the covers and Colman, as you can see, has been crowned… AS HE SHOULD BE. What Colman served on every By Lainey • Mar 27, 2024 12:36 pm
Equality Issues Halle Berry's Unreasonable Conversation Superstar Halle Berry recently shared how she discovered she had entered into perimenopause during a conversation with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the fourth annual “Day of Unreasonable Conversation”. Halle described her doctor taking her symptoms as an indication she had herpes and flat out told her she’d By Stephanie • Mar 27, 2024 10:36 am
Music Beyoncé counts down I am going to resist the urge to punctuate every sentence in this post with an exclamation mark… but COWBOY CARTER is ten days away. The Queen, Beyoncé, is counting down to act ii with an epic album cover reveal… And we’re talking about Beyoncé here, so the standard By Lainey • Mar 19, 2024 02:31 pm
Equality Issues Regina King's reflections In an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, Regina King for the first time is talking about the loss of her 26-year-old son, Ian, who died by suicide in January 2022. Regina reflects on the impact of his death and describes the series of emotions she’s By Stephanie • Mar 15, 2024 10:09 am
TV Updates Lily, onward and upward Awards season is over, and with it, the end of Lily Gladstone’s campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon. I have a feeling this Best Actress result will be litigated for a while, but Lily Gladstone’s career is already moving on. She is booked, she is busy, she By Sarah • Mar 12, 2024 02:19 pm
Equality Issues What Rita, Mary J, and Wendy have in common Rita Moreno spoke at a panel in New York this week and reflected on the “big, deep lesson” she learned in her marriage to a “very controlling” Leonard Gordon and spilled some tea on her relationship with Marlon Brando. “Things began to get very tense. And if it were not By Stephanie • Mar 08, 2024 01:25 pm
Royals Meghan Markle funded a study about TV moms Amidst all the strangeness and bad work going on with the British royal family, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continue to build their life away from (official) royalty. After ending their Spotify deal last year, Duchess Meghan has signed on to produce podcasts with Lemonada Media, a women-centric business and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2024 10:48 am
TV Updates Dr. Phil is inflicting Chris Harrison on us again Just three years after his long stint as the host of ABC’s The Bachelor ended, Chris Harrison is coming back to TV. After the network cut ties with him over a problematic podcast episode, which Anastasia wrote about here, he and his wife Lauren Zima are getting not one By Stephanie • Mar 07, 2024 03:39 pm
TV Updates Jerrod Carmichael's quest for love and acceptance In a new teaser for a ground-breaking HBO unscripted series starring Jerrod Carmichael, the Black comedian is on a “tumultuous quest for love, sex and truth” and can be seen navigating through complicated dynamics with his family, mostly surrounding his decision to come out as gay. The reason the show, By Stephanie • Mar 07, 2024 01:46 pm
Dumbass “I Wish She Stopped Right There”: The Gwyneth Paltrow Story Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow attended The MAKERS Conference, and during a chat with Dr. Ella Bell, she spoke about the differences she sees when it comes to “incredible intrinsic self-honouring” and the sense of community that she sees existing between her Black women friends versus what she sees with her By Stephanie • Mar 04, 2024 01:13 pm
Style Barry by Burberry and Emerald Burberry was the big event at London Fashion Week last night and Barry Keoghan was among the celebrities in attendance for the presentation kitted out, naturally, in a beige Burberry set with a white turtleneck – a short king claiming his fashion space in clothes that are typically sent down the By Lainey • Feb 20, 2024 11:52 am
Music That’s Beyoncé’s best friend Last night was the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, which stars Kelly Rowland. Beyoncé went to the premiere to support her, along with Jay Z, Miss Tina, and Angie Beyince. Bey and Jay skipped the red carpet, but Queen Bey still let her support of her best friend By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew turns up for Rolling Stone Kristen Stewart was trending yesterday after a new cover profile with Rolling Stone dropped, featuring a sexy, provocative photoshoot in which KStew poses in underwear, a jock strap, and leans hard into butch-bordering-on-androgynous style. Of the photoshoot and profile, she said: “If I go through the entire Twilight series without By Sarah • Feb 15, 2024 11:36 am
Maple Leaf Intro for February 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I interviewed Camille Dundas for ETALK. Camille is a public speaking and corporate diversity consultant, a television producer, a writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ByBlacks.com, an award-winning online magazine covering stories of interest to the Black Canadian community, spotlighting the efforts and By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 10:04 am
Music Intro for February 14, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Earned all this money, but they never take the country out me” – I know I don’t have to tell you who said that and when and where she did it. And now we know that that was a promise. Eight years later Beyoncé is about to release By Lainey • Feb 14, 2024 10:03 am
