Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations will be announced this morning and we’ll have more on which films and series and performers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is recognising this year. Because it’s the HFPA though… expect some randomness and maybe (probably?) a little foolery. Like if Michaela By Lainey • Feb 03, 2021 08:57 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for January 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, The pandemic has disrupted so many regular features of award season – the screenings, the parties, the red carpets, and perhaps even the major award shows themselves. The Independent Spirit Award nominations are happening today. Typically the Spirit Awards are held on Saturday, the day before Oscar Sunday, in By Lainey • Jan 26, 2021 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Felicity Jones in The Midnight Sky George Clooney’s latest feature film is The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney stars as Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist at an Arctic outpost when some cataclysmic event occurs which forces everyone to evacuate the facility. It is hinted at being nuclear in By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 01:50 pm
Xenu Smut George & Tom: The Chairman Supports Captain Hollywood The biggest celebrity headline of the week so far has been the leaked audio of Tom Cruise popping off at crew members on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 in London for violating social distancing protocols. Yesterday in my post about the situation, I wrote that this is the best By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 10:46 am
Books Clooney + Affleck v 2.0 George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on Argo – they co-produced, along with Grant Heslov, George’s producing partner, and Ben starred and directed, and the film went on to win Best Picture. That was almost ten years ago. And now they’re teaming up again. Deadline reported yesterday that By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 11:35 am
Baby and Bump Obsession George Clooney and his Flowbee George Clooney was on CBS Sunday Morning a few days ago and of all the things he said, the one revelation that went viral was that he wasn’t bothered about the hair situation in lockdown because for years he’s been cutting his own hair with a Flowbee: Actor/ By Lainey • Dec 03, 2020 01:14 pm
Business of Hollywood George Clooney: The Dad on Zoom With Bags of Money This is the 25th anniversary of GQ’s Men of the Year issue. As usual, there are several covers. George Clooney has been named the magazine’s Icon of the Year. His new film, The Midnight Sky, is coming out soon. It’s good timing for him. And it’s By Lainey • Nov 17, 2020 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney’s big Oscar beard Netflix is basically the only studio that has managed to get movies out with any consistency this year, and their train keeps rolling with the first trailer for George Clooney’s new sci-fi film, The Midnight Sky. It’s an end-of-the-world/space movie, with Clooney playing a scientist on Earth By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney: Home for the Election George Clooney has kept a very low profile in 2020. He has both the resources and the inclination to not be in our faces when he doesn’t want to or when he knows he’s not wanted. And he and Amal have a large property in England where they By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and The Notebook George Clooney’s next film, which he directed, called The Midnight Sky, will be available on Netflix in December. He did a virtual talk this weekend at the BFI London Film Festival about his career and his thoughts on the upcoming US election and about shooting the movie. Originally the By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 10:56 am
Top Reads Ghislaine Maxwell bragged about George Clooney Court documents from the Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre defamation lawsuit were recently released, including a manuscript from a book that Virginia wrote about how she was allegedly abused by Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew’s dead rapist pedophile friend. In the book, Virginia recalls that Ghislaine used By Lainey • Aug 11, 2020 10:36 am
BFFs “A System to Protect the Monarchy” Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand comes out tomorrow and more and more of the book’s revelations are being released as media outlets get access to the book. Page Six reports that according to the authors, a summit took place in 2019 to talk about the growing By Lainey • Aug 10, 2020 10:31 am
TV Updates Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and the End of An Era We’re doing more than one post today about the Golden Globe nominations but let’s start with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because this is their event. This is a group of 90 or so international journalists known for making odd choices – and not always bad. In the television By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 10:45 am
George Clooney George and Brie make coffee George Clooney had a relatively quiet summer after promoting Catch-22. Of course he and Amal spent the summer in Lake Como and they entertained their high profile friends, including Barack and Michelle Obama, but for the most part, he was off-radar. During that time their twins celebrated their second birthday. By Lainey • Sep 25, 2019 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was announced earlier this week that George Clooney will direct and star in the film adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s book, Good Morning, Midnight … for Netflix. George will play a scientist stationed in the Arctic trying to make contact with an astronaut who’s trying to get By Lainey • Jun 27, 2019 09:51 am
BFFs The Clooneys’ presidential weekend Amal and George Clooney summer in Lake Como, Italy, where they famously have a villa. I say famous because they are famous and their friends are famous and they’re always hosting famous people. George has been doing this for a long time – he sounds like an outstanding, master class By Lainey • Jun 21, 2019 11:16 am
