Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s cult from hell Nicole Kidman is really flourishing in the current television landscape. She’s been in great films over the last decade, stuff like Paddington, The Beguiled, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Destroyer, the upcoming The Northman. But she’s also had a slew of killer television work, from Top of the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2021 03:19 pm
Golden Globes 2021 The Golden Globes Didn’t Bother To Make a Television Production What’s the most common critique of the Golden Globes? I mean, the overarching one (not the one that occurred this weekend when it became clear they have zero Black members to the point where they all remember the last person who applied, and was rejected, somewhere in the 2010s. By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 06:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Famous People in The Prom Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom is a strange artifact from another time. Though it debuted in 2016 and hit Broadway in 2018, it feels like flotsam from the Obama-era, something from a less contentious, less overtly divisive time when “NYC Broadway liberals” versus “small-town By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 02:13 pm
Nicole Kidman Intro for October 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, My Halloween tradition here at LaineyGossip is to complain about Halloween. I hate it. That doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, because I’m actually very good at Halloween – I am a professional, goddamn it! – but it’s such a pain in the ass. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 08:53 am
Gorgessity Charlize Theron: Golden Globes Best Dressed (Duana) All right… let’s do this. I even cracked my knuckles in anticipation. Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘best dressed’ as… Yeah, yeah, okay. Tired joke. But, knowing that I was gonna choose this look, and also knowing how many people already hate it, I wanted to actually try to do By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell doesn’t quite work Bombshell tells the story of Roger Ailes’ ouster at Fox News amid a sexual harassment scandal. In hindsight, it’s a proto-#MeToo story about a predator felled when enough people listened to enough women recount horror stories of harassment and abuse, and it happened at one of the most By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews SAG’s Triple Bombshell The cast of Bombshell, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, attended a special screening for the film last night in LA, just before the Screen Actors Guild nominations this morning. Bombshell came up big, with all three women earning nominations – Charlize in the leading category and both Nicole and By Lainey • Dec 11, 2019 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell is coming for Oscar…and is MBJ coming for Charlize? Last week at LaineyGossip, we played “Leave Room For” in the Oscar race. Sarah wrote that award season has to leave room for 1917 and in my post about leaving room for Queen & Slim, I mentioned that we also have to leave room for Bombshell. Bombshell comes out December By Lainey • Oct 15, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Other Bombshell Recently, the title “Bombshell” has been most affiliated with Hedy Lamarr, who has been relaunched into public awareness largely thanks to a documentary called Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. However, there is a new Bombshell on the block, and it’s the story of Roger Ailes’ downfall starring Nicole Kidman, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep is the star of The Prom: The Musical – The Movie Around the time of Tonys, I learned there is such a thing as The Prom, a musical about prom, and I felt acute relief that I could go through life, not knowing anything about The Prom. But now, I must study up on The Prom, because Ryan Murphy is adapting By Sarah • Jun 26, 2019 12:35 pm
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
Smutty Surgery “Baby Girl” is there for Keith’s first Keith Urban was named Male Artist of the Year last night at the ACM Awards. He also won Entertainer of the Year, the first of his career, after winning the same award six months ago at the CMAs, also for the first time. And, of course, “Baby Girl” Nicole Kidman By Lainey • Apr 08, 2019 01:21 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s throwback hair Nicole Kidman is currently in New York shooting a new series for HBO called The Undoing based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known. She plays Grace Sachs, a woman who appears to have it all together – husband has a successful medical practice, son is enrolled at By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 03:40 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Nicole Kidman’s Critics’ Choice Best Dressed There are black and white dresses…and then there are truly special black and white dresses. And this Armani Privé on Nicole Kidman is one of the most special black and white dresses we’ve seen all season. In many seasons, actually. Of course few people can wear the sh-t By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 02:39 pm
