Royals A Humbled Prince William and a Defiant Prince Andrew You’d think, after the public relations mess of Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour last week of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas, that the British royals would be trying to pivot this week and avoid any more negative headlines, especially on the occasion of the late Prince Philip’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 11:09 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Top Reads Kate and Jason: An Oscars Romance?! Before the Oscars, there was all kinds of speculation about whether or not Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet were back together, even though she hasn’t joined him at any recent events, including on Sunday when he attended the Oscars solo. But Jason was actually asked about it there, and By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 10:30 am
Oscars 2022 Liza and Gaga: A Sweet End to a Messy Night And that’s how we’ll wrap it up too – like the Oscars, after a mess of a night, the show concluded on love and joy: CODA won Best Picture and Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga made the announcement. Maybe it’s because I saw the Liza and Gaga moment By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 02:30 pm
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
TV Updates Simone Ashley: The New Bridgerton Breakout Hello are you there? Or are you mainlining Bridgerton? I know season two just dropped today on Netflix but in some parts of the world, today is over halfway over and it’s eight episodes, eight hours, it’s very possible that some of you are done. I say this By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 12:38 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate: At Least Stick the Dismount? Prince William and Kate Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas was supposed to be a “charm offensive”, the term used to describe these trips when British royals go abroad and hypnotise the people with their big smiles and good manners. And for over a decade, that’s By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 11:45 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: Dropoff and Pickup Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were out yesterday, first dropping off his son, Samuel, at a lesson, running some errands in between, and then picking his son up again. Samuel, you’ll recall, was with Ben and JLo’s daughter, Emme, at the iHeartRadio Music Awards the other night when By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 10:42 am
Royals Will and Kate: The Improv Tour Yesterday, Wednesday, was the midpoint of Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. As we have seen, it is not going the way they imagined – not in their wildest imaginations, clearly, did they think it would go down this way. At this point, the By Lainey • Mar 24, 2022 12:52 pm
Royals Meghan Markle’s Archetypes Well this is interesting timing… Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed a multi-year deal with Spotify through their company Archewell last year to produce podcasts on the service. Last week Page Six reported that Meghan’s first pod would be coming this summer and today they made the announcement – the By Lainey • Mar 24, 2022 10:29 am
Business of Hollywood Disney’s troubles aren’t over It has been a bad month for Disney. Their employees are in open revolt over the company’s lackluster response to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, and now they have stars of high-profile projects taking them out like the trash on the red carpet, too. But wait, there’ By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:03 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate’s Tour: A Royal Mess Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas is not going the way they and the royal team had hoped. The hope, of course, was that this would be all sunshine and smiles and cute photo opportunities, and some good outfits. Definitely no controversy. Well, By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 11:29 am
Music Jennifer Lopez: Icon There’s no debate here, right? Jennifer Lopez has been at this for 30 years – like non-f-cking-stop. Of course she’s an icon. Based on one moment alone (the fact that Google image search was created because of her) she’d be an icon but, of course, there are SO By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock: A Two Dress Night Sandra Bullock at the premiere of The Lost City last night. The movie opens on Friday and currently has an 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah’s review will be posted later this week but I’m optimistic because she texted me after the screening to say it was By Lainey • Mar 22, 2022 11:14 am
Top Reads Hoyeon Jung: a twin? Squid Game was represented at the Producers Guild Awards this weekend by showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk, producer Kim Ji-yeon, and star Hoyeon Jung. Since the series has been such a massive success, Netflix wants a second season, but Hwang said at the event that he hasn’t even started writing. Well By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 01:28 pm
