Media Manipulation Ben Affleck Don Draper Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are going strong, and despite the Oscar snub, my goodness is it paying off. Is Argo pretty much a lock for Best Picture at this point? (I hated it, did anyone else hate it? [Lainey: I liked it very much.] And I usually really enjoy By Maria • Feb 15, 2013 04:40 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston’s Birthday Week It was Jennifer Aniston’s birthday on Monday. She’s 44 now. A monkey! PEOPLE Magazine celebrated their holiest day of the year with an article about, obviously, her hair. Jen’s been working in Connecticut on the untitled Elmore Leonard movie. She said she chose to wear a wig By Lainey • Feb 13, 2013 10:32 am
Media Manipulation Campaign Faces Jennifer Garner did indeed accompany Ben Affleck to the BAFTAs. Must leave nothing to chance. Not until February 24. Not until the big show. She’s the Mellie Grant of Hollywood. Which is why while Bradley Cooper and the rest were getting sweaty and messy at the BAFTA parties, the By Lainey • Feb 11, 2013 03:14 pm
Famewhores Pippy & Shelfy Twi-Harding PTA Check this out -- Justin Timberlake hosted an art exhibit last night with Amy Adams showing the work of her partner Darren Le Gallo. JT’s wife was there too and together they had their moment with Paul Thomas Anderson who, of course, directed Adams recently in The Master, for By Lainey • Feb 08, 2013 02:12 pm
Style Jennifer’s grey bag on the way to the BAFTAs This is Jennifer Lawrence heading out of LA en route to London yesterday ahead of the BAFTAs on Sunday where she’s nominated for Leading Actress alongside Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Helen Mirren, and Emmanuelle Riva. It’ll be the first major event where Chastain, Lawrence, and Riva go head By Lainey • Feb 08, 2013 12:50 pm
Girly Throw Downs How will Beyonce take over the Grammys? Will she? B’s been criticised this week for stealing all the lights at the Super Bowl and not being Madonna enough or being too into herself or showing off too much skin or cockblocking the girls of Destiny’s Child and, of course, not wanting to look ugly so. By Lainey • Feb 08, 2013 11:49 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Ben before BAFTA The BAFTAs are happening on Sunday. WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE SAME DAY AS THE GRAMMYS?!?! And it’s Chinese New Year on Sunday. So Monday will be busy here. But I might be a bit slow getting going because of the celebrations. Anyway, Ben Affleck’s By Lainey • Feb 07, 2013 04:15 pm
Media Manipulation Justin’s Mom Plays Stupid Justin Bieber’s mom, Pattie Mallette, was on The Today Show this morning to promote the movie she’s “executive produced” called Crescendo. No, Pattie Mallette isn’t just getting into showbiz, Pattie Mallette is getting into the business of reproduction. This movie is a biopic of Beethoven’s mom By Dean • Feb 07, 2013 02:58 pm
Media Manipulation Bey for a Bargain After the off-brand BuzzFeed debacle -- Beyonce can’t be ugly! (seriously has anyone heard from the publicist Yvette? I’m worried for her) -- Beyoncé yesterday announced that her Mrs Carter World Tour tickets will be very accessibly priced, with tickets as low as $45 (and as high as By Maria • Feb 07, 2013 11:45 am
Media Manipulation What drives Posh Victoria Beckham is featured on the March 2013 issue of ELLE UK. I’ve attached the cover here which... Please God no, let that just be the light and not LA Face. It’s not LA Face, right? The interview is pretty insightful, although I’m not sure if that By Lainey • Jan 28, 2013 03:40 pm
Media Manipulation In the absence of the Brange... This year we get the Afflecks... You know how hard the Afflecks have been working. Last night, from the moment they arrived, it was work time, did you see? Ben Affleck hit the carpet before Jennifer Garner did -- she must have been held up getting out of the car. By Lainey • Jan 28, 2013 09:14 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Drew has it all (but only wants some of it) If I didn’t know better, I would think Drew Barrymore was campaigning for an Oscar right now. She is very present: Ellen, baby photos sold to PEOPLE, Oprah’s Next Chapter (which aired yesterday), and the Good Housekeeping February cover. This is a push usually reserved for a new By Maria • Jan 21, 2013 01:31 pm
Douchebags Charlie Sheen is still winning There’s an article in The Hollywood Reporter this week about Debmar-Mercury’s potentially revolutionizing formula for television syndication, and I wanted to read it and think about the future of TV, but I got stuck on one of the details in the article. Debmar’s syndication deal is a By Sarah • Jan 18, 2013 10:28 am
Media Manipulation Lea loves her celebrity crush She is still a pose-hard on a red carpet but... Lea Michele smells a lot less Try these days, non? She smiles more than she open-mouth gapes when she’s getting her picture taken. And the smile seems sweet, genuine, rather than desperate. Maybe I’m letting an assumption inform By Lainey • Jan 17, 2013 04:55 pm
Media Manipulation Best Actors in scarves Daniel Day-Lewis was in Madrid yesterday promoting Lincoln in a peacoat and scarf. Judging from your email and tweets, you really enjoyed this, as did I. Bradley Cooper was also in Madrid yesterday, also in a scarf. As you know, Coop has been nominated alongside DDL for a Best Actor By Lainey • Jan 17, 2013 12:08 pm
Media Manipulation One Direction Gay-Baiting There’s lots being said this week about the whole Jodie Foster coming out situation but, because my heart wants to drag things down to the lowest common denominator, I’d like to use this as an excuse to talk about how gay One Direction is…or at least how By Dean • Jan 16, 2013 04:37 pm
