Equality Issues Intro for February 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, When Shamier Anderson and Stephan James announced the launch of The Black Academy back in December, they shared that the initiative was about recognising and celebrating Black talent in arts and culture in Canada, and about measuring success on your own terms, reframing the benchmark of success in By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 08:53 am
Maple Leaf Pam is Married Last night Lainey texted me about Pamela Anderson, and for a solid two hours I was repeating “Pa-MEL-a” in a Borat accent to no one in particular. A sure sign something is broken, probably a combination of pandemic brain and social media gluttony fuelled by the Reddit stock party. In By Maria • Jan 28, 2021 10:14 am
Equality Issues Angelina Goes Back to Target Another week, another trip to Target – last week Angelina was shopping at Target with Zahara, this week she’s back at the store but with Knox. Which I would imagine is not unusual if you’re a parent, having to pick up supplies for either school or play or whatever, By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 12:46 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds and All His Bromances On the Pop Chat podcast earlier this week with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Sarah Hagi, one the questions that came up as a lookback on 2020 was…which celebrities did not do well in 2020 and which ones came out good? A lot of celebrities sucked in 2020 but there were By Lainey • Jan 15, 2021 02:04 pm
Top Reads Happy New Year, Keanu Reeves As we’ve said so many times in the past, where the big name movie stars are concerned, the ones who’ve been familiar to us for so long, it’s Keanu Reeves who we can be most confident will not be trending on Twitter for being problematic. I mean, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2021 03:22 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel McAdams returns to Marvel and Tatiana Maslany is IN I’ve been covering the info dump from yesterday Disney Investor Day, where they bragged about topping 86 million subscribers in 13 months, and announced a bunch of new theatrical and streaming stuff to roll out over the next few years. As you’ve seen already today there’s so By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 01:04 pm
Maple Leaf Wonder Woman stress Lainey emailed me this morning about being “stressed” about how she is going to watch Wonder Woman 1984 later this month. For Canada, the stress is real. With no HBO Max and not ideal circumstances for going to movie theaters right now, how to see WW84 is a stressful situation. By Sarah • Dec 07, 2020 01:10 pm
Equality Issues Intro for December 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a few years now at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, the B.L.A.C.K. Ball has been one of the most anticipated events on the schedule. B.L.A.C.K. stands for “Building a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2020 08:52 am
Maple Leaf Intro for November 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we approach the end of the year, the lists keep coming. I do love a list. I like the discipline of holding myself back from scrolling to the bottom of it so as to not spoil #1. I like the reward of reading through each entry – and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 08:48 am
Music Justin Bieber opens the AMAs Justin Bieber opened the American Music Awards last night with back-to-back performances of his songs “Lonely” and “Holy”. It’s been almost a year since JB announced his return to music, eventually releasing his fifth studio album, Changes, with plans for a world tour. Nobody went on tour this year By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 11:59 am
Music Shawn and Justin: Their Inner Monsters I’ve always found it weird how Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber have rarely crossed paths — at least publicly. Justin was already a megastar by the time Shawn even stepped onto the scene, but in my head these two princes of pop, who grew up down the highway from each By Cody • Nov 20, 2020 09:36 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: The Movie Star of All Feelings As I wrote yesterday in my post about Keanu Reeves, we have to take the delight where we can get it – and you know who’s all about giving? Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. And she’s making headlines in an unexpected space: movies! It was announced yesterday By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:36 am
Maple Leaf Shawn Mendes’s Thirsty Trailer Every time we see Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello together, I debate whether they’re in madly in love, the way they tell us they are, or if it’s a showmance. I’m still undecided, but the trailer for Shawn’s new Netflix doc In Wonder is giving me By Cody • Oct 21, 2020 10:10 am
Maple Leaf Keanu kissed Alexandra Keanu Reeves is in Berlin continuing to work on The Matrix 4 and was seen presumably getting dropped off for work the other day by Alexandra Grant. They kissed as they said goodbye. It’s almost civilian styles, in this case however we’re talking about when one of the By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 11:25 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Does it just feel like there’s been a lot of new music this year… or has there actually been a lot of new music? The pandemic has made it so that artists can't party and they can’t tour. And while, sure, some of them By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 08:56 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend. But COVID numbers are surging in many parts of the country, including where I live, where a record number of new cases was confirmed yesterday and more restrictions are being put in place. I imagine that Thanksgiving or not, this is By Lainey • Oct 09, 2020 09:29 am
