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Dear Gossips, Probably only Canadians are celebrating how majorly Canadian the Emmys were last night

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Monday, September 18, 2017 [Intro for September 18, 2017]( [Margaret Atwood attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Dear Gossips, Probably only Canadians are celebrating how majorly Canadian the Emmys were last night. Or…maybe not. Here’s what Duana wondered about last night at the end of the show: “The Emmys biggest winners were intrinsically tied to Canadians – Jean-Marc Vallée for Big Little Lies and Margaret Atwood for The Handmaid’s Tale. And Tatiana Maslany presented one of the biggest awards of the night to Elisabeth Moss for The Handmaid’s Tale which was shot in Toronto. Are they household names in Canada though?” Do we, in Canada, celebrate our talent…enough? Margaret Atwood could have definitely been celebrated a lot more – both here in Canada and at the Emmys. How many times was she shouted out on stage? And they couldn’t put a camera on her until she came to them, at the end, when the series based on the book she wrote over 30 years ago was named the Outstanding Drama. She brought her purse up with her! Here’s to the Canadian Emmys. And here’s to all the fights we’re about to have over the Emmys. Duana, Kathleen, and I have been at it all night and Sarah’s coming in for a cameo too. As always, please tweet us and email us and yell at us – about the dresses, about the sketches, the speeches, and… Ben Affleck. We were fighting each other too, because all of us wanted to write the Shailene Woodley post for a 3am eyeroll. The site was heavy on Friday so if you missed any content there, please scroll back to get caught up. The site will be very, very heavy today so if you’re joining us late, please also scroll back for every single post. We so appreciate that you love award shows as much as we do. And we are grateful for your patience in how we cover award shows, with dedicated single posts that might take a lot longer but award show gossip and fashion deserves a full close-up, goddamn it! On that note, thanks for visiting us, today and every day. Let’s begin! Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 6:38 AM [What Else?]( Thanks for joining us today for our Emmy wrap-up and for your emails and your tweets. Please keep sending us your thoughts! We’ll be back tomorrow with regular non-Emmy gossip on regular gossip schedule. Remember when Kevin Hart was caught at the witching hour in Miami in a car with an attractive woman outside a hotel? Afterwards he blamed the media for exaggerating the situation. For making up stories. Because celebrities are so unfairly put upon. And now? Now it’s his bank account on the line. [Now he’s offering a public apology](. Now he’s only human, imperfect. In another month we’ll be hearing again about how the media lies. (Dlisted) You know I would never be mad at [more Mimi, more Mimi TV](. But only if it means that, long-term, it works for Mimi. Only if Mimi is well. And…. well… I’m not sure this is what’s happening. I’m worried about our Mimi. Mimi hasn’t really taken a break – like a Mimi standard break, not a real person break, because her entire life is a real person break – since it ended with James Packer. There was a lot of bank to make up, I understand. But the butterfly, I can feel her. She’s tired. (Jezebel) I posted earlier about Allison Janney and Anna Faris. The Emmys were Anna’s first major award show since she separated from Chris Pratt. The paps ran into Chris on Emmy Sunday. [He gave a very conscious uncoupling response](. And is still one of her best publicists. (Just Jared) We saw a lot of silver sequins last night at the Emmys. And it was kinda low key on colour, right? [Here’s how Gugu Mbatha-Raw is taking upon herself to address that]( – while keeping on theme, if the theme was, indeed, metallic. Yellow sparkles. It’s almost lime, right? Bright without being obnoxious. And so fresh. (Cele|bitchy) [Lea Michele wore Elie Saab last night](. Dark purple. I know it’s almost fall, it’s fall season colours, fall season fashion. But I’m not feeling it yet. This would be better at the Globes. But she doesn’t know if she’s going to Globes. If you’re Nicole Kidman you can bank dresses. Even if she’s not going to go as a nominee, they’ll ask her to go to as a presenter. These are not guarantees for everyone. (Go Fug Yourself) Jacek, Emily, and I went to see mother! on Saturday. It was the biggest, most obvious, try-hard waste of time amateur film and the deserves the CinemaScore F it received. What I’m saying is that [mother! should be in last place on this list](. (Vulture) [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 7:20 PM [Ben Affleck: Emmys Best & Worst Plus-One]( [Lindsay Shookus and Ben Affleck attend the HBO's Official 2017 Emmy After Party at The Plaza at the Pacific Design Center on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on. If you’re here for the gossip – WHAT ELSE IS THERE – Ben Affleck’s appearance at the Emmys was the best gossip of the night. He did not walk the carpet. He was not a nominee. [Ben Affleck]( had no reason to be at the Emmys…except that his girlfriend, Lindsay Shookus, is a producer on Saturday Night Live and so he went – as her PLUS ONE. Sitting way back in the 5th row. Or 6th? Like it must be love, right? If Ben Affleck, who’s won two Oscars, is sitting in the seats normally reserved for those off-camera, for a three hour show, it means he’s such a great boyfriend, so supportive, like just so f-cking there for her, you know? Ben Affleck is here at the [#Emmys]( accompanying his girlfriend, who is part of the SNL team [pic.twitter.com/EFsnWI9UEP]( — Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) [September 18, 2017]( Sure. That’s one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it might be – ummmm… did we ever see this when you were married to [Jennifer Garner]( and she was birthing and raising all three of your kids?! Anyway, Ben and Lindsay are evidently, as Sarah put it last night, “award show serious” now. After the Emmys they were at the HBO after-party hanging with the Curb Your Enthusiasm crew. He and Lindsay also had [dinner with Larry David]( the night before. Lindsay probably knows Larry because she handles talent on SNL and Larry appeared several times last year as Bernie Sanders. I suppose your