Style George and Amal: Back to Lake Como It used to be an annual tradition – if it’s summer, George Clooney would be in Italy, in Lake Como. And when he married Amal, in Italy, this tradition continued. That was paused, of course, last year because of COVID but, as we’ve seen, many celebrities are mostly back By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 09:57 am
BFFs Ben & George: Hugs All Around George Clooney has been in the Boston area the last several weeks directing The Tender Bar. Ben Affleck has been flying in to shoot mostly on weekdays and then seen back in LA on the weekends to be with his kids. Seems like Ben is now wrapped as the two By Lainey • Apr 15, 2021 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben, George, and the 70s Here are some new shots of Ben Affleck being directed by George Clooney on the Boston set of The Tender Bar. This is the first good look of Ben in costume from the era – JR Moehringer’s story takes place in the 70s and that’s definitely what we’re By Lainey • Mar 24, 2021 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George and Ben on set George Clooney is currently directing Ben Affleck in the film adaptation of JR Moehringer’s The Tender Bar in Boston which they are pretending to be Long Island, if they’re staying true to the story told in the book about Moehringer’s affection and attachment to the neighbourhood pub By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 03:37 pm
Business of Hollywood You had me at “Clooney-Roberts rom-com” Have you re-watched Ocean’s 11 recently? It TOTALLY holds up. Ocean’s 12 holds up, too. As far as I am concerned, there are only three Ocean’s movies, 8, 11, and 12, and I have re-watched them all (they were on Netflix, now they’re on By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s New Look Ben Affleck’s kept a pretty low profile this year, ever since it was confirmed in January that he and Ana de Armas are no longer dating. When it was first reported that the two had ended their relationship, the Love Story of 2020, there were some suggestions that it By Lainey • Feb 22, 2021 01:09 pm
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 By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 01:50 pm
Xenu 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 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 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
