Music Taylor Swift’s reputation I’ve been wondering for a few weeks now, on a few occasions, since the first four songs released off reputation haven’t been all that strong, whether or not Taylor Swift was banking the good sh-t for the album release. And it turns out she was. Or at By Lainey • Nov 10, 2017 09:28 am
Music Taylor Swift is not an underdog As expected, Taylor Swift won Song Of The Year for Better Man last night at the CMAs. She wrote the song for Little Big Town. It was obvious the minute Karlie Kloss came out on stage as one of the presenters. No matter how you feel about her, what’s By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deleting Kevin Spacey As the allegations against Kevin Spacey have mounted, companies affiliated with him have started cutting ties. Netflix is moving forward without him in what is now House of Cards' final season, and they dumped a biopic of Gore Vidal in which he was set to star. And now, in By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 11:30 am
Top Reads Mimi too? Earlier this week, it was announced that Stella Bulochnikov, who’s been Mariah Carey’s manager for a couple of years now, was stepping down from the “day-to-day management” of Mimi’s career. So they broke up. Two days later, TMZ reports that Mimi’s being accused of By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 10:10 am
Music Taylor Swift redirects Most headlines about Taylor Swift yesterday, just three days before the release of reputation, were about how she tried to legally intimidate a blogger and ended up getting scolded by the ACLU. As Spencer Kornhaber wrote yesterday for The Atlantic, this was a consequence of her “anti-PR campaign”. Taylor By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:47 am
Music Taylor Swift: release week drama Taylor Swift’s new album, reputation, is out on Friday. So far she’s released four songs. I’m not super into any of them. But she’s already pre-sold 400,000 units of the album, and it’s Target’s biggest music pre-sale of all time. As By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:09 am
Douchebags Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, and more shady connections I briefly considered titling this post “The Daily Sexual Harassment Roundup”. But I worried that that would seem insensitive. And I don’t want to be insensitive. I want to make a point that this is what’s happening now: that the list of sexual harassers and predators in Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck wants to be “part of the solution” Sarah just posted about the imminent release of Justice League and how it might do at the box office after Thor just became everyone’s favourite Avenger. Justice League, of course, is DC’s version of the Avengers. And Batman is the sort of leader of the Justice League. At By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor and Loki on set The interminable Avengers shoot continues, and as Thor: Ragnarok opens in theaters, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston are on set with RDJ (for what looks like a flashback to the events of The Avengers). Lainey pointed out this will be a fun week at work for Hemsworth, who gets to By Sarah • Nov 03, 2017 10:52 am
Music Taylor Swift is so in love As promised, Taylor Swift released another song, the fourth, from her upcoming reputation. Gorgeous was a crush song about Joe Alwyn. Call It What You Want is straight up a love song about Joe Alwyn. Taylor Swift is so in love. And what she’s doing with her love is By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 09:28 am
Relationship Assumption Teen love forever Yesterday Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber went for a bike ride with the paps. Last night, JB went to play hockey. And Selena showed up at the rink to watch. It’s just like high school. It’s teen love forever. When they left, Selena was wearing JB’s jersey. By Lainey • Nov 02, 2017 10:19 am
Relationship Assumption Miley & Liam at their beach Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth fell in love while filming The Last Song in Savannah, Georgia. They kissed on the beach on Tybee Island. Let’s revisit those scenes. They look so young there, right!? Liam has been shooting a movie there and Miley visited him a couple of days By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 04:12 pm
Relationship Assumption Selena & Justin’s romantic bike ride As I posted earlier, every day this week Selena Gomez has been going for a bike ride. And every day she’s been papped. Today she also went for a bike ride. And Justin Bieber was with her. Again, neither of them are new at this. If she’s been By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 03:37 pm
Relationship Assumption J-Rod: turtlenecks and first date sex The December issue of Vanity Fair. Graydon Carter’s final issue as the editor of the magazine. And on the cover: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. J-Rod. Out of two often surreal lives, @JLo and @ARod are managing to make one wonderfully real life. He says, "We are By Lainey • Oct 31, 2017 09:36 am
Break Ups Selena & Abel are over Instagram always knows. As Kathleen posted earlier today, after Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were seen having breakfast together on Sunday morning (let’s come back to this in a minute), The Weeknd started unfollowing all of her friends and family. He even unfollowed her at one point, before following By Lainey • Oct 30, 2017 03:25 pm
Douchebags Kevin Spacey’s bullsh-t apology Over the last three weeks, almost every day, more women have come forward to share their stories about how Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and or abused them. Annabella Sciorra and Daryl Hannah are the latest to speak with Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker. If it’s not Harvey Weinstein, By Lainey • Oct 30, 2017 10:45 am