takeaway from that might be that Lindsay has connections of her own, a career of her own, nominations of her own, so much so that Ben’s her guest instead of the other way around. Is that really the narrative we’re going with? Is that what we’re going to start hearing? Here, I can even write it for you – a possible upcoming report on PEOPLE.com: “Ben is really attracted to Lindsay’s ambition. He loves the fact that she’s so passionate about her career and that her colleagues her admire and respect her work so much. Ben’s so proud that Lindsay is one of Lorne Michaels’s most valuable team members. They motivate each other.” If it actually goes down that way, the subtext of course is that professional ambition was not an attribute he was seeing in Jennifer Garner, was not where he could connect with her. And my GOD I hope he’s not that stupid. I hope Ben Affleck isn’t that sloppy. You don’t want to be fighting Amazing Amy on drive, on who has drive and who doesn’t. Because now that she’s free of him, she’s breaking out into organic baby food and building her brand on the affection and loyalty of the American mom. Jennifer Garner’s about to show Ben Affleck all about f-cking drive. I might buy the goddamn baby food if this is what this is all about. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 6:54 PM [Reese Witherspoon: Emmys Worst Dressed (Duana)]( [Reese Witherspoon arrives at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Maybe I’m sleep deprived, but my first thought upon seeing [Reese Witherspoon](’s dress when she went up to accept the Emmy for Big Little Lies was, ohhh, interesting, she chose a ‘producer’ outfit rather than an ‘actress’ dress. Lainey’s response was, “That’s a way to defend it.” I wasn’t trying to defend it. I wasn’t even trying to get out of naming her worst dressed, and yet I can’t not. I didn’t like some of the other dresses last night, but they were your basic showstoppers, whereas this is an actual miss. When I look at the full-body pictures, it doesn’t sit right on her, and it is what my mother once called ‘a depressing colour’ and I’ve never been able to unhear that truth. Maybe that’s going down a little harder because of how much Reese wound up representing last night. I loved Big Little Lies and I love that Reese paid proper due to book author Liane Moriarty. Months after watching it, I still feel Madeleine was the role she was born to play, and I wanted the win last night to be a huge triumph – a hand-in-hand with The Handmaid’s Tale piece of evidence (because of course women always need proof, right?) that women-led entertainment can just be entertainment. Overall, the Big Little Lies wins were just that. But I can’t ignore that Reese said she decided to produce the project because she and Nicole weren’t getting offered parts they wanted… then in the next breath, she thanks Jean-Marc Vallee and David Kelley (sidebar: has he dropped the ‘E’? ) for ‘creating’ these parts for them. I feel a bit churlish complaining about that because it’s what you should and would say about any writer or director. They bring characters and worlds to actors, who inhabit them. Maybe it has to do with Reese’s line about “Bring women to the front of their stories and make them the hero of their own stories!” Yes, sure—but the front of their stories, the backs, too, the sides—that is, the more women are telling their stories all the way through (as with Lena Waithe in Master of None,) the more three-dimensional they’re going to be. Not that all of this needs to fall on Reese Witherspoon alone, obviously. But it’s interesting coupled with her quote in the October issue of Glamour, where she points out that Mindy Kaling schooled her in her own privilege: When I asked Mindy Kaling "Don't you ever get exhausted by always having to create your own roles?" she said, "Reese, [I've never had anything I didn't create for myself.]( (It’s a great article with lots of process-heavy details about producing—we might even pull it out of the vault when #ShowYourWork returns.) Overall, Reese’s ‘producer’ win last night marked a bit of a crossroads. She’s always been capable and labeled herself ‘Type A’ -- but now comes the real test. Act 2 of her career, where she’s not just an instantly-castable cute pert blond, or even a deeply talented cute pert blonde. Instead, she’s now a woman in Hollywood who truly sees what it means to have a career beyond being ‘just’ an actress. It’s hilarious, but she may only now be realizing she won’t be a leading woman for the next 10 years the way she was for the previous 10. It’s time for things to get more interesting. The great news is that Reese Witherspoon is realizing, part and parcel with her own privilege, that she will have to make her opportunities and they can look any way she wants them to. Which is to say that if she decides she’s going to win an Oscar for directing in 10 years, there’s no reason why not—she’s at least as talented as Ben Affleck, right? It goes without saying that Reese doesn’t need to work. I mean, I don’t know her alimony life, but I think she’s fine for cash. All of this is about wanting to continue a career because she’s got something to say – which means the moves are about to be big and bold. …and maybe she’s saving the showstopper dresses for the Golden Globes. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 6:22 PM [Mandy Moore: Emmys Worst Dressed (Kathleen)]( [Mandy Moore attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( [Mandy Moore](’s likability is a problem. I know “likeable” can be a loaded word for women but there is no better a way to describe Mandy Moore. People like her. She’s Rebecca Pearson, currently holding the title of America’s favourite TV mom. She just seems like a nice human. Duana [has gone so far]( as to call Mandy “ridiculously likeable.” I was right in that perfect age range when Mandy dropped Candy so I was one of many pre-teen girls who bought her album. Then I watched A Walk to Remember way too many times. Since then, Mandy Moore is like an old, cozy sweater I’ve had since high school that makes me feels safe and warm whenever I look at her. I’m sure it’s partially rooted in nostalgia but I can’t help but WANT to like Mandy Moore. And this is a problem because my need to like Mandy Moore has made me sit here trying to justify this monstrosity of a dress for way too long. The dress is bad. It’s really bad. Lainey, Duana and I have been fighting over