Break Ups Emmys Best Face Forward: Michael Douglas So I guess what I realized is that we don't really give men as much credit, do we? We sort of smile affectionately when their relationships dissemble and wait for them to have new girlfriends. If this was George Clooney or Jake Gyllenhaal or someone, we’d be By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 09:11 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Sexism and the single parent Read this article about JK Rowling discussing her life as a single parent. Though I don’t know the organization Gingerbread of which she’s president, it doesn’t seem hard to understand what it’s about – the general promotion and support of single parents. Here, she explains why she By Duana • Sep 20, 2013 12:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Jean Of Arc Hi Duana, After some struggles with infertility, my husband and I are finally pregnant and out of the danger zone! Of course having all this extra time trying to get pregnant has lead to much name debate. Now that we will finally, offically have someone to name, we are stuck. By Duana • Sep 19, 2013 01:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: They’re Born! The Updates! Thank you all who read and who submit, who like my responses and who want to punch me in the face for them - and then maybe use them anyway. I have a blast doing these columns and please, keep the questions coming! The update to "In The Middle& By Duana • Sep 19, 2013 11:54 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Emergencies! Y’all, I’ve received two emergency emails recently (both, interestingly, from people who already have one son), so I thought we’d cut the queue and help out these desperate people. Also, the roundup of updates I’ve gotten is coming Thursday! Keep the name questions coming! I am By Duana • Sep 17, 2013 01:09 pm
Dumbass An Education Do you ever play the alternate career game? I have so many. I’d be a wardrobe stylist for a show, or a translator, or sometimes, on certain days, I think I’d be a high school teacher, "Dangerous Minds"-style, challenging and asking questions and gently nudging By Duana • Sep 16, 2013 02:36 pm
The Newsroom Good Night – and Good Luck The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 9 recap Poor Newsroom. It’s one thing to fight its own battles on its own merits, but how could it possibly be even a drop in the bucket when Breaking Bad is eating up all the attention and tweets and television-generated outrage and joy? By Duana • Sep 16, 2013 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Getting to know Newt Scamander J.K. Rowling announced yesterday that she would write the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, a movie set in New York, some 70-odd years before Harry Potter, and starring Newt Scamander. You’ve had 24 hours to process the following information: - Yes, there is wizarding By Duana • Sep 13, 2013 11:45 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfect Fit for #4 I would like some insight and suggestions please. We have 3 girls: Belle, Una Fae and Evangeline. We are now expecting a boy. I was quite taken aback as we thought we were 'done' with our 3 girls and thus never imagined a boy in the mix, but By Duana • Sep 12, 2013 01:32 pm
TIFF 2013 Coverage What It’s Like To Be That Girl Mostly that girl gets written about in YA novels. In Gossip Girl. There is a beautiful person, who is magnetic to all, and then an underbelly-seether who loves and hates her. And then we find out that the beautiful person is not, really, or she is but is terribly emotionally By Duana • Sep 11, 2013 02:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Your Best Friends Are Pregnant Emily and John John and Emily Going to have a baby In a few months time. Oh here we go. Krasinski and Blunt are going to have a kid. I don’t know why this is news but I was all squee at the announcement. Maybe because it seems like By Duana • Sep 11, 2013 10:37 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Be Afraid of Teasing? Hello Duana, My girlfriend and I are pregnant with our first child. She follows your column regularly and takes your opinions on names as Gospel. Over the last few weeks we have been discussing possible child names and she seems dead-set on the name Seamus for a boy. She contends By Duana • Sep 10, 2013 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who wants to put their shoes on? So Lainey emails this morning to see if this is an article I’m interested in writing. Which is exactly the way it goes any other day, with any other article, except that the subject heading wasn’t “This?” or “Do you care?” The subject heading was “Anne Shirley”. SO By Duana • Sep 10, 2013 01:15 pm
Wentworth Miller Wentworth owes us nothing Today’s Wentworth Miller story really upset me. This weekend, Wentworth Miller spoke about how the enormous pressure to hide that he was gay led to suicide attempts, beginning when he was 15 years old. Then, he says something even more heartbreaking – that even though he doesn’t remember the By Duana • Sep 09, 2013 12:42 pm
The Newsroom Nobody Hangs Out On The Studio Stairs The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 8 Well hello, and welcome to the first half of the season finale of The Newsroom. We are now in the throes of the aftermath of the sarin scandal – and also on election night, which I actually don’t have a problem with. Why not By Duana • Sep 09, 2013 11:40 am
Girls Don’t Save The World. Much. I do not like being a cliché. I really don’t. In fact, I struggle so much against doing things that are too ‘expected’ or in line with how I fit, demographically or by height or whatever that Lainey calls me contrary. I’m not – but I’m cranky when By Duana • Sep 06, 2013 04:06 pm
