TV Updates Yes and No – Season 2 Trailer of Big Little Lies There is nothing that makes me feel more ‘yes and no’ than the trailer for Season 2 of Big Little Lies. I specifically don’t mean ‘conflicted’, which at least to me means that you’re so full of all kinds of back and forth feelings that you can’t By Duana • Apr 15, 2019 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody loves Emily There were some significant snubs today when the SAG nominations were announced. We’ll discuss them here and there in other posts later and what that means for Oscar. It’s a competitive year. That’s the simple, incomplete explanation. It’s also, as always, a popularity contest. And what By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the summer fling of 2018 I have not seen Mamma Mia! and I don’t know enough ABBA to make a go of it at karaoke, and I hate musicals, so Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again had a lot of ground to make up with me. I sat through the whole movie, and I By Sarah • Jul 19, 2018 10:22 am
Zoe Kravitz Meryl gets another Emmy The official news is that Meryl Streep is joining the cast of Big Little Lies but we all know what that really means. Season two won’t air until next year so they should just go ahead and put Meryl’s name on the 2020 Emmy ballot. #Meryl2020 Let’s By Kathleen • Jan 25, 2018 10:39 am
Golden Globes 2018 Kelly Clarkson’s fun night at the Globes There were fears that the tone of the Golden Globes would be somber this year. In fact, Ryan Seacrest kept implying over and over that guests would have a hard timing having fun inside the show during his red carpet broadcast like you can’t have fun while also attempting By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 06:29 am
Golden Globes 2018 Intro for January 8, 2018 Dear Gossips, Before we begin, and if you haven’t already, please read the excellent interview featuring the Fug Girls, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, by Constance Grady for Vox about red carpet coverage during #MeToo. I don’t want to excerpt one particular comment or answer because I don’ By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 02:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post Set during the pre-Watergate Nixon administration, The Post follows the Washington Post back when it was considered a “local paper”. The New York Times is the paper of record, but the Post is under the control of Kay Graham, whose father left the family publishing empire to her husband, who By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Delivering The Post Not unlike P.T. Anderson’s Phantom Thread, when it comes to Oscar odds, everyone left room for Steven Spielberg’s latest, The Post. It features a heavyweight ensemble led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, and it’s about the Washington Post going up against Nixon’s administration over By Sarah • Nov 10, 2017 10:07 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein & the Hollywood Hierarchy Harvey Weinstein was fired by The Weinstein Company, his own company, on Sunday. Before his termination, he sent a letter to other powerful Hollywood executives, asking for their support. According to The Hollywood Reporter the recipients of his memo included David Zaslav, Discovery Networks CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 10:07 am
Tom Hanks Steven, Meryl, and Tom Meryl Streep is playing Katharine Graham, Tom Hanks is playing Ben Bradlee, Steven Spielberg is directing. The film is called The Papers, about the Washington Post taking on the White House over the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which preceded Watergate, which then resulted in Richard Nixon’s resigning as By Lainey • Jul 28, 2017 02:20 pm
Style Intro for June 9, 2017 Dear Gossips, The American Film Institute honoured Diane Keaton last night with the Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the ninth woman to receive the honour, joining a list that includes Bette Davis, Jane Fonda, Lillian Gish, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Stanwyck, and Elizabeth Taylor. Needless to say, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2017 09:11 am
Amazingness Meryl doesn’t want your pop and lock Remember when Justin Timberlake pop and locked all over the Oscars, up and down the red carpet, all over the stage, and even in the aisle every time La La Land won an award? Well he also tried to pop and lock all over Meryl Streep. So JT runs into By Lainey • Feb 28, 2017 12:21 pm
Oscars 2017 Oscar Meryl 20 There were a number of people at the show last night (and one who wasn’t at the show. So much power to you, Natalie Portman), who knew they had absolutely no chance of winning. None. Sometimes Oscar races are legitimate-ish races, and there’s more and less likely contenders, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 02:00 pm
Karl Lagerfeld Intro for February 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, It’s Oscar weekend! Are you ready? Our Annual Contest is open until tomorrow – click here if you haven’t yet submitted your ballot. In addition to the suspense of the actual awards, Sunday starts, as always, on the red carpet with the dress porn. Who will wear By Lainey • Feb 24, 2017 09:00 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Meryl’s pink turtleneck OF COURSE I love this dress. It’s a bag. It’s a turtleneck that just doesn’t stop. I’m not crazy about the stripes down the side, or the black shoes, but I would wear this so happily. And comfortably. By Lainey • Feb 22, 2017 01:09 pm
Mel Gibson Not yet, Annette, not yet Amy Remember last year when Leonardo DiCaprio was on the award circuit for The Revenant how the storyline was all what a travesty it was that he didn’t have an Oscar. Leo’s due! It’s his time! Like somehow he, Leonardo DiCaprio, LEONARDO DICAPRIO!, was hard done by. Forty By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 01:13 pm