Charlize Theron Intro for October 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, Charlize Theron has kept a pretty low profile this year, we haven’t seen all that much of her; but she did step out in June in support of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project wearing her hair in the trendiest style of 2022, the wolf cut: Not By Lainey • Oct 19, 2022 09:33 am
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning at the Academy Museum Gala The Oscars are still five months away but it’s never too early to campaign, and when it’s a proper Oscar event, of course you show up to represent. The second annual Academy Museum Gala happened on Saturday, this year honouring the contributions of Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, Tilda By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 11:40 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for September 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, TIFF announced that Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award which has become an Oscar booster over the years. There is no doubt that The Fabelmans will be a contender. The Academy loves Spielberg and this film is not only semi-autobiographical, By Lainey • Sep 22, 2022 09:22 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for August 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, She’s Dr Michelle Yeoh now. On Saturday Michelle received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute presented to her by The Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who directed her in Everything Everywhere All At Once, considered by almost everyone to be one By Lainey • Aug 16, 2022 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Michelle Yeoh save the Russos from gray glop? It’s a tale of two movies: indie blockbuster darling Everything Everywhere All At Once, a critical and commercial hit that gives Michelle Yeoh a role truly worthy of her talent, and The Gray Man, the kind of cash-in mediocrity that has come to define Netflix’s attempts at original By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 03:13 pm
Met Gala 2022 Michelle & Lena/Gemma & Ho-yeon: Jewel Tones over Black?! For Duana, it will always be jewel tones over black. For me? It will always be black over jewel tones. So I’ve shocked myself with this anomaly, a glitch in the Matrix. What’s not shocking is that it’s Michelle Yeoh who has caused it. But let’s By Lainey • May 03, 2022 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Yeoh (and Michelle Yeoh and Michelle Yeoh) in Everything Everywhere All At Once Michelle Yeoh gets the role(s) of a lifetime in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a genre-bending, mind-bending trip through the multiverse and generational trauma in which she stars as Evelyn, a woman whose life has not panned out the way she planned. After running away with her childhood sweetheart, By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, The #1 movie at the box office this coming weekend will likely be Sonic 2 and I get why. Never saw the first one but every kid I know was and is obsessed with it. And it’s not like I’m all that immersed in kid life By Lainey • Apr 07, 2022 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu and Tony Leung in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be Marvel’s first film centered on an East Asian hero, but it is also yet another origin story for a Marvel hero, though one that benefits from the ten or so origin stories that came before it. In almost every By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 12:34 pm
Style Ten Rings and Sandra Oh Simu Liu and the cast of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are in London tonight for the UK premiere. Michelle Yeoh missed the Hollywood premiere ten days ago because she’s working in London, so it’s great to see her here, with Awkwafina and also Sandra By Lainey • Aug 26, 2021 04:13 pm
Style Awkwafina’s All-Asian Parties As promised, our coverage of the Shang-Chi world premiere in Hollywood continues – this is Awkwafina on the red carpet last night in a gorgeous red trimmed oversized suit, also belted Asian styles like her co-star Simu Liu. She mentioned on her IG stories that it was her first carpet “in By Lainey • Aug 17, 2021 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, and this By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Post-Khaleesi Last Christmas I was in New York on Sunday and Monday for the Last Christmas press screening and junket. It was my Christmas 2018 wish come true – last year, I wrote that I really wanted to be assigned to this movie for etalk because, well, everything about this movie checks my boxes: By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 11:52 am
Oscars 2019 Michelle and Gemma: Crazy Rich Couture A quick aside before we get to Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan’s red carpet looks – remember all that business about fighting over presenters and the Academy telling people that if they presented at any other award shows, they wouldn’t be able to come to the Oscars? One of By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 06:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The end of a Crazy Rich season Crazy Rich Asians was not nominated for Oscar last week so the SAGs was the last awards season stop for the cast, at least until the sequel comes out. Which won’t be for a while since director Jon M Chu is working with Lin-Manual Miranda on the film adaptation By Lainey • Jan 28, 2019 08:48 am
Michelle Yeoh Intro for January 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, My mother came back from Asia recently with a gift for me, a gorgeous jade bangle. We Chinese are big on jade bangles. You often see them on babies. I was wearing a jade bangle around my fat wrist in my first baby portraits. Jade is supposed to By Lainey • Jan 16, 2019 09:07 am
