Media Manipulation George Clooney’s insecurity and the Most Fascinating Amal You want a conspiracy theory? Here’s a big one, courtesy, of course, of those hacked Sony emails. On January 29, 2014, just before the release of George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, he sent an email to Sony’s Amy Pascal, reacting to the film’s sh-tty reviews. The By Lainey • Dec 15, 2014 09:04 am
Media Manipulation Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt: more Sony email reveals What was the bigger blow to Angelina Jolie last week? The Sony email leaks or the fact that she didn’t get nominated for a Golden Globe when Jennifer Aniston did? Just some perspective now on the Sony emails – we all know now what Scott Rudin thinks of her and By Lainey • Dec 15, 2014 08:36 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Angelina Jolie says she has chicken pox Angelina Jolie will not be attending the Unbroken premiere tonight in Hollywood. Universal released a statement on Friday explaining why: Universal Pictures today confirmed that Angelina Jolie will be withdrawing from public events scheduled over the coming days due to a mild bout of chicken pox. She intends to resume By Lainey • Dec 15, 2014 08:17 am
Media Manipulation Angelina and the directors The Hollywood Reporter has posted their Director Roundtable video. It’s 2 weeks to Christmas. It’s a Friday afternoon. So, you know, if you have time to f-ck around before you hit the weekend, this is worth your time. Mike Leigh, Angelina Jolie, Richard Linklater, Bennett Miller, Christopher Nolan, By Lainey • Dec 12, 2014 03:43 pm
Assy Style Reese’s nomination print Reese Witherspoon stepped out yesterday, Golden Globe nomination day. And she was named in the Best Drama Actress category. This outfit… But this is SUCH an LA Wife outfit, non? All that’s missing is the Botox. But appropriate I guess for the weeks ahead – a lot of handshaking, a By Lainey • Dec 12, 2014 01:31 pm
Music Beyonce narrates herself Beyonce has just posted a short film to her website in celebration of the one year anniversary of her album BEYONCE. It’s all black and white and it’s mostly scenes from her videos, with a few new extended shots cut in, set to some of her own beats By Lainey • Dec 12, 2014 11:24 am
BFFs Brad Pitt’s awkward introduction Brad Pitt introduced Rihanna at her first Diamond Ball in support of her charity, The Clara Lionel Foundation, last night. It was…awkward? Is it because most of the time, when we see our entertainers, in film and on television, they’re presented to us after months, sometimes years, of By Lainey • Dec 12, 2014 10:34 am
Media Manipulation Sony Hack reveals budget drama on Bond 24 Fallout from the Sony Hack continues, and this time it’s the new Bond movie, Spectre, caught in the crosshairs. Emails between the president of MGM, Jonathan Glickman, Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, and Sony executives, including co-chief Amy Pascal—is anyone having a worse week than Amy Pascal?—reveal that By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 11:55 am
Douchebags Marky Mark wants to lead not follow Check out Mark Wahlberg and his congenial wife, Rhea Durham, at the premiere of The Gambler last night. As you know, Mark’s been in the news lately because he’s requested a pardon for beating people up when he was 16. At the time he spat out some racial By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 11:44 am
Media Manipulation No interviews at The Interview Tonight is the premiere of Seth Rogen’s and James Franco’s new movie, The Interview, in which they play entertainment reporters attempting to assassinate Kim Jong-un. North Korea is unhappy about the existence of this movie, and many people assume it’s the impetus behind the Sony Hack, but By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 11:16 am
Media Manipulation Brange: a double shutout SAG nominations yesterday, no Unbroken. Golden Globe nominations today…. NO UNBROKEN. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association SHUT OUT Brange. They SHUT OUT Angelina Jolie. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They nominated her for The Tourist! And they SHUT DOWN Unbroken! ANNNNNND… They nominated Jennifer Aniston! It’s her greatest victory By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 09:37 am
Hook Ups Taylor Swift is “happily single” Yesterday US Weekly reported exclusively that Taylor Swift is “secretly” dating Matty Healy of The 1975. I don’t know how “secret” it is if we’ve been talking about it for over two weeks now. They’ve been wearing each other’s t-shirts. She’s been to several of By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 09:08 am
Media Manipulation The prescient George Clooney There’s more and more coming out from this Sony email leak giving us one of the biggest days of gossip in a long, long time. Between that and the SAG nominations and trailer releases, I’ve been walking around with a permanent boner. Anyway, there’s also an email By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 03:16 pm
Media Manipulation “Minimally talented spoiled brat” covers PEOPLE Oh but the timing of this… She timed it, obviously, with the upcoming release of Unbroken. This is PEOPLE’s year in review Best of 2014 issue. They’re hoping it’s big numbers in circulation. Perhaps the last issue of the magazine that people will pick up before the By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 11:41 am
Media Manipulation Jen’s big SAG day Did Jennifer Aniston stay up late last night, reading and re-reading every email leaked in the Sony hack, especially the parts where Scott Rudin sh-ts on Angelina Jolie? Did it get even better when she woke up this morning – or maybe she didn’t sleep at all – to learn that… By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 10:18 am
Media Manipulation The Roadkill The latest Sony leaked emails exposed the manipulative nature of the Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin relationship and gave us some insight into the Angelina Jolie playbook. There were others though who were caught in the crossfire. Sarah has already addressed the Jobs mess – click here for a refresher. Michael By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 10:04 am
