Music Chinese Taylor Swift This post is supposed to be about Taylor Swift’s new video. In the coming weeks and probably months, because reputation is COMING, there will probably be a lot of posts a lot of places about Taylor Swift’s new videos. And everyone will have to find new ways to By Lainey • Oct 27, 2017 09:32 am
Top Reads JT at the baseball game Games 1 and 2 of the World Series happened in Los Angeles this week as the Dodgers are playing the Houston Astros for the championship. There were a lot of celebrities in the crowd last night – among them Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. Amazingly he managed to stay in his By Lainey • Oct 26, 2017 11:49 am
Top Reads Gab and Lena get real Lena Dunham makes a point to let us know that she and Gabrielle Union are close enough that she calls her “Gab” in a new piece for Lenny Letter. I can’t decide if this tidbit is annoying or charming. That’s how I feel about Lena Dunham most days. By Kathleen • Oct 24, 2017 08:59 am
Gross Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl It’s official. Justin Timberlake will headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. I’ve written about this already – twice. I wrote about it when the rumours first started back in August and again a month later when it was reported that JT was in final negotiations. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 09:27 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Gorgeous I love the word gorgeous. It starts off aggressive, then becomes ripe and soft, ending on a hiss. Which means it can be whatever it wants to be – obscene, sly, but also alluring, and suggestive. Gorgeous is a great word. And now I’m worried Taylor Swift has ruined it. By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:44 am
Top Reads Lupita too Lupita Nyong’o has a Harvey Weinstein story too. She shared with the New York Times yesterday. As gross usual, there was a massage request. It did not happen at a hotel. Instead, Harvey invited Lupita to his home, and while his children were in another room watching a movie, By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:25 am
Relationship Assumption Happy Sandy and Bryan There’s not a lot to say here. You’ve probably already seen these photos, if you live online, but I wanted to buy them anyway. Because it’s been a while since we’ve seen Sandra Bullock with Bryan Randall. But they’re together, they’ve been together, and By Lainey • Oct 19, 2017 03:02 pm
Douchebags The Weinstein web keeps growing Why is there a Weinstein scandal update every five minutes? Because the Weinsteins, mainly Harvey and now Bob, have over the last 30 years, been involved in every corner of the celebrity ecosystem and many adjacent ecosystems. All those Venn diagrams are intersected and infected. Variety reported yesterday that Amanda By Lainey • Oct 18, 2017 11:13 am
BFFs Kristen Stewart: on many levels Last Friday Variety hosted a Power Of Women luncheon in Hollywood. Last night it was the ELLE Women In Hollywood event. The universe’s sense of timing sometimes can’t be explained. The ELLE event was attended by some of the most successful actresses in the business, many of them By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 02:45 pm
Top Reads Lauren Holly too Lauren Holly has been one of the most frequent guest-hosts on The Social since we started in 2013. She told us a few years ago at dinner one night about her Harvey Weinstein experience. As she said on The Social yesterday, her experience is not unlike so many others By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:58 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein isn’t the only As Hollywood continues to process the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a few people are now looking ahead, wondering about next steps. Because, of course, Harvey was enabled. And he would not be the only predator operating within and exploiting a system that protects the powerful. In a column By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:38 am
Top Reads The War of the Weinsteins More and more people are coming forward to share their accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s predation. The Academy voted this weekend to cancel his membership and France is taking away his Legion of Honour and police in London and New York are investigating him for sexual abuse. Harvey meanwhile may By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 09:01 am
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck with Jennifer Garner at the end of his bad week Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner stepped out with their kids yesterday for ice cream. It’s been a minute since Ben and Jen have been photographed together public. I just did a quick search through a couple of photo agencies and the last shots I’m picking up are from By Lainey • Oct 13, 2017 12:01 pm
Top Reads Rose McGowan goes after the power Rose McGowan was reinstated on Twitter yesterday after being suspended for including a phone number in one of her tweets. Seems the break only strengthened her resolve. Because she came back to Twitter to blast Amazon, appealing directly to Jeff Bezos. In a series of tweets, Rose reveals that she By Lainey • Oct 13, 2017 10:02 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Ben Affleck lost his good luck charm I was raised in a home that’s all about feng shui and good luck energy. Every year, my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, provides predictions and readings for this site for every sign under the Chinese zodiac: what those born in the Year of the Monkey should avoid, if By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 11:44 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan suspended by Twitter Rose McGowan, who just yesterday defended Lindsay Lohan after Lindsay defended Harvey Weinstein, urging people to consider that Lindsay was shaped by the system that we are all interrogating now, has been the most visible and vocal critic of Harvey Weinstein, not just over the last week, but over the By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 09:47 am
