Gorgessity Best Oscar Energy: Jessica Chastain What do you think she was singing? She was so upbeat and excited, you know she had some song in her head. Something upbeat and excited. "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"? I don't know. This is the excitement that is appropriate for one& By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 01:48 pm
Dumbass 20 at Oscar: Shailene Woodley I'm caught between empathy and irritation with Shailene Woodley. I'm not used to feeling these two things together so maybe if I explore the more benign one, the other will be slightly less annoying. I love vintage dresses. I have several that are, to me and By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 01:28 pm
BFFs Worst fulfillment of Oscar suspicions: Michelle Williams When I ranted about her on Friday, I felt good. And I got a surprising number of dirty-little-secret emails from you all saying that you quietly thought the same thing. That she was too cute, not straightforward enough, or that the shtick of awards season (and those past) had worn By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 01:06 pm
Smutty Surgery Worst Oscar Disappointment: Sandy Bullock Lainey thinks I'm contrary. I am not. (Lainey: she totally is.) But sometimes if there's an overwhelming opinion that comes at me before I've had a chance to make up my own mind, I will work hard to find validation in the other direction. By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 12:44 pm
Style Judy Greer as Oscar Judy Greer I mean, this is a hot, hot dress I guarantee you there were people there who were like "why didn't I get that dress? Is Monique Lhuillier mad at me?" Or maybe it was originally on someone of a higher...recognizability, and then it changed hands? By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 11:55 am
Style Post-Oscar Pink: Claire Danes I've been realizing that maybe I haven't given Claire enough credit for never boring me, fashion wise. In the last few years she's consistently turned up in things that are interesting, often shiny in unpredictable ways, or in colours a lot of people stay By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 11:22 am
Style How to do an after party by Diane Kruger This dress almost takes my breath away. This is how you do an after party. This is not an appropriate dress for the ceremony, because dear me, let us never reveal that we have sternum - but wow, is it ever stunning and appropriate for an event where your only By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 11:17 am
Style Best Oscar Satisfaction: Octavia Spencer Obviously nobody wants to use a cliche any more than they want to be a cliche, right? It's not flattering or bragworthy to say that what you do or have been doing can be summed up in a cliche or its sister, the catchphrase. But Octavia Spencer did By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 11:04 am
Dumbass Jonah Hill: Worst Oscar Expectations We talk soooo much about wanting the Oscar, or not wanting it. Campaigning, or not. This seems to be one step away from "being prepared if you win" or not. When Christopher Plummer took the stage last night, I felt relaxed almost instantly. He had us. He wasn& By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 10:17 am
BFFs Nearest Oscar Misses: Wiig & Rudolph Is it going to be obvious that I haven't slept if I say "Wiig & Rudolph" sounds like an animated show I'd like to see? These guys just make me feel so comfortable. Everyone else at the Oscars is arguably a crazy Hollywood person. By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 10:04 am
Aimee Teegarden Julie Taylor for Queen I love pilot season.So do lots of people, of course. It's like the draft pick for TV nerds. It's just so exciting when a show you've been hearing about gets picked up, or when you hear there's a chance that the By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 04:50 pm
Media Manipulation No TV Phillipe Part 2 The other part of the pilot season game is the speculation: the leaked scripts, the rumours, the revisions in who's actually right for the part (one of my favourite TV business phrases is "we went another way", closely followed by "that (pointless production or script By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 03:22 pm
Julia Roberts Michelle & Julia When Lainey and I write in the same room, it's long periods of silence or typing broken by intermittent screeches. We yell about whatever has gotten us excited, and then we go back to work. So a few minutes ago a picture of Julia Roberts got me thinking. By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 01:12 pm
Dumbass “Style” and “Grace” This one time at work we were standing around, and there was a fashion magazine and Brendon picked it up and flipped through, probably trying to find some stupid shoes to mock, and instead he grew disgusted as he flipped faster. And then he went "these are all children! By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 12:15 pm
Smash Nice is boring Smash Season 1 Episode 3 recap The Monday night-Tuesday morning corridor is full of recaps for me and this morning the boy asked which shows I was working on. When I explained House of Lies and Smash air on the same night, he went "oh, so a show about By Duana • Feb 21, 2012 04:01 pm
House of Lies Shame. It’s a house of shame, obviously House of Lies Season 1 Episode 7 recap So this is TV. While movies historically have been used to tell stories about the fantastic, incredible people who existed only in our wishes or trumped-up, watercoloured memories, television was always supposed to show people watching who they were. Who they are. By Duana • Feb 21, 2012 01:33 pm
