Top Reads The War of the Weinsteins More and more people are coming forward to share their accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s predation. The Academy voted this weekend to cancel his membership and France is taking away his Legion of Honour and police in London and New York are investigating him for sexual abuse. Harvey meanwhile may By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 09:01 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan suspended by Twitter Rose McGowan, who just yesterday defended Lindsay Lohan after Lindsay defended Harvey Weinstein, urging people to consider that Lindsay was shaped by the system that we are all interrogating now, has been the most visible and vocal critic of Harvey Weinstein, not just over the last week, but over the By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 09:47 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Harvey Weinstein Edition Lainey and I both knew we would have a hard time holding on through the whole hiatus. We talked all the time about what we would talk about on the podcast when we brought it back. But we couldn’t have predicted it would be for this. As the Harvey By Duana • Oct 11, 2017 02:45 pm
Top Reads Rose McGowan calls out Ben Affleck Ben Affleck released a statement yesterday about the Harvey Weinstein situation. And then Rose McGowan called him a liar: @benaffleck “GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT” you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 11:18 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein and the internal investigation Every five minutes, that’s what it felt like yesterday with new Harvey Weinstein developments. There was, however, no update on that internal investigation. And while major celebrities are taking up most of the headlines, there’s also a lot of gossip that’s worth following up on where the By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 09:27 am
Douchebags Harvey Weinstein, The New Yorker, Gwyneth, and Angelina It’s relentless now, the volume of reporting that’s accumulating about Harvey Weinstein’s three-decade-long predation. As mentioned earlier, Ronan Farrow’s piece for The New Yorker was published today – and the details are horrific. There were lives that were ruined. Asia Argento has never been the same. And By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 04:20 pm
Ben Affleck Ben’s back in New York Ben Affleck was in New York this weekend to spend time with Lindsay Shookus. Apparently he was at SNL studios on Saturday night for the show but did not attend the after-party. SNL was criticised this weekend for not addressing the Harvey Weinstein situation. While Ben, who has worked closely By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 12:51 pm
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein & the Hollywood Hierarchy Harvey Weinstein was fired by The Weinstein Company, his own company, on Sunday. Before his termination, he sent a letter to other powerful Hollywood executives, asking for their support. According to The Hollywood Reporter the recipients of his memo included David Zaslav, Discovery Networks CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 10:07 am
Top Reads The allegations against Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein is sorry. Harvey Weinstein is also suing The New York Times for their story published yesterday, detailing “decades of sexual harassment accusations” against him. Can you truly take responsibility while beginning litigation against the newspaper that exposed your misconduct? Six months ago, back in April, the NY Times By Lainey • Oct 06, 2017 09:34 am
Harvey Weinstein Intro for October 5, 2017 Dear Gossips, Get ready for it. There’s a big story that might be breaking soon. And even though it doesn’t involve a movie star proper, this is someone who’s worked with many, many movie stars. Who has made movie stars. Which means, if this scandal is as By Lainey • Oct 05, 2017 09:33 am
Cannes 2016 Katy dresses for Orly? Katy Perry performed at the amfAR gala last night in Cannes. AmfAR is always on the Thursday night. And it’s the unofficial end of the festival. By Friday most press have already left so that they can go home and reclaim their weekends and their lives. When I used By Lainey • May 20, 2016 12:05 pm
Music Intro for May 6, 2016 Dear Gossips, Two deeps dives from yesterday to recommend if you haven’t already: Barry Avrich is a Canadian filmmaker who was trying a few years ago to put together an unauthorised documentary about Harvey Weinstein. According to Barry, Harvey Weinstein wasn’t exactly supportive. Barry details the experience in By Lainey • May 06, 2016 09:30 am
Media Manipulation Michael Keaton goes for 3 in a row Spotlight won Best Picture on Sunday at the Oscars. It was one of my top films coming out of TIFF. Yes for Spotlight. Last year Birdman was Best Picture. So that's two in a row for Michael Keaton. Will it be three? Michael's next major role By Lainey • Mar 02, 2016 01:18 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio Celebrating Bryan Cranston We learned last week following the SAG and Golden Globe nominations that, right now, Bryan Cranston could be a legitimate challenger to Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor. Trumbo will play well to those old f-ckers in the Academy and Bryan Cranston is very, very well liked among his peers. Also By Lainey • Dec 15, 2015 03:57 pm
Media Manipulation Harvey’s hopes for Rooney & Jake Harvey Weinstein wrote a piece for The Hollywood Reporter that was published yesterday about award season, specifically about his concerns about award season and how the only films considered are the ones that are released in the fall, ignoring quality features that opened earlier in the year. After complimenting other By Lainey • Dec 04, 2015 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake’s Oscar plans Jake Gyllenhaal wasn’t at the Palais last night. The jury wasn’t required. Here he is today around town. And pictures of him from opening night on Wednesday looking very smooth in that tux. While Jake had no official engagements to attend on Thursday, he was part of the By Lainey • May 15, 2015 12:50 pm