Zoe Kravitz since last night but we all agree on this. No matter how likeable Mandy is, this Carolina Herrera dress is hateable. First, it’s a BORING dress trying to front like it’s interesting. The bottom tiers are offensive. Why is the middle one white? On Twitter, I saw it compared to everything from an Oreo to Sia’s hair. The Sia’s hair comparison made me laugh out loud because YES. [Mandy Moore's Emmy Dress is Sia's Hair]( A friend of a friend is getting married for the second time on Halloween. My friend said the bride will be wearing the same dress as the first wedding but this time, she’s dyeing most of it black. That sounds awful, right? This is the dress I think of when I hear that story. It’s not just the heinous tulle skirt. The black bustier is also the worst and does nothing for Mandy’s jewelry, which is actually quite nice. Speaking of jewelry, Mandy Moore is engaged to musician Tyler Goldsmith. The dude who plays Toby on This is Us [spilled the news to ET]( last week before Mandy could do it herself (Classic Toby amirite!?) She [debuted the engagement ring]( publicly on Friday and she sent her This Is Us costars pics of the ring over text. Here’s something nice: I really LIKE the engagement ring! [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 6:08 PM [Elisabeth Moss: Emmys Worst Dressed (Lainey)]( [Elisabeth Moss walks the red carpet during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Millennial Pink is the official name of this colour. Winning Pink is what I’m calling it from now on at award shows. Gwyneth Paltrow wore pink, in this material, taffeta, when she won the Oscar. Anne Hathaway wore pink, in the same material, when she won her Oscar. And now it’s [Elisabeth Moss](, the Best Drama Actress Emmy winner, finally, after so many previous nominations. If you recall, all the winning pink dresses were never the best. You win the trophy in Winning Pink. But you don’t win the style prize. Fair trade, I guess. I just don’t know why it has to be mutually exclusive. Elisabeth Moss was basically dressed like Millie Bobby Brown last night, only a much, much, MUCH lesser version. Why is an Emmy winning actress AND producer (!) wearing an inferior version of a 13 year old’s prom dress? And why couldn’t Elisabeth prom dress, at the very least, look more polished, less sloppy? The whole thing deflated even before she stepped on the carpet. Her arrival photos look like the end of night photos, after the party, after she’d been dancing all over the place. And none of it looks like what she just did. Elisabeth Moss showed her work on The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s the producer. She had a hand in every single decision, every frame of every episode – on top of her acting. Her series, in its first season, was just declared the best out of all other series. That’s boss. But the boss came in a child’s dress. I don’t understand. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 5:27 PM [Jessica Biel: Emmys Best Dressed (Kathleen)]( [Jessica Biel arrives at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Do not adjust your screens. That is [Jessica Biel](’s name beside BEST dressed instead of worst. It has almost happened before – at the Oscars. Lainey loved Jessica’s look but she was still included in a “Worst” post because of her husband. [My ex-crush]( Justin Timberlake [threw himself in the way]( of his wife’s shine at every moment he could on the Oscars red carpet. Her great dress didn’t get a chance to breath, it was suffocated by JT’s insufferable photobombs and jazz hands and general need to make sure no one pays attention to anyone but him. Well, [Justin Timberlake]( played the Rock in Rio festival this weekend in Brazil because his career is going fine in case you were wondering (#neverforget) so he was not at the Emmys to cockblock Jessica Biel’s Ralph & Russo Couture dress that I absolutely loved. Generally, if I’m judging style on a red carpet, I’m not basing a good look on what I would wear myself. I LOVE Zoe Kravitz’s dress ([Duana and I are fighting]() but it’s not like I would pick it off a rack to wear. That’s a lie. I would probably buy it and stare at it in my closet every now and then but never wear it. This one on Jessica Biel seems wearable. If the dress was completely the silver shimmering side or just the nude overlay, it would be basic AF. Together, it’s so pretty. I love the deep plunge. I’m really into the open back. I like that it’s got a Grecian vibe and a futuristic feel all at the same time. The cinch at the waist is very flattering. She looks great. SO great. I’m even into the hair. It’s bordering on Country Music Awards Carrie Underwood pompadour realness and yet, I’m not mad at it. The blush-toned makeup is the perfect touch. If you would have told me that Jessica Biel would have come through the Emmys this strong before the show, I would have laughed in your face. Jessica was interviewed by Giuliana Rancic during E!’s red carpet show. She talked about her show [The Sinner]( and you could tell it’s genuinely a passion project. When she talked about her son Silas, she was even pretty interesting and funny. It’s amazing what can happen when her attention-sucker of a husband isn’t around. She told a story about how [Silas now refuses to do things]( by saying, “That’s not a match, Mommy” and I think I cracked a smile listening to the anecdote. How far into that story do you think she would have been able to get if Justin was beside her? Would she have even got a word in? [Click here]( for Jessica Biel’s full red carpet interview and to see how magical this dress is when it moves. