Maple Leaf Intro for April 1, 2019 Dear Gossips, There won’t be any April fooling on this site today, partly because I’m not clever enough to run a prank but also because I’ve never associated foolishness with the date. April 1st has always been good to me: my parents were married on April 1st, By Lainey • Apr 01, 2019 08:37 am
Equality Issues Sandra Oh Surprises at SAGs They say the mark of a good actor is that they’re able to continually surprise you. It’s not surprising that Sandra Oh won the SAG award last night, as she has swept every award this year, and I’m sure there are people who want to retroactively go By Duana • Jan 28, 2019 09:46 am
Maple Leaf Crazy Rich Asians is The Favourite Lainey and I watched The Critic’s Choice Awards together over text. Sometimes she was ahead and sometimes I was, depending on bathroom breaks, dog walk breaks, etc. When Crazy Rich Asians won Best Comedy, Lainey texted me about a minute before I heard the reveal with an “Omgggggggg!!! Kathleenn! By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 09:53 am
What Else What Else Thanks for staying with us through the night and today as we’ve rolled out our Golden Globes coverage! We LOVE our award show all-nighters. And we’re building towards the Oscars – and it’s looking like it’s going to be a year. An unpredictable year! Please keep sending By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 02:34 pm
Top Reads The Sandra Oh Golden Globes That’s how I’ll remember this year’s Golden Globes – the Sandra Oh Golden Globes. On so many levels. Let’s start with history because she made it, twice: first as the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globes and as the first Asian woman to win multiple By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 02:33 am
Ellen Degeneres Intro for January 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big weekend! It’s the Golden Globes on Sunday! The Golden Globes do not have a hosting problem. It’s the Oscars that have a hosting problem. Which is why the Oscar host dilemma is making headlines today, just two days before the Globes. With only 7 weeks By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 09:10 am
Andy Samberg Intro for December 6, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. We’ll cover those in subsequent posts throughout the day. Ahead of the nominations, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association yesterday finally confirmed who will be hosting: Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg. I don’t think anyone was expecting this… even By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 08:34 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Mr & Mrs Oh go to the Emmys It wasn’t the first time Sandra Oh took her parents to the Emmys. By my count, this was the fourth time Mr & Mrs Oh accompanied their daughter to the Emmy Awards. Here they are in 2005: And in 2006: And ten years ago in 2008: This time, though, By Lainey • Sep 18, 2018 07:50 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 17, 2018 Dear Gossips, September is World Alzheimer’s Month. Did you know that September is also, unofficially, Feel Bad for Sexual Harasser’s Month? This is not a f-cking joke. Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and New York Magazine have all published features by or about men By Lainey • Sep 17, 2018 08:56 am
Maple Leaf Intro for August 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, “It’s not a movie, it’s a movement.” -Jon M Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians CRA is not meant to be the end all and be all of Asian representation. It is however a part of the ongoing effort to tell more stories, to prove By Lainey • Aug 22, 2018 09:51 am
Kenan Thompson Emmy Noms 2018 Controversial opinion ahead: It is bullsh-t that sketch comedy shows get their own category, but then sketch performers are lumped into the Supporting Actor/Actress in a Comedy category. Not that I begrudge anyone the nominations, let’s get that out of the way, but Leslie Jones and Aidy Bryant By Duana • Jul 12, 2018 02:59 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2018 Dear Gossips, As mentioned in last Friday’s open, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, has been getting great reviews. Sandra plays Eve – and, unbelievably, it’s her first lead role in a series, four years after she left Grey’s Anatomy. And if your By Lainey • Apr 10, 2018 09:13 am
Girlcrushes Intro for April 6, 2018 Dear Gossips, A cop and a killer are obsessed with each other. It becomes less about the catching of the criminal than it is about the connection between them. You’ve seen this so many times: Heat, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino is a good example, also Point By Lainey • Apr 06, 2018 08:51 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 15, 2018 Dear Gossips, Most of you probably know Sandra Oh best as Cristina Yang, one of the greatest characters in television history and if you call this hyperbole, we can never be friends. Some of us, however, first met Sandra in Double Happiness, a 1994 film directed by Mina Shum about By Lainey • Feb 15, 2018 09:21 am
TV Updates Do you miss Sandra Oh? In Shonda Rhimes’s book, Year Of Yes, she writes a lot about writing. She writes about where she writes (sometimes in the pantry), about how writing is never complete, about “laying track” for more writing. And she writes about the characters she’s written. The character she writes about By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 01:34 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Sandra’s White House green These are beautiful colours on Sandra Oh. So beautiful. And I love how she looks in glasses. The design of that skirt though… Why did it have to be taffeta?!? By Lainey • Mar 11, 2016 09:30 am
