Emmy Awards 2013 Emmys Most Insufferable: Allison Williams Big blue dress – check. Stacked weird black chunky heels – check. Weird sense of overblown entitlement because you’ve been singled out as the “conventionally pretty one” from Girls? Ohhhh, check. Allison Williams appears to think she is a fashion girl now. I’m not saying she’s not – she may By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 11:35 am
Gorgessity Emmys Most Improved: Elisabeth Moss WOW, this girl. I’ve been on kind of a renewed crush cycle with her since that video from last spring where she and the other maybe-nominees (sorry, Monica Potter) discussed their lives as actresses, and she had fun and was lively and excited. When I saw her tonight I By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 11:00 am
Emmy Awards 2013 Worst Emmys Styling Overall: Vera Farmiga Sasha and I don’t see each other daily anymore workwise. We did, but it was years ago. However, last fall it so happened that we started to run into each other on the daily again, and the first or second day, she surveyed my outfit and said “Oh right. By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 10:37 am
Bad Hair Worst Emmy Tendrils: Malin Akerman Okay, so we know there’s a hierarchy to these things, right? All the dresses are chosen in sequence of who gets to wear them, with the best going first, and the last ones going to the guest stars or wives or ladies Of A Certain Age. Malin Akerman isn’ By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 09:58 am
Thinnification Emmys Worst Thinnification: Julianna Margulies I think I’ve been clear here, before, that I really like the Marg. I spell her name wrong with regularity, of course, but I like her. She’s always kind of got some quiet sass about her, rocking the latter part of her career, and she knows exactly what’ By Duana • Sep 23, 2013 09:46 am
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