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 5:16 PM [Lena Waithe: Emmys Best Dressed, Best Prepped (Duana)]( [Lena Waithe poses in the press room during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( If we have learned one thing from Taylor Swift, it is that there is no charm in fake surprise at an awards show win. Genuine surprise makes great TV – the gasping and gulping and ‘you like me!’ that fuels social media the next day—but the calm, faux splutter of ‘well gosh, I don’t know what to say, um… I mean, uh… my team, I…” is not cute. Nobody is listening to you win so you can say a bunch of names that mean nothing to us – we’re listening so you can say something that means something. Use your time at the microphone. [Lena Waithe](, in her first ever win, first ever time at the mic, does just that. First of all, she ‘reclaims her time’ because the audience’s all-out cheering and the standing ovation is cutting into her speech time– then proceeds to skillfully and gracefully, without a stammer or a nervous glance to silent, proud [Aziz](, accept the award, make it personal by thanking her family, then explain to ‘my LGBTQIA family’ that they are superheroes. My favourite quote: “The things that make us different, those are our super-powers. Every day when you walk out the door, put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if we weren’t in it.” Almost like a writer wrote it, or something. Yes, I think she thought about what she wanted to say in the event that she won – I don’t know where we got the impression that it was important to look like the 20% chance of winning never even occurred to you, but I love that Lena Waithe doesn’t subscribe to it. She’s another historic win – the first black woman to win an Emmy for Comedy writing. But just in case anyone gets stars in their eyes about an actress-turned-writer who happened to be friends with Aziz, trust Ava Duvernay to be there to lay out the real story: For anyone w/ a dream, know how hard the great [@LenaWaithe]( worked for hers. Congrats on your win, Lena. History has its eyes on you! [#Emmys]( [pic.twitter.com/dt6WC3waMr]( — Ava DuVernay (@ava) [September 18, 2017]( Know how hard she worked. Know this has been a long time coming. Know that the part that’s on TV is just the end of the story, not the whole thing, and it comes from doing the work. For years, often. And then yes, showing her work. Speaking of showing her work, can you LOOK at this outfit. What I love about it is that while it’s perfectly Lena Waithe, it is exactly as formal as the night requires. Look at the piping on the shirt and the makeup and the updo. You can look just like yourself and still look like it’s the biggest night of your life so far. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 4:57 PM [Gabrielle Union: Emmys Best Dressed (Lainey)]( [Gabrielle Union attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Words are unnecessary. I’m pretty sure I don’t have to defend this choice. But words are what we do here at LaineyGossip. And all my best words are for [Gabrielle Union]( and how she looked at the Emmys last night. In a word: YES. Up and down and back and forwards, YES. Here’s another word: WHAT? Because her dress and cape are Zuhair Murad. And I’ve been over Zuhair Murad since 2008. But there’s a difference between how other people do Zuhair Murad and how Gabrielle Union does Zuhair Murad. With others, Zuhair Murad is chosen because of the sheer beading, let me show you my nakedness without showing you my nakedness thing. This is part of what Gabrielle was aiming for not all of what she was aiming for. Otherwise there would be no capelet. And there would be no necklace acting like a high collar. So it’s both sex and prim, it’s give a little and take it back. It’s this kind of styling, these styling decisions, that can make a dress that you’ve seen over and over again (because you HAVE seen it over and over again) seem fresh and new. Then, there’s the hair. A middle part ponytail has been my favourite jam lately instead of what I used to favour which was a tight pony, no part, all the way back. It’s because when you part in the middle, your pony can only go up so high up the back of your head. What the middle part slick-back creates, however, is a certain symmetry to your face. And I feel like it extra-accentuates the jawline. Right? Look at her jawline. Look at how that middle part highlights those eyebrows, the dimples, her lips, her entire gorgeous f-cking face, GOD! I love it so SO SO SO much! [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 4:05 PM [Shailene Woodley: The Emmy “reader”]( [Shailene Woodley attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Imagine that you are lucky enough to be involved in the biggest project of the year, at your work, say. Imagine too that you are plucked to be among much more experienced, celebrated, talented people who have been working juuuust about as long as you’ve been alive. Imagine having the gall, when someone asks you about this, to say “Oh, I actually don’t think any of it is very important. Where do people find the time to care about that stuff? ” Ask yourself how long you would have a job, and how in hell you would feel able to show your face around any of the people you worked with ever again? You know, of course, that [Shailene Woodley]( had the audacity to say last night that she doesn’t own a TV, because “I’m a reader.” That this entitled brat stood up there at an event being televised worldwide, to celebrate a program where she most assuredly made over a million dollars, for what I’m guessing was between six and nine weeks of work, all while saying she doesn’t own a TV and thus isn’t celebrating anyone who’s celebrating her, is one thing. A pretentious condescending thing, to be sure—but then, this is Shailene Woodley, who has been talking about how we probably can’t make it to the higher consciousness she operates on since she first started speaking to the press. But she doubles down on being better than you – than anyone, really – when she says, “All of my friends who watch TV, I just ask them when they have time to”. Right. Her friends who watch TV. Because of course most of them don’t, obviously, they wouldn’t dare. But she will lower herself to the level of those who do such distasteful things so she can ask these bottom-feeders when they have time to engage in such drivel. That is, she can ask when she’s between the pages of an extremely enlightening book. Because she’s a reader, as she makes sure you know. You know what I ‘wasted time’ on tonight, besides Woodley’s irritating ass? I went on Facebook – and saw all the photos of my friends who were at the Emmys tonight. Not actors, of course, but writers and producers and editors. The ‘nobodies’ we see in the background. The people for whom TV is a job, like any other. People who are paid normal-people salaries to push the paper and edit the files and have the calls with Head Office so that this actual product called television can get made. Shailene wants them to know their work is not really that important. Not to her. Because she’s a reader. A reader who somehow thinks TV is worth her time enough to make HBO’s money from it, to have her face ten stories high on promotional posters in huge cities, to raise her profile and to work with highly decorated actresses… but not to watch, because hers is the only work that’s worth watching on TV, I guess? I mean where would you find the time? To add insult to injury, this insufferable little dorm-hall hemp-purse snob is wearing a dress that I would have liked, on someone else who didn’t think the entire multi-billion-dollar industry she was there to celebrate was entirely beneath her because of the size of the screen it’s on. As it is, I now have to hate green velvet on top of everything else. