TV Updates Shonda Invents Anna Today I’m wondering about writer Jessica Pressler. Every year or so, Jessica Pressler produces a piece for The Cut that becomes a cult thing in and of itself alongside its subject(s). Back in 2015, her article on “The Hustlers at Scores” was one of the best investigative essays By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 02:47 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is Her Own Torch The Emmys are getting more and more fractured, in a way I can only see as (mostly) good. It’s almost never the case that the winner of any given award is everyone’s favourite, or that so-and-so was ‘robbed’, because everything is definitively excellent. But it doesn’t stop By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 04:44 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Jackie Hoffman and the Emmys 2017 About two hours into the Emmys last night, Duana wrote this to Kathleen and me on our group chat: “You guys. I’m not bored OR mad. What’s wrong?” It was a good show, non? The sketches were good. The presenters were good. It felt FUN. And, as Duana By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 03:06 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Anna Chlumsky: Emmys Most Fascinatingly Dressed I am not mad at it. (Lainey: me neither.) If you are, let’s take a second. What are you mad at, exactly? Here’s what I love about this amazingly ballsy dress: it’s not trying to be something else. It’s not like “Oh, but no, I am By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 07:35 am
