Equality Issues Sandra Bullock’s Red Table Talk Look, I know that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are a LOT. Especially lately with all the revelations coming out from his book, and on top of the whole “entanglement” thing that they told us about last year. At the same time, we can also talk about the influence of By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 10:42 am
Royals The Right Honourable Robyn Rihanna Fenty Barbados officially broke up with the Queen yesterday and became the world’s newest republic. It was an amicable split as Prince Charles was there for the ceremony and was presented the Order of Freedom award by Dame Sandra Mason, now Barbados’s first president. A gracious way to end By Lainey • Nov 30, 2021 09:53 am
Gossip Nostalgia Bennifer’s Thanksgiving Warmth We already knew last week that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were both in LA for American Thanksgiving. It was just a matter of whether or not they’d give us a Bennifer Thanksgiving. And they did. Here are two sets of Bennifer out in LA, heading into a studio By Lainey • Nov 29, 2021 10:39 am
Top Reads Bennifer Thanksgiving Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez returned to LA together last Friday on a private jet from Vancouver where she’s been working on a movie . On Monday he was seen driving away from her place and yesterday he and his mother were out with his kids. JLo, meanwhile, went right By Lainey • Nov 25, 2021 11:55 am
Top Reads BTS returns to James Corden I remember just before the pandemic hit in North America, early 2020, when BTS did James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, how many people I heard from, both friends and strangers, because that was their introduction to the band that they’d heard or read me obsessing over for years, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield makes us cry Andrew Garfield is promoting tick, tick…BOOM!, now streaming on Netflix. Sarah’s review of the film was posted yesterday just in time for Thanksgiving television time. As Sarah wrote, Andrew gives an exuberant performance carrying the movie, and it’s why he’s contending for a Best Actor Oscar By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 09:38 am
Top Reads Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Gap Ahead of the release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up next month, Jennifer Lawrence covers the new issue of Vanity Fair, her first magazine profile in a long time. Over the last couple of years, almost every time I’ve posted about JLaw, I’ve written about her By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves: “Just trying to have a career” LOL at that quote, from Keanu Reeves’s new profile in Esquire, as part of the promotional push for the highly anticipated The Matrix Resurrections. This happens during the part of the article where it’s mentioned how much he works, how he went from shooting The Matrix to John By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 10:50 am
Relationship Assumption Jaden and Phoebe: one ends and another begins As Anastasia just posted, Shawn and Camila are no more, and Kaia Gerber and Jacob Elordi are no more. Young Hollywood love, however, isn’t running low. When one love ends, another possibility comes to take its place. Jaden Smith and Phoebe Dynevor are hanging out now. At the start By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 01:18 pm
Top Reads The AMAs of BTS Back in 2017, BTS performed for the first time on a North American award show. And it was at the American Music Awards. It is not an exaggeration to say that they blew the roof off the place – much to the surprise of the western music industry, including the celebrities By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 11:48 am
Music Bennifer before the AMAs Jennifer Lopez performed her new song “On My Way”, from the soundtrack to her upcoming movie Marry Me at the American Music Awards last night. Was she singing live? Um, that’s not what my ears were telling me. But also, I’m not sure it matters where JLo is By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 10:16 am
Royals Meghan and Ellen The Ellen DeGeneres Show is in its final season and so far, for a final season, there hasn’t been all that much buzz. And it’s showing in the ratings. The number one daytime talk show of fall 2021 is Live with Kelly and Ryan, by an enormous margin By Lainey • Nov 19, 2021 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga: How Lady Gaga became Lady Gucci Lady Gaga brought House of Gucci home last night at the New York premiere. As expected, she served full Gaga on the carpet in a black sheer halter Armani Privé dress wide a side-bow and severe hair and makeup, appropriate to the person she’s playing in the film: Patrizia By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 11:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Lady Gaga: Home for Gucci Tonight is the New York City premiere of House of Gucci and we’ve already seen Lady Gaga light it up on the UK red carpet and in Milan, but NYC is home for her. And, well, she’s been going all out to promote this film and her performance By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 01:56 pm
Music Taylor & Blake’s Brilliant Casting As I mentioned yesterday, my Taylor Swift post was written before the release of her video for “I Bet You Think About Me”, a song from the vault that was included on Red (Taylor’s Version), directed by Blake Lively and widely believed to be about Jake Gyllenhaal. Since almost By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 12:18 pm
Music Taylor, Blake, and Jake A project that started out with so much bitterness for Taylor Swift has become a celebration – a joyful, exuberant coronation of herself and her talent. It’s an extraordinary achievement, and exactly the right move and mood for someone who’s been as famous and successful as she has for By Lainey • Nov 15, 2021 11:14 am
