Penelope Cruz Is Penelope in the chat? For months now, ever since she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, Oscar predictors have been leaving space on the Oscar Best Actress nomination list for Penelope Cruz. Penelope, however, hasn’t been all that By Lainey • Dec 15, 2021 12:24 pm
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Chloe Zhao and her Backpack Chloe Zhao wore her hair down yesterday instead of in her signature double braids for the Venice Film Festival jury photo call. The braids were missing again last night at the gala for opening night. But the hair is not the story here. I thought the story might be the By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope Cruz goes bootcut There was a big generational debate a few weeks ago over jeans between Millennials and Gen Z. According to Gen Z, it’s middle parts and bootcut jeans over side parts and skinny jeans. Millennials took exception to this. Not my generational fight but I’ve always been middle part By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The 355 is NOT a comedy I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought The 355 was an action-comedy. This is the all-lady spy movie Jessica Chastain pitched to Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, and I don’t know what about that made me think it was going to be a comedy, but By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 11:22 am
Penelope Cruz Intro for February 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, Our Annual Contest – you predict the award winners and I send you a prize (a designer bag) – is still happening either today or tomorrow so look out for it! The Academy yesterday announced its final round of presenters. Jane Fonda is on the list and if you include By Lainey • Feb 06, 2020 08:46 am
Style Chanel: Karl’s final apres-ski At Paris Fashion Week today: Chanel’s Fall 2019 presentation, presumably the last Karl Lagerfeld would have worked on extensively, so it was an emotional tribute featuring many of his muses, a moment of silence at the beginning, and then Karl’s voice echoing through the Grand Palais, talking about By Lainey • Mar 05, 2019 10:29 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Judith Light forever and ever and Penelope Cruz is always in feathers The Assassination of Gianni Versace won multiple times last night: Outstanding Limited Series, directing for Ryan Murphy, and Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Darren Criss. Ryan dedicated the award to the “one out of every four LGBTQ people in this country (who) will be the victim of a By Lainey • Sep 18, 2018 03:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain made a lady spy movie happen Jessica Chastain has become one of the most visible advocates for women in the film industry, speaking out for more inclusion and using her position to get her co-stars equal pay. And now she’s not waiting for people to bring her starring vehicles, she’s making her own starring By Sarah • May 11, 2018 10:07 am
Style Penelope’s best in a while Ordinarily we’d slot a post like this on the LifeStyle page because it’s pure fashion, one outfit. The reason it’s on the main page, however, is because it’s Penelope Cruz, specifically Penelope Cruz in a super dope outfit and I haven’t liked much of what By Lainey • Mar 07, 2018 05:12 pm
TV Updates Versace Crime Story The next chapter in Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology is The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and a new trailer has dropped, giving us a look at what Murphy has done with this story. The answer seems to be: render it a soap opera. Which is basically what Murphy By Sarah • Nov 15, 2017 03:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope & Javier in Venice Some people have called Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet the Brange of France. If you are French and you want to dispute this, let me know, I’m not here to debate you. What I’m getting at is whether or not there’s an equivalent in Spain. Are Penelope By Lainey • Sep 06, 2017 12:26 pm
TV Updates Versace in a pink robe When I first looked at these photos in thumbnail size, I thought it was Jude Law, shooting more episodes for a new season of The Young Pope. Jude Law’s young pope would totally wear a pink robe. It is not Jude Law though. It’s Edgar Ramirez as Gianni By Lainey • May 12, 2017 03:37 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 20, 2017 I’m back, just in time for Emile Hirsch to tell us (and his fellow actors/actresses) that Twitter is not a “meaningful” way to promote films. But you know what Emile does find meaningful? Retweeting compliments. He does it a lot. Myth: actors on social media help promote their By Maria • Mar 20, 2017 04:40 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 10, 2017 Remember when Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz were on Punk’d? I thought Salma showed P the giant poo in the washroom, but my memory doesn’t serve me well: Penelope did it to Salma. I do remember someone saying over and over again, “Why would you show me this? By Maria • Jan 10, 2017 02:29 pm
