Newsletter Tuesday, May 17, 2016

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Tuesday, May 17, 2016 [Intro for May 17, 2016] [Kate Moss attends the 'Loving' premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2016 in Cannes, France] Dear Gossips, The May issue of [Vanity Fair] was dedicated to sisters – I wrote about it [here] in reference and comparison to Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee Radziwill and Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. Last night I read a great article about the Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, in [The Atlantic]. Studying the Brontes is practically its own academic degree and business, with new interpretations happening all the time. The Atlantic essay posits that while Bronte intellect may have been underserved by the limitations of their time – with few opportunities to contribute beyond house chores and childcare – this reality not only provided them with the material, but also the shelter to analyse their observations and actually produce and perfect their work … which is also what many of their characters did: hiding in domesticity. Like Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights? I think I might have to re-read it with this perspective. [Click here] for the piece in The Atlantic. Speaking of sisters, Kate Moss and her sister Lottie were both in Cannes last night and both in red. I hate this look on Kate. I hate the boring dress. I hate the boring hair. It’s a dress and hair that could be on anyone. And I don’t understand why THE Kate Moss is wearing a dress and hair that could be on anyone. Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:07 PM [Smutty Tingles] Sorry to cut out early today, not feeling so great. Back tomorrow on regular blog schedule. Apologies for the inconvenience and interruption to your gossip schedule, but check out my gossip friends below. And this week’s Sasha Answers podcast is about when friends treat you like the help and we may have helped ourselves in service of a question about weed. [Click here] to listen. Will the parenthood whitewash work on these two? ([Dlisted]) My crush on Adam Driver is still quite healthy ([Just Jared]) Listen to Angelina Jolie’s wonderful speech ([Cele|bitchy]) Does this mean he won’t cheat anymore? ([TooFab]) Is this big ring on Gwen from Blake? ([Celeb Dirty Laundry]) Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie kissing ([Pop Sugar]) Jessica Alba in a boring red dress ([Popoholic]) Lenny Kravitz shops without his shirt on ([TMZ]) Riley Keough in Gucci at Cannes ([Go Fug Yourself]) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:01 PM [Kristen Stewart’s happy Cannes] [Kristen Stewart at the photo call of 'Personal Shopper' at the 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2016 in Cannes, France] I wrote yesterday that Kristen Stewart seems like she’s having [so much fun] in Cannes. They seem to love her in France. And she’s loving them back. Look at her today at the photo call for Personal Shopper. She’s playing for the cameras. Not pouting…but playing! This is Kristen Stewart supporting her film, showing up for her film. Sharing her personality for her film. In her way. Which isn’t goofy or extra, not a compromise of who she is but it’s still engaging, even in still photographs she looks engaged. And so confident. Personal Shopper has received mixed reviews. But almost everyone is singling out Kristen for her performance. A few of my friends there covering the festival called it the best of her career. So all parts of her life are running smooth. On the personal side, Alicia Cargile, as you know, has joined her in Cannes and they were out at a party together last night, making it obvious what’s between them. Can we talk about this little goldy Chanel though? With the drawstring waist?! Love it so much. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:32 PM [Where is Justin Timberlake’s Sexy?] [Justin Timberlake performs his new single 'Can't Stop The Feeling' at the Ericsson Globe on May 14, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden] Last week, Lainey wrote about how Justin Timberlake is trolling for an Oscar with his new song [Can’t Stop The Feeling]. Well, the video came out last night and they really aren’t being subtle about ripping off Happy now, are they? The song is catchy as hell and I’m trying to love it. I am really, truly trying to love this song but I can’t. The video has officially made it impossible for me to get down with Can’t Stop The Feeling. See for yourself and meet me on the other side. We all know how Lainey feels about Justin Timberlake. JT is one of the few things she and I disagree on. I grew up with *NSYNC. Justin was my teenage dream. I decorated my elementary school agendas with *NSYNC posters from J-14 magazine. I plastered his shirtless Rolling Stone cover in my high school locker. Despite all the stories of his self-indulgent, dick-ish tendencies and the unforgiveable way he treated Janet during Nipplegate, I am usually always here for JT. No matter what. I’ll be the first to admit I’ve had on JT blinders for years. I was still out here for Justin during the hot mess that was The 20/20 Experience parts 1 and 2. I’ve seen him in concert 6 times. The JT/Jay Z tour was my 14 year-old self’s dream come true. My best friend Liz has really embarrassing videos of me crying during Until the End of Time. In first year university, I waited outside the Roy Thompson Hall theatre in Toronto during TIFF for 4 hours just to see Justin walk