Gorgessity The Jordan Peele Cinematic Universe I love Jordan Peele and I hate Jordan Peele. I love him because, well, he’s a generational talent, an incredible filmmaker. I hate him because I typically do not f-ck with the kind of films he makes – Jordan Peele specialises in horror/thriller, not my genre. But his movies By Lainey • Jul 19, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s Bad Miracle Last year, Jordan Peele teased us with a poster for his new film, Nope, which might be a play on the way people “nope” out of things, like horror movies. When the first trailer for Nope debuted on game day, Lainey texted me that she will be nope-ing out of By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 02:35 pm
Met Gala 2021 Keke Palmer Hosts the BEST Met Gala Carpet I want to know who it was. Who, at Vogue, had the foresight to know that Keke Palmer would absolutely transform the Met Gala carpet, which is crazy-loud in person but eerily quiet on live feeds… until now? Because I want that person to be my best friend, because they By Duana • Sep 14, 2021 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s Nope A common refrain whenever a new horror movie trailer drops is “nope”, which Jordan Peele is making literal by titling his new movie Nope. He dropped the first poster on Twitter yesterday, confirming the title, the release date—July 22, 2022—and the leading cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and By Sarah • Jul 23, 2021 01:54 pm
Music Keke Palmer and the MTV VMAs When Cody wrote a few weeks ago about Keke Palmer being named host of the MTV VMAs he mentioned that Keke “always commits to a bit”, which is exactly what she gave us last night. Was every bit funny? No. Did every joke work? No. But what matters is that By Lainey • Aug 31, 2020 10:39 am
Top Reads Gabrielle, Uzo, Keke, and Marsai: Their Hair Story It’s no surprise that Gabrielle Union has voiced her support of the NBA players and other athletes’ striking – she’s never not used her voice, even when it’s been a risk, especially when it’s been a risk. Black women are almost always the ones taking on the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 10:36 am
TV Updates Keke Palmer: Recreating The View for Millennials? Yesterday Keke Palmer put out a call on Twitter that was quickly met with thousands of responses: “If I were to create a millennial “The View”, who would you want to be my co-hosts?” Now, I don’t want to brag (I kind of do) but I may have predicted By Cody • Aug 11, 2020 02:28 pm
Keke Palmer Keke Palmer will host the 2020 MTV VMAs Last month I asked What should Keke Palmer do next? Her early afternoon talk show Strahan, Sara & Keke had just been axed by ABC and I wondered where her talents would take her, because her talent isn’t up for debate. Now we know what the immediate future holds: By Cody • Aug 07, 2020 12:08 pm
TV Updates What should Keke Palmer do next? Page Six is reporting Keke’s Palmer’s latest gig as co-host of Strahan, Sara & Keke has come to an end. Sources say ABC has no plans to resume production on the Good Morning America spinoff, after it was put on hiatus to make room for pandemic news programming By Cody • Jul 10, 2020 02:23 pm
Keke Palmer Intro for June 3, 2020 Dear Gossips, Have you seen the video of Keke Palmer pleading with members of the National Guard yesterday at a demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles yesterday? As the caption reads, please watch. https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1267945648705298433?s=20 Yesterday Kathleen was on The By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All your faves are scamming Jennifer Lopez is a producing a movie based on that NY Mag article about the exotic dancers who scammed some of their clientele. It’s called Hustlers—from the article’s title, “The Hustlers at Scores”—and earlier this year JLo was joined by Constance Wu. Now, with the movie By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 09:59 am
TV Updates Grease: Live brings down the house Before yesterday at oh, 5PM, I barely remembered Grease: Live was going to be on TV. When I did, I was looking forward to some snark. Remember, I called Grease a shouted play with some songs in it. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. Last night wasn’ By Duana • Feb 01, 2016 09:56 am
TV Updates Marketing Problems So you know how you start hearing about someone, and then a little more, and then you’re able to say to your friends or your mom, when she asks, “oh you know, she’s kind of the awkward one in teen movies” or etc, and people reconcile the name By Duana • Oct 28, 2015 01:08 pm
TV Updates Grumpily Happy for Keke Palmer in Grease So Fox is following on the heels of NBC and staging a live musical this winter. Yes, they’re copycats, and yes, it’s going to be worse than the NBC ones. Because they’re staging Grease, the most pandering, obvious, ‘musicals 101’ of shows ever. It’s the one By Duana • Jun 01, 2015 11:53 am
TV Updates Keke Palmer for Dorothy - The Wiz on NBC Well, Deadline has apologized by not apologizing, so it’s time to pretend that the NBC musical that was announced yesterday, The Wiz, isn’t totally a reactive, opportunistic move to make them look like they’re on the side of the good guys. Last summer they said that The By Duana • Mar 31, 2015 02:43 pm
Keke Palmer Keke Palmer as Cinderella Keke Palmer’s first performance as Cinderella was last night. She is the first black Cinderella on Broadway, which is both awesome and way overdue. I’ve written here before about how charming I think Palmer is, and how effortlessly talented. She was so good as Coral on Masters Of By Duana • Sep 10, 2014 12:40 pm