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 3:40 PM [Donald Glover’s Earnest Emmys]( [Donald Glover attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( Come on now. When’s the last time we saw someone react quite like this? I tweeted earlier that this was a game changer for [Donald Glover]( in what was already a game-changer of a year. Atlanta is a hit, he’s a new dad (about to be again, apparently – my impression is that his parents found that news out the same time we did!), he’s playing Lando Calrissian in the Han Solo movie, he’s ridiculously likeable and has everything in front of him and… I don’t know, man. Donald Glover looks happy about the whole thing, but he doesn’t give me the impression he’s connecting the happiness to the fact that he is the one that made it happen. I’m not saying there’s a certain way that’s right to react – but if everything you’re doing and getting awards for is about you or written or created by you, it stands to reason you get to take the credit, right? I don’t get that vibe from Glover. This is the second time in a year that he’s looked straight-up shocked at wins for Atlanta. He has the best suit in the place, and four of the most important nominations of the night to his name – but when he wins two of them, he’s shocked and pleased and there’s no practiced speech or in-character swagger or bit; he just adorably thanks his son, his mom and dad, his partner. Sure, he thanks Donald Trump for “making black people number one on the most oppressed list,” and snarks that that’s probably the reason for the win… but it doesn’t feel like a line. None of it does. Glover can barely believe it’s happening. He smiles that sweet Troy Barnes-esque smile at us and earnestly (no pun intended) tells us how much he appreciates everyone. Almost like he’s proud to be there or something. Unlike certain overgrown brats I could name. And will name. The announcer (how have we not yet talked about that guy?) told us Glover was the first black person to win an Emmy for directing comedy, and to me, the directing win is even more significant than the performance one - not just because he’s the FOD in that regard but because it’s a harder, less personal craft. Winning both in the same night is a big, big deal… but it hasn’t sunk in yet for Donald Glover that that big deal is all because of him, and it’s utterly charming to watch. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 3:17 PM [Riz Ahmed and Issa Rae: Emmys Best Couple]( [Issa Rae and Riz Ahmed speak onstage during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( [Riz Ahmed]( and [Issa Rae]( presented Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. From the moment they walked on to the Emmy stage, side by side, looking goddamn impeccable, I was imagining the life I want them to live together. Most people were tweet-wishing for Issa and Riz to star in a rom-com. That is not enough for me. I would like them to be life partners and to procreate. For the culture. If you watched Insecure season two (if you didn’t, how much longer must we yell at you?), you know the Lawrence/Issa flash-forward sequence that ripped our hearts out, stomped on them and threw them against that stained wall in Issa’s apartment? Now picture those scenes but it’s Issa and Riz getting their happily ever after. In my imaginary alternate universe, Issa Rae and Riz Ahmed have two children, a girl and a boy, named Issa Jr. and Riz Jr. because you can’t improve on perfect names like Issa and Riz. They rap nursery rhymes to their little ones because they are both incredibly gifted MCs. Before they leave for the Emmys, Riz Jr. tells his mommy that it’s OK that the Emmys robbed her of a nomination. Riz Sr. kisses his wife on the forehead and says the same thing. They share an intimate moment of respect and admiration for each other’s crafts. Issa Jr. asks her dad to promise to thank her in his acceptance speech if he wins. He promises, thinking to himself there is no way he will win because men who look like him never win. Issa and Riz tell the kids not to stay up too late and they leave. On the red carpet, they put Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban to shame with their classy PDA. When they get home later, high on a night beyond their wildest dreams, they wake up the kids, even though they shouldn’t, and rap them to sleep with a nursery rhyme about how their dreams can come true, whatever they choose to put their minds to. CAN YOU TELL I’M ALREADY WAY TOO INVESTED IN THESE TWO? OK. I’m done. Thank you for indulging me. Fan fiction aside, Riz Ahmed was one of last night’s many firsts. He took home the award for lead actor in a limited series or movie for The Night Of. He gave a lovely speech (that voice, swoon!) thanking his costar John Turturro and the late James Gandolfini before shouting out South Asian Youth Action and The Innocence Project and delivering this short, sweet, powerful statement: “I want to say it is always strange reaping the rewards of a story based on real-world suffering, but if this show has shone a light on some of the prejudice in our societies, islamophobia, some of the injustice in our justice system, then maybe that is something.” Riz Ahmed is the first South Asian actor to win an acting Emmy. Ever. [Riz has been vocal]( in the past about the portrayal of South Asian men, specifically Muslims, on television. This win is massive. The Emmys couldn’t stop jerking itself off for inclusion and diversity last night and Riz’s win could be a signal of change… or he may just be the exception to the rule. He may be the first of many more South Asian actors to be recognized by the Emmys but how long will it be before someone else of South Asian descent takes home this award? His imaginary wife Issa has been a part of many firsts in her career and while she may not have been nominated