his first movie red carpet. It’s OK, you can judge me. I was that fangirl. I need you to understand how much I love Justin before I rip apart the embarrassment that is Can’t Stop the Feeling, because this isn’t easy for me. I’m starting to think the only thing holding Justin and me together is nostalgia. You know that friend who has a baby and completely loses their sense of self, breaks out their mom jeans and starts saying things like “aw, shucks” and “gosh, darn it!” like the baby stole her brain and replaced it with June Cleaver’s? This is Justin Timberlake. Guys, Justin used to be one of the best dancers in music. He used to make me feel all the things in my lower regions when he danced. Now, he’s doing a dad version of the robot in an outfit JC Chasez would have looked at it in 2002 and said, “Nah.” Seriously, what is this budget MJ impersonation? What is this video? What is life? My heart is breaking. At least Happy was cool. Sure, it became the song you associated with bad weddings or a root canal but when it first came out, it was cool as f-ck. Pharrell is seven years older than Justin and he still oozes effortless charisma and for lack of a better word, swag. Where is Justin’s swag? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO GET JUSTIN TIMBERAKE’S SEXY BACK? If I wanted to watch white people—with some well-placed token minorities—dancing poorly, I’d watch a Kelly Clarkson video (no disrespect to Kelly). When did Justin Timberlake become pop R&B’s Josh Groban (no disrespect to Josh Groban)? This is Justin’s first single to debut at [#1 on the Billboard charts]. The f-ck? This corny sh-t over Sexyback? Over My Love? Over What Goes Around…? OVER CRY ME A RIVER? I can’t deal. If Justin loves anything more than attention, it’s being number one. He’s probably going to churn out a whole album of Can’t Stop the Feeling knockoffs (Lainey: which is like imitation Bruno Mars). This makes me even angrier because it is a beautiful time to be a fan of mainstream music. Recently, the charts have been dominated by hits from Rihanna, Drake, Adele, Beyoncé and JT’s successor Justin Bieber. If Justin Timberlake doesn’t want to turn into the old guy who has to rap with Jimmy Fallon and share diaper anecdotes to stay relevant, he’s got to come with a lot better than this. Attached - JT performing in Stockholm on the weekend. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:22 PM [Adrien Brody has no time for “fodder”] [Adrien Brody attends the 'Manhattan Night' New York screening on May 16, 2016 in New York, New York] [Adrien Brody] is surprisingly not in Cannes (yet) getting off a yacht in a douche-brown [leather suit]. Nor is he at an art show turning you on with his awesome style. Last night Adrien was in New York at the premiere of Manhattan Night and to promote the film he went on Jenny McCarthy’s Sirius radio show, Dirty, Sexy, Funny with Jenny McCarthy, where he was asked about art, life, and scandal, having worked with both Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. "Life is very complicated," Brody, 43, said. "I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same. It's an artistic pursuit, and Polanski for instance had a very complicated and difficult life. It would be unfair of me to delve into something as complicated as the past that was brought up in the media." Should art exist independent of life? "Well, to a certain extent. I mean, again, people make mistakes in lives." And what of the media coverage of Bill Cosby and Woody Allen? "I don't even read about these things, to be honest," Brody said. "I choose not to indulge this kind of fodder." He added, "I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness. Of course it's horrible what comes out sometimes, and people have done things in their lives that may be inexcusable, but it's not something to focus on." These things. Fodder. Is that what it is? Over 40 women – and counting – drugged and raped by a man in power and bullied into silence, and a daughter who alleges that her father sexually abused her… All of that waved away by Adrien Brody because we shouldn’t focus on it. And, well, isn’t that why victims aren’t heard in the first place? [Source] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:57 PM [Working with auteurs made Chloe Sevigny hate directors] [Chloe Sevigny attends the 'Paterson' premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2016 in Cannes, France] [Chloe Sevigny] is doing the rounds for her new movie, Love & Friendship, and while promoting it she gave an interview to The Guardian in which she says that working with auteurs has given her “a total disdain for directors” that is “very strong, very deep”. “Auteur” is one of those words—like “gritty”—that has almost lost all meaning because of overuse. Originally it described filmmakers who managed to put a singular stamp on works produced in the restrictive Old Hollywood studio system, like Howard Hawks and Orson Welles. Then for a minute it described visionaries like Jean Renoir and Francis Ford Coppola, people reimagining the boundaries and limits of film and producing singular visions out of it. Now it’s just any director you can identify by a signature move—Michael Bay and his 360-degree pans, or Paul Greengrass and shaky cam. Yet the more that word has gotten tossed around, the more revered auteurs have become. Directors with “vision” get away with a ton of bad behavior—look no further than Alejandro González Iñárritu and the notoriously sh*tty experience of shooting The Revenant. There was no f*cking