Spike Lee Intro for January 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, Variety is releasing its Directors on Directors series and the one I was most interested in was Spike Lee with Ryan Coogler – mostly because of their work, of course, and the way they have consistently challenged audiences at the movies – but also because it’s Variety, a publication By Lainey • Jan 08, 2026 10:22 am
Style Too much fashion Paris Fashion Week begins today, so you know what that means—all the famous people are in Paris. Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Pharrell, and Ana de Armas were in Paris over the weekend for pre-game activities, including a dinner hosted by Louis Vuitton. Paris Fashion Week actually overlaps with the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike + Denzel, together again Spike Lee and Denzel Washington enjoy one of the richest collaborations in American cinema. Together they have made a masterpiece (Malcolm X), a couple very good films (Mo’ Better Blues, He Got Game), and one good film that is VERY fun, Inside Man (which I love). Inside Man came out By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 02:49 pm
Cannes 2025 Rihanna and Rocky: A Cannes “Umbrella” Sorry, sorry, can’t help myself. It’s one of her most biggest, most enduring hits. “You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh eh eh, under my umbrella…” And Rihanna and Rocky were just in Cannes last night under an umbrella at the premiere of Spike Lee’s By Lainey • May 20, 2025 10:40 am
Theatre Nerd The Stars come out for Othello The new staging of Othello, the first on Broadway since 1982, set a box office record for a play in previews. They’re coming for Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Shakespeare, probably in that order. Some tickets are going for as much as US$920 – which shouldn’t be a By Lainey • Mar 24, 2025 11:00 am
Jock Smut The chaotic pre-Olympics party I’m trying to remember if the Olympics have ever been such an A-list celebrity parade before, or if it’s happening this year because the Games are in Paris, a major world fashion and culture capital, which is drawing a contingent of celebrities who might otherwise not be at By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 10:04 am
Cannes 2021 Intro for July 19, 2021 Dear Gossips, The way it works, typically, at the major film festivals, the hype and buzz are frontloaded. To be clear, I’m not talking about the quality of the projects, and this is no disrespect to the films and the filmmakers showcased towards the end of a film festival, By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 09:09 am
Cannes 2021 Intro for July 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, Like so many other events, the Cannes Film Festival didn’t happen last year. Which means that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner, is still the reigning Palme d’Or film, at least for another ten days until this year’s Palme d’Or By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 08:52 am
Style Spike, Mati, Maggie, Marion, Adam: Cannes is Back If the theme of yesterday’s postings was celebrity love, today the theme appears to be: back. The Clooneys are back in Lake Como. The stars are back in Paris for Haute Couture week in the front row. And Cannes is happening, a few weeks later than usual, and after By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscars 2021: Return of the Snubs I generally don’t like using the word “snub” to describe awards nominations because frequently it is not a case of willful exclusion but there being too many worthy films to include when there are a limited number of nominations to hand out. But THIS year? When MANK is the By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2021 The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue has a spectacular but controversial past, much like Hollywood itself. To be honest, there are some classic VF Hollywood issues that I look back on and still get excited about. Like certain ones from the 90s featuring people who would become Mega Celebrities – who, of By Lainey • Feb 23, 2021 01:01 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 13, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced yesterday that Satchel and Jackson Lee are the 2021 Golden Globe Awards Ambassadors. Their father is Spike Lee. It is the first time that two siblings of colour have been named the show’s ambassadors and in their roles, they will also By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is an old-man movie the same way The Irishman is Martin Scorsese’s old-man movie, in that this is only a movie Lee could make now, after thirty years of filmmaking, when he has gained the perspective to look back and see cycles repeating By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 11:58 am
BFFs Forensic Gossip Files: Julia Roberts at Denzel Washington’s tribute Denzel Washington was honored last night with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. As one of the most popular and beloved figures in the industry, basically everyone showed up for him. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Cicely Tyson, Spike Lee, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Jerry Bruckheimer, Mahershala Ali, Jamie Foxx, Frances By Sarah • Jun 07, 2019 02:43 pm
Oscars 2019 Do The Right Thing, Oscars The Oscars did right by Spike Lee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. As we’ve established, it did not “do the right thing” in its choice for Best Picture. The most outspoken critic of Green Book’s win was Spike himself, who many outlets are reporting “stormed out” of By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 05:21 am
Royals Prince Harry and Spike Lee When I wrote the other day about Prince William and Catherine at the BAFTAs, I wondered what Spike Lee said to William during the meet and greet. As mentioned in that post, Spike got pretty animated when Will approached him. And now he’s revealed what they talked about: Prince By Lainey • Feb 13, 2019 12:11 pm
