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
Lifestyle 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
Golden Globes 2017 Meryl Streep: Best Globes Speech Do you think she really did lose her voice? Or do you think she knew her speech would be that much more effective if the room was pin-drop silent so everyone could listen to her? Do you think that Meryl Streep had to look up which of her fellow nominees By Duana • Jan 09, 2017 01:58 pm
Golden Globes 2017 Viola Davis: Golden Globes MVP You know what I mean by MVP, right? There are others who will get the label ‘best dressed’ (though for me, this yellow column came very close. Davis always does colours but this was the best and it’s only January!) and there are others who were arguably ‘bigger’ winners, By Duana • Jan 09, 2017 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins The catch-up continues with Meryl Streep’s latest Oscar vehicle, Florence Foster Jenkins. I want to sh*t on this movie for being too saccharine and unevenly balanced between its two leads, but this movie is explicitly about NOT sh*itting on people who are trying really hard, even if By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep’s annual nomination is here Few things in our universe are more inevitable than Meryl Streep receiving Oscar nominations whenever she uses an accent in a film. Death, taxes, Meryl Streep accent Oscars—these are the immutable forces of our universe. And now Streep is back with her latest accent, which is a combination of By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 11:50 am
