Oscars 2014 Bette Midler & Idina Menzel: Oscars Underwhelming Iconic Songs So, okay. Let us start with the Divine Miss M, who was self-effacing on the red carpet and then rather well-dressed in vertical stripes during her performance. Even though coming at the end of the In Memoriam segment can be a tricky place to be, Bette knows that that song By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:25 am
Oscars 2014 Pink: Best Oscars Red Dress Vocalist Overheard in our hotel room just before the lights came up on Pink: “I hope she’s not on silks”. This prompted a chorus of “right?” and smartasses trying to outsmart one another… but then she started to sing and it all fell away. Why have I been looking at By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:12 am
Oscars 2014 Goldie Hawn: The “Cool” Oscars Mom It was a night of moms tonight, and it was awesome. Jared Leto’s mom was much celebrated and beautiful and it didn’t even feel cheesy. Matthew McConaughey’s mother was wearing a kick-ass dress and clearly ran him like a train schedule. Steve McQueen’s mother standing up By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 03:25 am
Oscars 2014 Kate Hudson: Worst Use Of An Oscar Dress Kate Hudson walked in and everyone was like “Oh! Oh yeah!” It’s not that she’s become a punchline, exactly, but everyone knows what a Kate Hudson movie is, and there’s usually no Venn Diagram overlap between a Hudson pic and Oscars. So maybe we’ve forgotten that By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 03:13 am
Scandal Tertiary Characters, activate! Scandal Season 3 Episode 11 recap So as it turns out, we should all be having a little more sex in front of bright naked lightbulbs. Right? It feels like Scandal has been gone forever and in the time it’s been gone, there’s been a seismic shift where By Duana • Feb 28, 2014 09:59 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Earl The Answer? Hi, We are having our first child this July, a boy. My husband really likes the name Earl. It was his grandfather's name. I know that traditional names from the past are very popular, but I feel that Earl is not one of these names. I do not By Duana • Feb 27, 2014 12:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Everyone Else Got There First Hi Duana! I am hoping you can help me! I am due with baby #2 in just over 2 months. My husband and I had no problem naming our first daughter and the name came easily to us. Her name is Sophie Olivia F. This time around, we are struggling By Duana • Feb 25, 2014 11:45 am
Girls “Patti LuPone F*cked With My Head” Girls Season 3 Episode 8 recap Okay. First, credit where credit is due. Before there was Mrs. Coach – before those long, luscious locks were no nonsense with the “look at the choices you are makin’” – there was Patti LuPone, Libby Thatcher from “Life Goes On”, if you have that memory, By Duana • Feb 24, 2014 11:09 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Then there was Bodhi One of the very first name nerd commentaries on this site was about Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox’s son Noah Shannon, who was born in September 2012. Click here for a refresher. I said the name was lovely and surprisingly charming, and went well with Green’s older By Duana • Feb 21, 2014 10:20 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Esme Hi Duana, I'm hoping you can provide some neutral perspective on my preferred baby girl's name, because I can't get any from my nearest and dearest. Here's the name: Esme. Here's the problem: for Generation X and the Baby Boomers By Duana • Feb 20, 2014 11:39 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Whose Nerd Reigns Supreme? Hey Duana, Well I’m pregnant for the second time this year, first time ended in a miscarriage very early on, which lead me to be overly cautious/ paranoid with this one. On the bright side everything is going as it should be, and I’m almost 20 weeks so By Duana • Feb 18, 2014 11:58 am
Girls That’s not what inertia means Girls Season 3 Episode 7 recap Girls, can you stop getting me to like you? That was not supposed to be my thing, okay? Remember back in the day, when you were trite and I was crotchety? This was your best episode ever, okay? Is that condescending of me? Girls By Duana • Feb 17, 2014 11:46 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Baby Hazel The most unusual book that is one of my favourites involves a boy and his favourite major-league baseball player. Yes, you are reading a Duana article. It’s called Last Days of Summer and most people have never heard of it, but basically: Joey, age 12, is having a hard By Duana • Feb 17, 2014 10:27 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Work Around The Sounds Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting a boy in May and we're having a really tough time coming up with a good name. Part of the problem is our last name - Wells. It's a fine, traditional English name, but it's also By Duana • Feb 14, 2014 11:53 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What if it’s Weird? Hi Duana, Ok, i've probably left this WAY too late but I'm due in 3 weeks and we can't decide on a name for our second child - a boy. Given that we are a mixed nationality family (Aussie mum, Dutch father) we are By Duana • Feb 13, 2014 02:27 pm
Vampire Diaries Katherine Is The Best: A Thesis Vampire Diaries Season 4 Catchup Eps 9-13 Like all theses, we need to set out up front certain rules that prove the proof – certain things we have to accept are true. So. If a show in Season 5 is both a little tired and also a little bit free to By Duana • Feb 13, 2014 12:39 pm
