Books Mariah & Oprah When I heard Mariah Carey was sitting down with Oprah to promote her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (which comes out tomorrow) I was ready to inject it in my veins. Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi is one of the defining albums of my childhood and The By Cody • Sep 28, 2020 09:47 am
Royals The British Royal Weekend: Virtual interviews, Oprah’s guesthouse, and Rose! Finding Freedom, the book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been out for almost a week now – are you finished reading? Most of the juiciest bits were pretty much reported in the press. And now that the book has been released and the press around it is beginning to By Lainey • Aug 17, 2020 11:31 am
Barack Obama Ranking the virtual commencement speeches In lieu of traditional graduations, the class of 2020 has been treated to a series of virtual commencement speeches from various celebrities and political figures. (Shout out to the class of 2020 who are coming of age in a literal nightmare but are hanging in there with the TikTok dances By Sarah • Jun 04, 2020 03:41 pm
Xenu Smut 15 Years Later: Tom Cruise and The Beige Couch I’ve never been to the Smithsonian but sometimes I will read about an exhibit piece from pop culture, like Dorothy’s red shoes or the hazmat suits from Breaking Bad. You know what belongs in the Smithsonian of my mind? Oprah’s couch circa 2005, the year Tom Cruise By Maria • May 28, 2020 10:57 am
Music Together at Home… with the Queen of All Feelings Lady Gaga’s collaboration with Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation, Together at Home, a worldwide concert event to celebrate those on the frontline, healthcare workers, and scientists who are all trying to get out through this pandemic, airs on Saturday. As previously mentioned, Gaga and the event coordinators By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 01:20 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The sound of slapping flesh and Oprah, vlogger As promised, Duana and I are trying to produce more episodes of Show Your Work now that we’re all in lockdown. Today’s new episode opens with a discussion about the sounds of flesh-slapping. It’s one of the most lucrative entertainment streams… and no, we are not talking By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Top Reads Lady Gaga and Oprah talk about Bradley Cooper We’ll get to Bradley Cooper in a minute. Let’s first talk about this conversation between Lady Gaga and Oprah for the new issue of ELLE. How did this happen? For all the things she has going on, how did Oprah end up interviewing Gaga for a magazine? When By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 11:38 am
Storm Reid Intro for October 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, It seems like most of Black Hollywood was in Atlanta this weekend for the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios. Oprah and Stedman walked the carpet together. Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg shared a moment on the red carpet. Samuel L Jackson, Viola Davis, and Tiffany Haddish were By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 09:30 am
TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Oprah, Gayle, and Jada’s media takeover Thank you for your messages over the last week requesting commentary on Leaving Neverland and Michael Jackson. We decided to hold it for Show Your Work and have a full-bodied discussion. That said, if there was any doubt in my mind about the documentary – and there wasn’t – I would By Lainey • Mar 13, 2019 01:23 pm
TV Updates Leaving Neverland premieres this weekend After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. I’ve not written about it because By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 10:30 am
Award Season Campaigning Oprah for Black Panther As we’ve seen over the last few weeks, many of Hollywood’s biggest names have been rallying around their friends in the Oscar race. It happens every year – celebrities campaigning for each other, hosting screenings and dinners, posing for photos, making sure Academy members know who’s the most By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 01:01 pm
Royal Wedding 2018 Oprah and Idris at the Royal Wedding We were told this morning on an embargo until they arrived that Oprah would be showing up. There have been rumours that Oprah is doing an interview with Doria Ragland. Those rumours haven’t been confirmed but, clearly, there’s some kind of relationship. Note Oprah and Idris’s arrival By Lainey • May 19, 2018 05:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews In Defense of A Wrinkle in Time It has been just over two weeks since I saw A Wrinkle in Time. It was a press screening, which usually means I’m sitting alone being extra all by myself. But this time, my best friend Liz –who works with Lainey at etalk – was sitting beside me. We laughed. By Kathleen • Mar 15, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is an ambitious movie and its scope outstrips its narrative ability, resulting in an uneven but occasionally enthralling fantasy. Meg (Storm Reid, terrific) is introduced helping her father, Alex Murry (Chris Pine, terrific) in his lab. He’s doing an experiment with sand and frequencies, and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 03:12 pm
TV Updates Tiff and O About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne. i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought They& By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 11:31 am
