Oscars 2019 Melissa McCarthy Won’t Let Me I wanted to be annoyed. Melissa McCarthy was the long-shot nominee for a fantastic performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me, and even though I knew, and you knew, and she knew, that it was never going to happen, I wanted more people to treat it like it was a By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy’s Ironic Oscar Nom Maybe the title above isn’t fair. Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar Best Actress nomination for playing Lee Israel, an irascible crank in her 50s who pulled off an incredible scam, and Can You Ever Forgive Me is completely worth your time. The nomination is completely deserved and also kind By Duana • Jan 22, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy at her best in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy is best known as a comedienne, but really she’s a good actress with a talent for playing cranks and borderline unpleasant, blunt characters. She excels when she’s playing someone who says and does as she pleases, so Can You Ever Forgive Me? is right up her By Sarah • Oct 19, 2018 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy, the contender For all of the amazing photos of Laura Dern in fishing gear, or a dressed down Nicole Kidman hanging with fellow Aussies Hugh Jackman and Joel Edgerton at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, it looks like nobody was having more fun than Melissa McCarthy. Her movie, Can You By Joanna • Sep 04, 2018 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happytime Murders is aggressively mediocre You may have heard that The Happytime Murders, the R-rated puppet noir starring Melissa McCarthy, is getting hammered with bad reviews. It’s currently standing at 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s the worst movie of the year or it’s the worst movie ever, depending on who you ask. By Sarah • Aug 24, 2018 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa and Tiffany in The Kitchen Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy have gotten to work on their mob movie, The Kitchen, filming in 1970s get ups today. This is a really good look for both, right? 1970s fashion isn’t workable for everyone—the proportions are unforgiving and don’t work for me at all—but By Sarah • May 11, 2018 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tiffany Haddish and some other people Tiffany Haddish, as Duana noted after the Oscars, is a Star. She has It. When Tiffany Haddish is around, all you want to be looking at or listening to is Tiffany Haddish. And she is beginning to have projects built around her, as Stars do, including one called The Kitchen. By Sarah • Mar 21, 2018 01:24 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Melissa’s belted plaid Plaid is big this season. As it is every season. But this season we’re making a point of highlighting it. The most prominent plaid that we’ve seen has been red plaid - most recently on Jessica Biel last week. Red plaid can be tricky on a red carpet By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 12:22 pm
Melissa McCarthy Intro for February 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, How many times since Saturday night have you watched Melissa McCarthy in the Sean Spicer sketch? I watched it twice that night, another 3 times the next day, and at least once a day this week. There’s something new that’s funny to me with every viewing. By Lainey • Feb 08, 2017 09:25 am
TV Updates Melissa McCarthy stole SNL Kristen Stewart did a solid job hosting SNL, but Melissa McCarthy stole the show—arguably the whole season—with her impression of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. There had been no word that McCarthy was coming on, so it was a total surprise, which quickly gave way to a vengeful kind By Sarah • Feb 06, 2017 09:29 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 20, 2017 Mood today. nope— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 20, 2017 It’s a prosperous time for Wendi Deng. Look at the way they are posing -- have you ever seen Ivanka this casual and informal with anyone? That’s how you know they are tight, they don’t need to pose By Maria • Jan 20, 2017 04:00 pm
TV Updates Road to Gilmore Girls: Trailer of Melancholy I love the way the fans are being treated with the Gilmore Girls revival. There is a treat every other week. It’s kind of ironic, because wild horses couldn’t drag these fans away. And this trailer delivers all the goods. Every face you wanted to see, right? There’ By Duana • Oct 25, 2016 01:34 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Melissa’s city lights This is a great print, a city lights photograph, perhaps, transferred to material. I love it. And it would also be great in a pair of pants. The design of this top is great too, with the two pleats coming down on each side creating some extra movement around the By Lainey • Jul 25, 2016 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Four Funny Women in Ghostbusters Ghostbusters starts with a laugh, as an historical mansion tour guide—Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods, doing more in five minutes than many can do in an entire film—gives his spiel about the supposed haunting of the “Aldridge Mansion”, describing a murderous daughter entombed in her home’s basement By Sarah • Jul 13, 2016 10:44 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, June 14, 2016 Yesterday Lainey wrote about the FNL reunion at the ATX Television Festival. You know who else was there? Josh and Donna. I feel like there’s a good number of you who will care about this. As requested, your Josh & Donna selfie. Good night Austin! pic.twitter.com/ke5pGIzEDx— By Maria • Jun 14, 2016 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The NuGhostbusters are cover stars Elle is debuting their first women in comedy issue, and the NuGhostbusters are their first funny-lady cover stars. I kind of don’t care about Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy—they’ve covered magazines before, and will again—but I’m SUPER into Leslie Jones’s cover. I love the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 10:14 am
