Last year, Demi Lovato tried and failed to make her pandering ode to seasonal same-sex flings the song of the summer. This year, she’s back with “Body Say,” a tracks she wrote and recorded “a couple weeks ago.”
After 14 years working as writer for People, Sara Hammel sent her resignation letter to Jess Cagle, the magazine’s editorial director, “and other top editors.” But this wasn’t the kind of formal goodbye email filled with empty thank you’s to her superiors. No, no. Hammel chose to do something a little more incendiary…
Olivia de Havilland, legendary star of classics like Gone With the Wind and (my personal favorite) Lady In a Cage, was born on this day in 1916. The newly minted centenarian has called three continents her home (she was born in Japan), lived through two world wars, had two husbands, and won two Oscars.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have spent the year since announcing their divorce disappointing us all by staying mostly mum about the matter and—in the rare instances they do discuss it—expressing their deep respect and love for each other. They even managed to squash the nanny scandal before she could tell all!…
Dame Judi Dench, my 81-year-old mother and life coach, just got her first tattoo. The Telegraph reports it was “a birthday gift from her actress daughter,” Finty Williams, whom Dench said is “wonderful with surprises.”
Calum McSwiggan. Say it with me, now: Calum McSwiggan. It’s a fun name—Calllummm McSwigggggannnn—but I’m hoping this post marks the last time I ever have to write about him because his recent scandal has gone from a semi-satisfying bit of schadenfreude to a bleak snapshot of a very particular slice of popular culture.
Since releasing The New World 11 years ago, reclusive director Terrence Malick has made three over stylized movies about middle aged white men working through some major personal shit. I only saw one of them (The Tree of Life), but hated it so much (all but the scenes with my close personal friend Jessica Chastain)…
Because I am a masochist, I used to watch the aimless, Starbucks-drenched trainwreck that is Morning Joe every morning. After waking up, I would let the resentful squawking between Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Giest (whom I otherwise love), and whatever poor soul they convinced to join them provide a…
All around the world, pretty girls! Including inside Iggy Azalea’s home! Even when she isn’t there! In a series of tweets posted early Thursday morning, the recently single Azalea finally explained why she dumped professional question mark Nick Young.
A Los Angeles landmark, a grainy photo, two named sponsors, zero named comedians, and a missing “S.” That, my friends, is all it takes to produce a bleak piece of cultural commentary. Stay dry, ladies! Choose Cecret!
Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we learn from our mistakes and return to the traditional format after a well-intentioned though poorly executed attempt at a tabloid Q&A. This week, Mila Kunis is pregnant with twins, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are THIS close to getting a divorce, and JonBenet Ramsey is incapable of…
It’s not often that I get the chance to begin a Dirt Bag with the scandalous story about a gay YouTube star who was caught faking a hate crime in West Hollywood after VidCon, but here we are.
The folks at Flavorwire called it “a raw, merciless portrait of human hunger.” The Daily Mail called it “cringey.” But I call it foreshadowing. If I’d been a Sydney resident in the mid 90s and seen Cate Blanchett appear on my TV screen asking a 3,000-year-old Australian genie for a magical carton of Tim Tams, I’d have…
The American Time Use Survey (or ATUS) is a yearly report conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor that examines “the average amount of time per day in 2015 that individuals worked, did household activities, and engaged in leisure and sports activities.” The results for 2015 were released this week, and—based on the…
Though this week’s episode of KUWTK documented just how furious Rob’s sisters and mother were after learning about his engagement to Blac Chyna, the Kardashians would like you to know things are all good. No, scratch that. They’re astounding.
This is a story in three acts.
Three years after leaving Scientology—and just eight months after releasing a memoir about her departure—Leah Remini is “shooting” a television series about the church and how it destroys families.
I watch Game of Thrones. There, I said it. I watch that dumb, awful show every single stupid Sunday night because I’ve invested so many hours of my life that—at this point—I can’t very well back out now. I generally watch the first few minutes focused on my meal (I don’t take my first bite until the credits have…
While promoting The Shallows, her (surprisingly) thrilling shark attack movie, Blake Lively was asked by People’s Jess Cagle about the potential for a second sequel to 2005's hit The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. “There’s a strong chance there might be a third,” Lively said, adding to rumors that have been around…
Just weeks after her whirlwind romance with Tom Hiddleston began on the shores of Rhode Island, Taylor Swift has finally completed her goal of meeting everyone in England.