last night, she talked about her latest honour on the E! Red Carpet in a breathtaking, custom-made Vera Wang. Issa Rae is the new face of Cover Girl. Speaking to Guliana Rancic, Issa said, “If awkward black girls can be Cover Girls then anybody can be.” I gave her a standing ovation in my living room. And in my favourite Issa red carpet moment of the night, this was her response when she was asked which actors she was rooting for: "I'm rooting for everybody black!" [#Insecure]( star [@IssaRae]( says on the red carpet [#Emmys]( [pic.twitter.com/Pz3DJPyJc2]( — Variety (@Variety) [September 17, 2017]( God, I love her. She’s right though. I was rooting for every black person and person of colour up for awards last night. Because inclusion matters. Because being the first is the first step to more, which is the next step to equality. Every South Asian kid who screamed at their TV when Riz won now has the permission to believe that they could be next. Every awkward black girl who sees Issa as the face of Cover Girl knows she’s beautiful and worthy. Have I convinced you yet that this couple belongs together? FOR THE CULTURE. Watch Riz’s full speech below and soak in the magnificence of Issa’s whole look. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 3:01 PM [Nicole Kidman: Emmys Best (and most controversial?) Acceptance Speech]( [Nicole Kidman attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( As Kathleen just wrote in her post about Alexander Skarsgard and the on-the-mouth kiss he shared with [Nicole Kidman]( in front of [Keith Urban]( when he was heading up to stage to accept his award, everybody calm down. In North America, we are too f-cking pearl-clutchy about these kisses. If this had happened in Europe, nobody would have noticed. And also, if you’ve seen Big Little Lies and know what those two went through to play those characters, to bring life to that storyline, it only makes sense that they would share a moment last night as a testament to the trust and respect that had to have been there for them to go to a place that was so vulnerable, so raw, and so dark. So that was the mild controversy. The bigger controversy was what she said in her acceptance speech when she dedicated her win to Keith Urban and their two daughters, Sunday and Faith: “I also am a mother and a wife. I have two little girls, Sunday and Faith and my darling Keith who I asked to help me pursue this artistic path and they had to sacrifice so much for it, so this is yours. I want my little girls to have this on their shelf and to look at it and go, ‘every time my momma didn’t put me to bed, it’s because of this. I got something.’” I heard it in the context of this particular performance, as Celeste, when she’s spoken several times about how long it took her to get over the role, how Celeste stayed with her, and, in some ways, broke her. To play Celeste with that kind of fearlessness – that eventually won her this award – she had to take time away from the young children she’s raising, who are at home with her: Sunday and Faith. So, to me anyway, it wasn’t a thing that she didn’t mention Isabella and Connor. They aren’t the ones who weren’t tucked in when she was shooting Big Little Lies. Last year, when Nicole was promoting Lion in which she plays a mother of an adopted son, she spoke specifically and repeatedly about her two oldest children. And how her performance in that film was [dedicated to them](: "I can see now, for Lion, that it was important to me because I'm a mother with adopted children. This movie is a love letter to my children. [My character] Sue is deeply maternal and full of unconditional love, which is beautiful. That's why I wanted to do it. I relate to that. I feel that for my own children who are adopted. It's not about anything else other than 'I wanted you.' It's that deep and personal, and whatever your journey is, I'm here to love and support you. That's what I connected to." Is it fair to accuse her of forgetting two of her children? When, not even a year ago, she was referencing them in connection to her work, the way she referenced Sunday and Faith, and the impact her work on BLL would have had on them? Of course it’s also more complicated than that. Because Isabella and Connor are Scientologists and closer with their father. According to multiple reports, when Nicole and [Tom Cruise]( divorced, she was [declared a Suppressive Person]( by the Church Of Scientology. Scientologists are supposedly expected to avoid SPs. And there have long been rumours that Isabella and Connor have distanced themselves from their mother, who apparently resisted Scientology influence, in adherence to church rules. Which is what makes the other part of her acceptance speech, the part that’s been overshadowed by the “two kids” fixation, perhaps even more heartbreaking. It’s when she addresses the “bigger message”: “Sometimes when you’re acting, you get a chance to bring a bigger message — we shine a light on domestic abuse. It is a complicated, insidious disease that exists far more than we allow ourselves to know. It is filled with shame, secrecy and by you acknowledging me with this award, it shines a light on it even more. So thank you, thank you, thank you. I bow down to you.” Do you remember Going Clear, the documentary that was released a couple of years ago about Scientology? According to former Scientologists, the Church was supposedly not pleased with Nicole’s reluctance to go all-in. And so they began to, allegedly, convince Tom that she was a negative influence. According to former Scientologists, he [had her phone tapped](. The Church has vehemently denied these claims. But…well… you know. With that in mind, it felt personal to me, what she was saying about domestic abuse. It felt…like it was close, and that it was real and profound pain for her. She has never publicly disavowed Scientology, because she has never wanted to disrespect her children, but if any of this is true, if Going Clear was true, if what Leah Remini says, and has been saying as loudly as she can at every opportunity, is true, can you imagine how painful it would have to be, to have had to endure so many years of estrangement from her kids? What would her choices have been? Sh-t and diarrhoea. You fight and you put your children on the biggest stage and you risk f-cking them up even more. You don’t fight and they’re “protected” in a sense, but you don’t see them. Given the backstory here, I’m not sure it’s fair to be mad at her for what she may or may not intentionally or unintentionally have omitted last night. Of course it’s very, very, very important to acknowledge adopted children to be as valuable as biological children. But this is such a unique and complex situation, I don’t know if calling her out here is the right response. