Style Pharrell: Best All-Around Steeze Pharrell, you beautiful creature, you. You are the embodiment of exactly what it’s supposed to be to be a celebrity. You show up to places, and you are pleased as hell with your accomplished-yet-relaxed-appearing life, and you wear still more compelling-yet-not-serious stuff, and you’re also – almost incidentally – phenomenally By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 07:11 am
Oscars 2014 Viola Davis: Best Oscar First Arrival Thankless. It’s thankless to be first on the carpet. Firstly, you know that your reps put you out there as an early bargaining chip. They need someone recognizable and reliable but not too exciting to arrive early so that nobody turns off the TV. So you’re the anchor, By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 06:28 am
Oscars 2014 Daniel Day Lewis: Best Oscar Accent It’s not just the accent, of course. It’s that shiny silver hair and the lilt in the voice and the grin. Right now I’m having a bit of a hard time, because even though I know him in my bones to be Irish, it turns out he By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 06:16 am
Oscars 2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Best Oscar Grin We know he's on a hot streak right now. We know he's really coming into his own creatively. That he's more in demand than ever. His status as one of the chosen people was cemented by the fact that he was asked to appear By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 05:36 am
Oscars 2014 Olivia Wilde: Best Oscar Pregnancy (Duana) It ain’t easy, OK? It’s not easy to get out there when you’re that big and pregnant and wear something that’s supposed to be an approximation of “glam”. But you do it because you’re Olivia Wilde. But what if you f-ck yourself over? What if By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:53 am
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
