Gross Intro for November 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this site a while, you know how much I love gross sh-t. Dr Pimple Popper is just my appetiser. My self-care is panda videos and looking for the gnarliest, nastiest ooze and goo and body fungus I can find. Which is something I By Lainey • Nov 13, 2019 08:37 am
Emma Stone The Met Gala 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened in April 1870 so next year the Met celebrates its 150th anniversary and many of its exhibits will commemorate the milestone. Which means the Costume Institute Gala, aka the Met Gala, will also be a birthday party on the first Monday By Lainey • Nov 08, 2019 01:06 pm
TV Updates LMM on B99 On yesterday’s episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lin-Manuel Miranda guest starred as Amy Santiago’s brother. If you recall, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was cancelled this summer and then saved in 31 hours, partly thanks to the swell of support from celebrities including LMM. I guess his guest appearance is a way By Prem • Mar 08, 2019 12:22 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Intro for January 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, Lin-Manuel Miranda was not at the Golden Globes on Sunday because he’s in Puerto Rico, preparing for Hamilton’s opening night on Friday. LMM will be playing Alexander Hamilton again for 3 weeks to raise money and spirits for those affected by Hurricane Maria. If you’d By Lainey • Jan 09, 2019 09:35 am
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, Unexplored in Vanity Fair If this site had a daily thesis, today’s is ‘the celebrity profile is not dead’. So obviously I dove greedily into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cover profile in Vanity Fair. But I came away feeling flat and disappointed. Upset, even. Not what I expected at all. Am I the only By Duana • Nov 27, 2018 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2018 Dear Gossips, Mary Poppins Returns, starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Meryl Streep, opens December 19 and is expected to be a holiday season blockbuster with awards potential. I’ve never seen the original. I mean, I know about Mary Poppins because I live in the world and am familiar By Lainey • Nov 09, 2018 08:31 am
Royals Harry sings, Meghan beams Here are more photos of Prince Harry and Royal Meghan at Hamilton in London last night to benefit Sentebale. They met with Lin-Manuel Miranda and his wife Vanessa Nadal before the show and sat with them during the performance. Check them out as they arrived and also taking their seats: By Lainey • Aug 30, 2018 09:59 am
Royals Harry & Meghan go to Hamilton Tonight’s performance of Hamilton in London will benefit Prince Harry’s charity, Sentebale. He and Royal Meghan arrived earlier and they are, meeting Lin-Manuel Miranda and his wife Vanessa: #princeharry & #DuchessofSussex arrive @Hamilton in London’s Victoria Palace theatre. pic.twitter.com/2htcpAnJb9— Emily Andrews (@byEmilyAndrews) August 29, By Lainey • Aug 29, 2018 03:52 pm
TV Updates The Battle for Favourite Show Last week Sarah emailed me, Lainey, and Emily, our site manager. Subject? Duana’s new favourite show. Body? “This show was made with only the freshest ingredients, pureed in the most expensive blender, and poured into a tall, frosty glass just for Duana's consumption.” I mean, let’s By Duana • Jul 30, 2018 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lin-Manuel Miranda has resurrected Movie Musicals “The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. It is not a musical cue. It is not a joke. It is the sound of one man's mounting anxiety. I... am that man.” Okay, you’d have to be under a rock not to know Lin-Manuel Miranda’ By Duana • Jul 20, 2018 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights heads to the Big Screen in 2020 You don’t need me to tell you about how today feels, and you don’t need me to tell you that Twitter is frequently a terrible, dumpster of a place to be. But what you might not know, and what might help a little today, is the revelation that By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:53 pm
Quiveration LMM and MBJ on GMA Lin-Manuel Miranda and Michael Bae Jordan were both on Good Morning America this morning. Typing out full names is a lot less fun than acronyms. They did interviews separately but when I saw the photo set of them each arriving at the studio, I started to think about how these By Kathleen • May 07, 2018 03:06 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ben Platt Release Found/Tonight Last week I almost caused a traffic accident. We were on a four-hour drive and had been listening to Hamilton for about an hour and a half, but then in the middle of Act 2, the thing that happens happened. Which I have never made it through without crying, even By Duana • Mar 21, 2018 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary Poppins Will Make LMM Busier When the entirety of Post-Oscar Monday passed without my having written about Lin-Manuel Miranda, I have to admit I felt a bit bad about it. But there wasn’t really a story to tell about him at the Oscars, because even though he’s charming, his red carpet appearances were By Duana • Mar 06, 2018 03:02 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Almost Like Praying’ A few years ago, during some now-forgotten revelation of crime or some other embarrassment during the reign of Toronto’s bumblingly catastrophic mayor Rob Ford, Kathleen said (and later tweeted) something so hilarious I fell in love. ‘I always wanted to live in Gotham but NOT WITHOUT BATMAN.’ To paraphrase By Duana • Oct 10, 2017 03:17 pm
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Magic School Bus It’s week one of our Show Your Work hiatus, and already Lainey and I have sent a dozen articles back and forth that could have been included or that might be fodder for Season 2. If we were doing an episode today, Lin-Manuel Miranda singing the new theme song By Duana • Sep 05, 2017 03:41 pm
