Emmy Awards 2014 Julia Roberts actually lost at the Emmys You know she's kicking herself for showing up. That is a dress choice and hand-painted highlights and probably a custom-blended lipstick shade, all for Erin Brockovich herself, and then she didn’t win? There are no shots of her holding the trophy with that smile. They basically sold By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 08:20 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Lena Dunham, Allison Williams: Emmys Best Girl, Worst Girl Lena Dunham looked awesome. There are all kinds of caveats and I could list them, but they’re personal. I don’t personally like white shirts and I don’t personally love pink. Not the point. She looked awesome because she decided to try on a look and, unlike in By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 07:47 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Sarah Silverman: Best Emmy Win Because she actually, honest-to-goodness didn’t expect it. I like that. She’s such an outlier that she wouldn’t bet on herself, out of a sheer desire not to lose a bet. That’s cool, and so the win and the speech – despite the molecule business – talked to me. By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 07:11 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Lizzy Caplan: Best Unseen Emmys Dress I got the Twitter urging early and often to go look at Lizzy Caplan’s dress. It’s gorgeous, yes. Particularly from the side, where you can see the litheness of the body (not a surprise if you’ve been watching the show – I got very, very familiar with her By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 05:48 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Allison Janney: Best Killing It at the Emmys At the risk of being gross and fangirly, come on now with the Allison Janney. She’s the best, and you know it. She wore a velvet dress and you have not seen one in years but you bought it on her without question. She spoke happily about being a By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 05:31 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Best Emmys Acceptance, Again The thing with JLD is she doesn’t pretend she’s not excellent. You know like at a sleepover when you’re 12, and some girl asks another “Truth or dare…(truth, these kinds of girls always pick truth) …what’s it like being so pretty? Like you’re so By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 05:11 am
Emmy Awards 2014 Kerry Washington: Worst Emmys Showgirl It’s not arbitrary, of course. Kerry Washington didn’t just choose the orange because she liked it, or as an homage to Orange Is The New Black, or whatever. She chose it, I assume, as she often does, to counteract all the white and grey and beige that is By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 04:57 am
Emmy Awards 2014 In Defense Of Zooey’s Emmys Hair I landed in New York this morning and it affected my Emmy experience in two ways. One, I got to watch all the American commercials which really do seem more …commercial, somehow…and two, I was SO HOT during. There’s humidity here like there hasn’t been all summer. By Duana • Aug 26, 2014 04:37 am
Masters of Sex Beyonce > Sex Masters Of Sex Season 2 Episode 7 recap It was a bad night to be switching between Masters and the VMAs because the timeline was jumping all over the damn place. To be honest, had I known, I could have almost gotten through it all while waiting for Beyonce but… By Duana • Aug 25, 2014 01:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No Frills Hi Duana, Hoping you can help my husband and I out. We are expecting our first child in August and are keeping the gender a surprise. We're pretty set on our boy name, but the girl name is what's keeping us up at night. Although we By Duana • Aug 25, 2014 12:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Real vs. Fake Hi Duana, I'm pregnant with our second child, due in November. We have a 15 month old son named Pearce. Our last name is Allen, which is super mainstream, so it's important to us to choose first names that are memorable. Our style is short and By Duana • Aug 22, 2014 12:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bitch Stole My Name Hi Duana, I am currently pregnant with my first child and am having a bit of a name dilemma. The background story is this: I had made the mistake of telling a girlfriend of mine, L, that I liked the name Chloe, and coming from a European upbringing, this is By Duana • Aug 20, 2014 03:51 pm
TV Updates Watching Teenagers in your Thirties It’s not a fair fight. It isn’t. Because they start playing Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison before you even have a chance to form an opinion on whether you want to watch the movie or not. The fact is we shouldn’t, really. A movie about the behind-the-scenes By Duana • Aug 19, 2014 03:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Summer Rain. Really? Okay, well, this is what I’m talking about. When I say sibling names don’t match, this is what I mean. Summer Rain Rutler. It’s not my taste, obviously, but I know that Summer has gone from being a hippie-dippie punchline to a useable name, and even though By Duana • Aug 18, 2014 03:04 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Not Lauren So everyone I know is going to know who this letter is from by (a) my children's names, and (b) the fact that I'm writing in when they all know I am a very loyal reader. My problem is this: we have backed ourselves into a By Duana • Aug 18, 2014 12:07 pm
Bill’s Out. Surprise. Masters Of Sex Season 2 Episode 6 You know why people like gimmicks? They need a break, sometimes. Yes, it’s silly that Bert Cooper wears socks with no shoes in the office, or that Frank Underwood is so buttoned-down but kills racks of ribs at 8 AM, or that By Duana • Aug 18, 2014 09:53 am