reason for that production to be such a nightmare, except that AIG was chasing his vision and damn the consequences—and he’s REALLY lucky there weren’t any serious consequences. What Sevigny is getting at, though, is the sort of toxic atmosphere that can—not always, but more than anyone likes to think about—arise on a set run by an unchecked director. (The writer of the article, Xan Brooks, calls them “tinpot dictators”.) Duana [recently referred] to Woody Allen’s treatment of Kristen Stewart on Café Society as “negging”, but honestly, that’s mild, and actors are rarely the worst treated people on a set. If Allen is treating his leading lady that way, imagine how he’s treating the fifth assistant on the production staff who might happen to be a twenty-two-year-old nobody fresh out of film school, excited to have her first real job in the industry. (Here’s a [horror story] for you.) Sevigny’s comments expose the side of the women in film discussion we’re not really having. It’s not enough to create more opportunities for women in film—we also have to make film an industry that is welcoming to women, and all other minorities. One way we can do that is by not mistaking egomaniacal artists for auteurs. Being talented isn’t the same thing as being good at your job. Talented directors are plentiful, but good ones are rarer. (The best director I’ve seen up close was extremely patient and never lost his cool no matter what went wrong, and he was unfailingly kind to everyone on set. I’ve been cheerleading him pretty hard recently—Taika Waititi.) Another is to include dialogue about the working conditions on film sets and in production offices when we talk about obtaining equality in film. Equal pay and better representation are just part of the conversation—respectful, safe work environments is another. That tone is set by the director, the person charged with leading a staff of hundreds through a technically challenging job. But the way the system works now, you just have to cross your fingers and hope you’re working with one of the good ones, because there’s very little in the way of recourse for a bad situation on set. “Suck it up,” is the most common advice given, whether what you’re expected to “suck up” is mild verbal abuse or blatant, aggressive sexual harassment. And Sevigny must already be feeling a pinch from that system because she’s on Instagram making up to directors. [I ❤️ directors #pedroalmodovar] A photo posted by Chloe Sevigny (@chloessevigny) on May 17, 2016 at 8:13am PDT Good directors know it takes maximum effort from every single person, no matter how lowly, to accomplish their goal, and they don’t put their vision above their leadership. They don’t berate and belittle, they communicate. A good director is like an enthusiastic camp counselor, making sure everyone is having a good time while still sticking to a schedule and ensuring no one has drowned in the lake that day. It sounds like Chloe Sevigny has worked with a lot of talented directors, but maybe not so many good ones. [Source] Attached - Chloe in Cannes this week. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:32 PM [A Loving Oscar] [Jeff Nichols, Ruth Negga, and Joel Edgerton attend the 'Loving' red carpet during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2016 in Cannes, France] Yesterday in Cannes belonged to Loving, the film written and directed by Jeff Nichols that tells the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, who broke the law by getting married in 1958. How? Well she’s black and he’s white. And back then, it was illegal in Virginia. So they were supposed to go to prison unless they left their home state for 25 years. Which they refused to do, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court and the ruling that eventually decided that their love was legal. The film is not about the legal battle. Rather, the focus is on the actual love and this couple who wanted nothing more than to just love each other and NOT HAVE TO GO TO JAIL FOR IT. Critics are saying that it’s precisely this perspective that makes Loving so effective. Because when you meet Mildred and Richard sharing their lives together, it naturally makes the rest of it f-cking absurd. Loving premiered to great enthusiasm. And now, already, I know it’s early, but they’re making predictions. Loving has emerged as an early contender for Oscar consideration. And [Ruth Negga], who plays Mildred Loving, was already being asked about a Best Actress nomination. The Hollywood Reporter is calling her “[The Next Big Thing]”. The Telegraph called her performance “[place your Oscar bets tremendous]”. And she also happens to be the lead in Preacher, which Sarah is very excited about and previewed yesterday – [click here] for a refresher. So. Ruth Negga. Remember the name. We’ll be hearing it a LOT. Here’s the trailer for the HBO documentary about the Lovings in 2012: [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:03 PM [May 17, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs] “Happy Birthday to the boy who is happy to be alive everyday thus making all of us here happy to be on this ride with him. Happy Birthday to the kid who loves his puppy, takes care of neighborhood dogs. Happy Birthday to the boy who thinks Bil Ringinberg wrote, produced and sang 'It's too late to turn back time'. To quote a friend if you believe in re-incarnation and many lives until you get it right my Theo is on his 'victory lap'. Happy Birthday beautiful boy!” From Sharon. Posted at 2:12 PM [Privacy Policy] - [Unsubscribe]