Top Reads Brad Pitt gets away Brad Pitt has been making headlines all week – and even with the assist from major entertainment outlets, they’re not the kind of headlines he and his PR team would be happy with. Let’s start with Make It Right, Brad’s foundation. Make It Right made Brad Pitt look By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry and Olivia’s New York premiere Harry Styles played two shows in Toronto earlier this week, and it was kind of a spectacle – and I’m not talking about the concerts (although, of course his performances were amazing), but about the city’s reaction to him being in town. Downtown was buzzing and they were doing By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 10:00 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt: Media and PR connections As I wrote in my previous post today about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , it’s been interesting following the media coverage and specifically how Brad Pitt’s position is being presented. On that note, this is what Omid Scobie, who was working at Wenner Media’s Us Weekly when By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 02:29 pm
Media Manipulation Himpathy for Brad Pitt Over the last few days, since Puck News reported an update on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed anonymously by Jane Doe (aka Angelina Jolie) against the FBI, I’ve been wondering how the mainstream media and major entertainment outlets would handle the situation. Both Angelina and Brad Pitt By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 11:53 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and the FBI Back in April, Politico reported (via TMZ) that a woman referred to as Jane Doe filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the FBI to hand over documents related to a domestic violence investigation that happened when she and her children were travelling on a private plane in 2016. By Lainey • Aug 16, 2022 10:47 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Bennifer and a Milestone Birthday As Sarah mentioned in What Else? on Friday, last week Page Six, which is the New York Post’s gossip column, published a report about how Ben Affleck was uncomfortable with the Bennifer spectacle in Paris a few weeks ago when he and Jennifer Lopez were there on their familymoon By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 12:16 pm
Music Adele Explains Adele covers the September issue of ELLE, which is a big get for the magazine. And for Adele, the timing is perfect…because Adele is on a reset right now having recently announced her new Las Vegas residency dates so we’re watching a superstar do the work of turning By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller emerges as The Flash’s future is questioned One of the major pop culture narratives of summer 2022 is “where in the world is Ezra Miller”, as headlines out of Hawaii in the spring painted an image of an increasingly troubled star going through…something…in the public eye. But then Miller disappeared, while stories about their behavior By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 10:37 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Another Rihanna Rumour I guess it’s about that time… The rumour started earlier this week: people think there might be new Rihanna music coming. Because a song called “Righteous” has been registered and now there’s speculation, again, that she might be releasing a single soon ahead of her ninth album, commonly By Lainey • Aug 12, 2022 09:54 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, Spelman Mom A couple of weeks ago, Angelina Jolie was seen with daughter Zahara at a Spelman/Morehouse welcome event doing the electric slide and then she herself posted on Instagram in support of HBCUs to confirm that Z would be heading to Spelman. College and university schedules always confuse me. Here By Lainey • Aug 11, 2022 11:00 am
Douchebags Brad Pitt’s Sh-t List Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who currently stars in Bullet Train with Brad Pitt, made headlines this week when he revealed that Brad has a “sh-t list” of people he won’t work with. Aaron told reporters at a press conference at the Locarno Film Festival that: “[Brad] is in a new chapter By Lainey • Aug 10, 2022 10:37 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise, the Musical Remember back in the spring of 2020, when we were all shellshocked from lockdown? I don’t want to remember it either but this is about context, and at the time, with movies being pulled from theatres and everyone in Hollywood trying to figure out what the f-ck to do By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 12:56 pm
Sports Serena’s Vogue Farewell It used to be that the September issue was the most important issue of the year in magazine publishing. I haven’t checked the stats on whether or not this is still the case but the reputation of the September issue is intact. And the September issue for American Vogue By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 11:11 am
Music Beyoncé: The Queens Weekend I got home early enough on Friday afternoon to take a nap before working out and heading to dinner with friends. Sleeping is my superpower – I can nap anywhere, anytime, and for a long ass period of time. I often wake up from a nap to find out that it’ By Lainey • Aug 08, 2022 12:02 pm
Sports Lewis Hamilton: F1’s Top Gun This will likely be the headline – or maybe it’s already a headline as more and more people read the piece; Lewis Hamilton covers the new issue of Vanity Fair and reveals that he was almost in Top Gun: Maverick, the number one movie of 2022. Lewis tells writer Chris By Lainey • Aug 08, 2022 10:28 am
Music Beyoncé is a tease It’s been a week since RENAISSANCE – how are we all doing? Has she been f-cking up your nights? For me it’s been night and day. RENAISSANCE is my soundtrack to everything right now. It’s in the car to and from work. It’s in the car on By Lainey • Aug 05, 2022 11:52 am