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 2:19 PM [Alexander Skarsgard: Emmys Best ‘Stache]( [Alexander Skarsgard poses in the press room at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( [Alexander Skarsgard]( and [Nicole Kidman]( kissed on the lips while he made his way up to accept the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. It was a quick, affectionate peck and Keith Urban was right there. Everyone calm down. I had to get that out of the way. Now can we move on to more important things like Skarsgard’s mustache? HOW is he making this work? I was just having a conversation with my friend Caleigh the other day about how we would not be down if our respective partners wanted to grow mustaches. We both think they are actively revolting. We decided that a ‘stache is a potential deal breaker. A ‘stache plus the fact that Perry Wright is a skeevy sociopath, it should not be working. Against all logic, I do not hate Alexander Skarsgard’s mustache. In fact, I think I’m really into it. It helps that Alexander Skarsgard is stupidly attractive. It also helps that he seemed genuinely starstruck by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton, as he should be. His speech was awkward but endearing. I didn’t even flinch when he called the cast of Big Little Lies “girls” like I did when Jean-Marc Vallée said it. Here’s the context in which Skarsgard referenced the cast: "Thank you for making this boy feel like one of the girls.” On a Hollywood set, how often is it that the men are the minority? You always hear about the sole female on set having to “fit in with the boys.” I like how this Skarsgard quote flips the script on that idea. HE had to fit in with them. He was made to feel welcome by this bevy of badass women who had the control on set. It’s not the same as “you girls,” diminishing their power and importance. It actually gives insight into the sisterhood that formed on the set of Big Little Lies. Maybe I’m blinded by the allure of the ‘stache but I thought the way Skarsgard delivered this was kind of empowering. He also adorably thanked his mom: "Speaking of incredible women, I want to thank my mother who flew out all the way from Stockholm, Sweden to be here tonight... Oh and thanks for giving birth to me, that was pretty cool." He’s a bit dorky too, right? It’s turning me on. What is happening? So, Alexander Skarsgard is now an Emmy winner. Perry Wright was a singular role. It’s a performance he absolutely deserved to be rewarded for. Skarsgard’s Perry was haunting and horrifying. We now know that he can deliver on screen in multiple roles (including True Blood) and with this affable Emmys appearance, his career is on a serious upswing. (Lainey: haha, unintentional Tarzan joke!) [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 1:57 PM [I’m more disappointed in myself than Louis C.K.]( [Louis C.K. arrives at the FX and Vanity Fair Emmy Celebration at Craft on September 16, 2017 in Century City, California]( In 2012 rumors began with a [Gawker blind item]( that identified a “beloved comedian” who, allegedly, jerked off in front of women, citing an incident at a comedy festival involving two female comedians. It was widely believed to be Louis C.K. (Gawker would eventually [explicitly name]( C.K.) Those rumors were given new fuel recently when Tig Notaro made clear that despite receiving an executive producer credit on her show, One Mississippi, C.K. is not and never has been involved. “He has nothing to do with the show,” she emphasizes repeatedly in an interview with The Daily Beast. She goes on to say, “I think it’s important to take care of that, to handle that, because it’s serious to be assaulted. […] It’s serious to be harassed. It’s serious, it’s serious, it’s serious.” This is the strongest and most pointed criticism levelled at C.K., because Notaro isn’t just a gigging comic in the clubs—though they have [spoken up](, too— her introduction to mainstream audiences came because C.K. sold her incredible 2012 set in which she began by announcing, “Hello, I have cancer," through his website." Notaro and C.K. are peers, and while she doesn’t owe her career to him, there is a professional connection, a relationship, even. So it was surprising to hear Notaro speak so sharply about C.K., and to reveal they haven’t even spoken in years. As Emma Healey points out in her [tremendous essay]( for Hazlitt, the rumors about C.K. remain nebulous. No one has officially attached her name to specific allegations. Jen Kirkman came closest, but she [walked back]( her comments. (Roseanne Barr also walked back comments she made about C.K.) And as Healey writes, this makes it easy to dismiss the allegations, or at least ignore them, especially because C.K. won’t talk about it, either. In an [interview with Vulture]( last year, he said, “I do the work I do, and what happens next I can’t look after. So my thing is that I try to speak to the work whenever I can. Just to the work and not to my life.” When it first came up in 2012, I thought, Oh please don’t be Louis C.K. But the rumors never went anywhere, so I put it out of my head. When it came back in 2015, I thought again, Please, not him. I confess to taking the easy way out, not disbelieving the women speaking up, but just not…wanting to hear it. But this time, it was harder to ignore, because C.K. was wrestling with issues of misogyny and harassment/assault and the myriad ways men hurt women. In his 2013 special, Oh My God, he [talks about]( the threat of men and violence against women. And in his show, Louie, Louie—played by C.K.