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
Lifestyle Duana Names: Foxy. Hi Duana, I recently found out I am pregnant and my husband and I are throwing names back and forth. Last night he threw out Fox as a boy option. Fox is a family last name that has ended - there are no more. It's in many of By Duana • Sep 05, 2013 11:57 am
Lifestyle Duana Name: Small Screen, Big Names Hi Duana. I have two daughters. My eldest is Piper - I love the name as soon as I heard it on Charmed back in the day. Thankfully, my husband liked it as well. My second daughter was supposed to be named Ivy but someone stole the name 3 weeks By Duana • Sep 03, 2013 11:33 am
Name Nerd Guess How I Feel About Axl Jack I don’t understand why people insist on doing this to me. I try to be open-minded and see a world of possibilities for everyone, not merely limiting my opinions and statements to my preferences because in addition to being pretty dicky, that’s so boring. Woo, differences! They make By Duana • Aug 30, 2013 12:52 pm
Girls Lena Dunham covers Marie Claire UK Lena Dunham is on the cover of Marie Claire UK. I have zero expertise in magazine covers, like I don’t know what makes one sell or not, but this doesn’t appeal to me at all. It’s awkward, right? Still, I think it’s cool that she’s By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 05:01 pm
TV Updates Super Fun Girl Time Look at this picture that Aubrey Plaza tweeted yesterday. It’s of she and Rashida Jones and Tatiana Maslany, obviously going to or coming from the Parks & Rec set. Don’t they look like they’re having fun? Maslany is doing a guest stint as Tom Haverford’s love By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 04:21 pm
BFFs Workout Buddy: For or Against? I’m not sure about the whole ‘working out with a friend’ thing. I like the idea a lot in theory, but I’m not sure it works in practice. Sasha and I worked out together for the longest time. It was super fun but we were always trying to By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 03:56 pm
Scandal Lisa Kudrow is Scandalous? This is mainly very good news. You know what I love? Scandal. You know who I love? Lisa Kudrow. Of all the actors and especially, of all the people who would kind of rather we forgot that they were famous from a show that began in the mid-90s, Lisa Kudrow By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 02:24 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Do You Know It’s The Perfect Name? Hi Duana, A friend of mine suggested I get your opinion on the name we picked for our daughter because now that it's becoming a reality, I am starting to feel uncertain. I'm not uncertain because I don't like the name, but rather because By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 01:31 pm
Girly Throw Downs On Being Lame I couldn’t sleep last night, so I read, but one of the things that made it a little easier was that I discovered a book I forgot I bought on the Kindle. This is obviously an occupational hazard of the Kindle phenomenon and I play right into it. I By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 01:25 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Hayden Bangs in a Tight Dress What do you think of Hayden’s new haircut? I’m not sure I’m totally in. But the thing is that the blunt-bangs cut almost never lasts. It always feels like a new, sharp cut but nobody maintains them for long, do they? In fact, the only person who By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 12:48 pm
Break Ups Michael and Catherine “working on it” I found this phrasing pretty interesting, didn’t you? I mean, it’s not the boilerplate divorce statement: “best for us to part company, we still care, please respect our privacy at this time”. They say they’re taking time while they ‘evaluate and work on their marriage’. There’s By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 12:32 pm
