Equality Issues The problem with Lee Daniels Lee Daniels caught a lot of backlash over a tweet he made about the role played by Glenn Close in his new Netflix film, The Deliverance. In the tweet, he referred to Alberta, Glenn’s character, as “part of the fabric of our community”. And it did not sit well By Stephanie • Sep 03, 2024 12:45 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 21, 2016 Amy Schumer has been accused of stealing jokes, and she quickly denied it. (Click here to read Sarah’s post on that.) Her friends were pretty quick to defend her as well. Anyone accusing @amyschumer of stealing jokes is a ding dong. She's one of the hardest working By Maria • Jan 21, 2016 04:15 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, November 19, 2015 Everyone loves Jennifer Meyer Maguire. She has as many friends as Gwyneth, I swear. She also has something else in common with Gwyneth – her husband, Toby, never, ever seems to be around when she’s promoting her jewelry line or new clothing line. Follow me @barneysnyofficial when I take over By Maria • Nov 19, 2015 05:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Nominations 2011 Roger Ebert offered this yesterday: "I suspect Justin Timberlake has an excellent chance for “The Social Network,” not only because he was wonderful, which he was, but because in some sense Academy voters consider themselves as the default casting directors for the Oscarcast and would like to add a By Lainey • Jan 25, 2011 02:38 am
Mo`Nique Mo`Nique An introduction to Oscar campaigning Written by Sarah I noticed something weird during my first winter in Los Angeles. Driving down the 10 freeway I saw a billboard for a movie that had come out six months earlier. “LA is usually little more on top of changing their billboards,” I said (or something along those By Lainey • Jan 10, 2011 02:39 am
Oscars 2010 Mo’Nique on money Sure hope the Academy voting deadline has passed. Because Mo’Nique’s recent comments about money may not go over very well with members. She has been brilliant through awards season, tempering criticism late last year that she was insisting on financial gain in exchange for promoting Precious and representing By Lainey • Feb 25, 2010 02:44 am
Colin Firth Which portrait is the fairest? The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue features skinny white girls on the front and actor/director portraits inside, all of them by Annie Leibovitz and much more interesting than the banality on the cover. Not to say that individually, those girls are delightful, but again, the lack of diversity was troubling, By Lainey • Feb 04, 2010 10:20 am
Golden Globes 2010 Golden Globes 2010 Wrap-up WHO’s NATALIE??????????????????? As Duana noted during our live blog, that sealed it for us right there. No matter what happened after, Julia Roberts’s dismissal of “Natalie” made our lives. Some of you were not watching NBC’s Globes preshow so you missed the moment. “Natalie” is Natalie Morales. By Lainey • Jan 18, 2010 12:34 am
Mo`Nique Mo`Nique Mo’Nique doesn’t want it? Well…no… She just won't campaign for it. Well… no… That’s not right either. She’ll campaign for it, but only if she’s paid to campaign for it. By Oprah or the studio. That’s the word according to many film industry insiders and that’s By Lainey • Dec 21, 2009 10:25 am
Cheese Precious Cheese Tits Tits out, ass out, Mimi heaved her cheese onto the carpet the other night at the New York premiere of Precious enveloped in a cloud of butterfly love and bunny rabbit affection. Mimi tottered over to the event wrapped around her husband Nick Cannon and the two proceeded to slather By Lainey • Oct 05, 2009 06:28 am
Sit DOWN Pissing away Oscar There are actors like James Franco who doesn't need the street cred and isn't a money whore who is willing to work it on daytime television just because he's curious and available (more on this tomorrow) and then there's Mo'Nique By Lainey • Oct 01, 2009 08:03 am