—assaults his friend Pamela. His new film, I Love You, Daddy, is about a father, again played by C.K., wrestling with an admired filmmaker who expresses interest in his underage daughter. Women, misogyny, violence, assault—these things were on C.K.’s mind so much they infiltrated multiple mediums of his art. I do not miss the awful irony, that what forced me to start examining my relationship with C.K. and his work were his own words, and not the words of alleged victims. It’s inexcusable, and there is no defense. What finally broke the mental and emotional stalemate I was in came late last year. I was defending my decision to be done with Woody Allen at a party, explaining how I can no longer separate art and artist, especially when his art [dares me](C3%A9-Society-movie-review/44473) to keep making that excuse. I said I was tired of men being excused no matter how awful the accusation just because people enjoy their work. And then I heard myself, and my mind leaped to Louis C.K. When I got home that night, I went through everything I’d written about C.K.—I had reviewed his show [Horace and Pete]( earlier in the year—and I hated myself a little. Because I knew by then something was wrong, that there was and is a serious issue surrounding C.K., and I had refused to engage with it in a meaningful way. As a critic, I wasn’t doing my duty. As a fan, well, I was being a coward. When TIFF came around this year, I didn’t put I Love You, Daddy on my list of potential reviews. It was still the coward’s way out, and I still didn’t want to engage with C.K., the rumors, my loss of admiration in and enjoyment of his art. But I didn’t say anything about [Joss Whedon](, another personally upsetting loss of respect, so when a reader named Madelyn asked for my take on Emma Healey’s essay, it was like a personal challenge—talk about this now, or forever lose not only respect for C.K., but for myself, too. So, my take—I’m disappointed. In C.K, sure, but mostly in myself. For choosing my own entertainment and shallow enjoyment over a woman’s trauma, for hearing but refusing to listen, for contributing to a culture that silences and hurts women. I never told anyone to sit down and shut up, but I also didn’t choose to amplify, and my selfish refusal to empathize keeps an alleged harasser in a position of comfort and power. (Is my voice so strong? Not alone, no, but how many people made the same self-interested choice?) So I join Tig Notaro in saying that Louis C.K. must address these rumors and allegations directly. It’s not enough to tease it obliquely [through his art](. This is, as Notaro says, a serious issue, and it deserves to be treated seriously, by everyone. Refusing to participate is a luxury. Picking and choosing what to talk about—controlling the conversation—is a privilege. It’s one I can no longer in good conscience afford myself. I only wish Louis C.K. would do the same. But he probably won’t. They never do. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 1:21 PM [Zoe Kravitz: Emmy Colour Couture]( [Zoe Kravitz arrives at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( I love colour, especially in clothes. I am a sucker for a rainbow stripe, I rarely go for a black dress, and I inevitably wind up whining/wiggling my way out of writing about certain people during our awards show wraps because I haaaate nude/neutral dresses. This [Zoe Kravitz]( Dior Couture dress should have hit me right in the dopamine. But I’m left so, so, so cold on it. The colours seem too uniform, like they need to be shot through with the black at the top or at least have some change in intensity. Then, too, the harsh delineation of the top and bottom seems really awkward – it might have worked if the black had continued into the skirt and then gone coloured at her hip – as it is it feels young, not youthful, not in the way it was intended. If it gave me less of an Easter basket vibe, I could find ways to love it. It’s not hanging together for me no matter how much I want it to… …And when we first saw it, I said it reminded me of Lady Lovely Locks, and Kathleen and I are currently only speaking because we’re contractually obligated to. I’m about to make it worse, too, because I’m here to point out that [Tessa Thompson]( did the rainbow thing much better and more effortlessly... by a lot. Zoe Kravitz is so flawless in virtually everything she wears and does that I once texted Lainey from New York just to say I was walking near her. She’s so compelling that it’s startling when there’s a misstep. If (and this is less of a big if than it was before last night) there’s another season of Big Little Lies, it’s understood there would be an increased role for Zoe Kravitz’s Bonnie… so there are many more opportunities for her to do what she does next, creatively and sartorially. Sorry, Kathleen. [Click here for the rest of the photos.]( Posted at 12:45 PM [Priyanka Chopra: Emmys Most Sweaty]( [Priyanka Chopra arrives at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California]( The weather was reportedly [cool-ish and comfortable]( in LA for the Emmys last night but I still don’t believe that [Priyanka Chopra]( wasn’t sweating profusely in this feathery Balmain, long-sleeved sweater dress. I like her and really wanted to like this dress but every time I looked at her I felt sweaty. This dress would be appropriate for the JUNOs, when the red carpet always takes place at the tail-end of cruel Canadian winters (why, though?). In theory, I might even like this dress if the Emmys were a winter carpet. But they’re not. And I will spend the rest of the day wondering how Priyanka managed not to sweat her face off in this cocoon. There’s also too much going on. The simple ponytail is a nice contrast to the complexity of the dress but the dark makeup is overwhelming. Usually, I’ll be iffy on a dress in photographs and then like it much better in video. Priyanka posted a slow-motion glamour video of the dress and after watching it a few times, I have not changed my mind. [What a night it's been at the #Emmys... #ShimmyShimmying in @balmain. Congratulations to all the winners, thank you for revolutionizing the world of Television. #ThatKindOfNight So proud of the incredible artists that came together to make tonight epic! Big props to @rizahmed @azizansari #represent! Congrats #biglittlelies #handmaidstale #thisisus !]( A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Sep 17, 2017 at 10:41pm PDT Priyanka presented with Anthony Anderson and the announcer pronounced her name wrong, like “Chop-AH” instead of “Chop-RAH.” Nope. Priyanka Chopra is now an awards show staple. Get her name right. .[@priyankachopra]( and [@anthonyanderson]( present the award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series at the [#Emmys]( [#PCatEmmys]( [pic.twitter.com/XMuzYotLll]( — Team Priyanka Chopra (@TeamPriyanka) [September 18, 2017](

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