TV Updates Factual Evidence to support Crucible Cast Party (I don’t remember the Sprite. What am I forgetting?) The most recent episode of SNL was always going to be a stacked deck for musical theatre, song-and-Broadway nerds. Elsewhere you can see host Lin-Manuel Miranda do his ‘I hope I nail SNL hosting’ rap to the tune of My By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 11:08 am
BFFs The Cumberbatch-Hiddleston circle jerk Tom Hiddleston covers the new issue of Interview, interviewed by his friend Benedict Cumberbatch. The conversation basically goes like this: Benedict thanks Tom for taking the time. Tom thanks Benedict for taking the time. Benedict asks a question. Tom thanks Benedict for asking the question, answers the question, and then By Lainey • Sep 28, 2016 12:21 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, redeemed in New York This is more like it, KATHLEEN. Not only is this Variety cover of Lin-Manuel Miranda much more representative of what he actually looks like than certain fashion covers from a week ago, it’s also him in his natural habitat of New York (if by ‘natural’ you mean casually leaning By Duana • Sep 28, 2016 11:50 am
Quiveration Does Lin-Manuel Miranda do it for you? As Lainey would say, “picture him on top of you.” Is something happening? Are you feeling it? I mean, I’ve always wanted to share a life with Lin-Manuel, just holding each other every night watching rom-coms, coming up with cute rhymes about our love and listening to the Hamilton By Kathleen • Sep 22, 2016 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miranda, A Mermaid, A Memo, Mitigation Look, there’s a lot of news. Not everyone can know everything. It’s a proven fact, it’s not a crime. Can’t I be forgiven for reading this headline, scanning the article, and going ‘What? Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to play a crab now?’ So, no. He’s By Duana • Aug 18, 2016 02:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning JT’s Trolling the HFPA I couldn’t help it! I’m sorry! It’s Friday and I’m 6 hours from the weekend and a nice break and I can’t contain the bad jokes. Justin Timberlake was at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event last night too. As I mentioned in the post By Lainey • Aug 05, 2016 01:40 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, July 11, 2016 I bet you Taylor sent her those balloons. Taylor is definitely the kind of friend who would celebrate your social media following with a mylar balloon delivery. Holy $@&#..... 5 million😱 !?! Thank you to the moon and back! Infinite love and gratitude to you all. XOXOXO A photo posted by By Maria • Jul 11, 2016 04:37 pm
Music Love Make The World Go Round Lin-Manuel Miranda cannot quit Twitter. So that’s where he posted yesterday morning that he would soon have music that “you don’t need tickets to hear”. Because he’s not busy enough and doesn’t have enough jobs. Turns out it’s a charity single with JLo, Love Make By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 12:52 pm
Music What The World Needs Now… You know when something’s somehow better than you expected? The Broadway for Orlando charity single is exactly what they promised it would be –Broadway’s brightest and most legendary voices coming together to cover What the World Needs Now is Love. 100% of the sales go to the LGBT By Duana • Jun 21, 2016 12:34 pm
Clay Aiken Celebrities Holding The Mic I’ve been the first to say we should treat entertainers like entertainers, not role models. But in the wake of the Orlando massacre, there are reactions that make me think that, sometimes, I should revise my opinion – including my opinion on some of the stars having the reactions in By Duana • Jun 16, 2016 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Just give Lin-Manuel Miranda the Oscar now Following the surprise billion-dollar success of Zootopia—and the inevitable domination of Pixar’s Finding Dory—Disney will cap their (outrageous box office bonanza) year in animation with a new princess movie, Moana. It’s about a Polynesian princess, Moana, it features a mythical Maori figure, Maui, and it’s By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 10:52 am
Amazingness Hamilton at the Tony Awards “I am inimitable, I am an original” You could be forgiven if you felt a little overwhelmed by the amount of Hamilton coverage lately. It’s so ubiquitous because Lin-Manuel Miranda and the show Hamilton are at once separate entities and inextricably linked. Miranda won two Tonys personally last night, By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 02:40 pm
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Broadway-Themed Carpool Karaoke I’ve been resistant to Carpool Karaoke. I don’t know why, exactly, I like James Corden - it just seemed like the kind of viral thing you can ‘get’ without ever having to actually watch it. There were so many tweets and retweets and ‘ZOMG!’ that I felt like By Duana • Jun 07, 2016 01:22 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda: the answer? Yesterday I posted about Justin Timberlake, Trolls, and Can’t Stop The Feeling, whether or not the song would be his Oscar. And then a reader called Stefanie wrote to remind me that Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the music for Disney’s Moana, opening in November, just a couple of By Lainey • May 11, 2016 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins I cannot tell you how much this casting delights me. I never think of Emily Blunt as being super-British, which is ridiculous because of course she’s British and also how do you gauge the Brit-ness of someone? But I guess, as opposed to Adele or Stella McCartney or someone By Duana • Apr 26, 2016 01:00 pm
Jock Smut Intro for April 22, 2016 Dear Gossips, TIME Magazine released its list of the 100 Most Influential yesterday. As you know, the list is divided into 5 categories: Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders, and Icons. And, to me, what’s more interesting than the list itself is how they group the people on the list and By Lainey • Apr 22, 2016 09:33 am
