TV Updates Welcome Back to West Beverly High The video teaser I’m posting below is only 10 seconds long. It has exactly zero familiar faces in it. So how, exactly, is it so satisfying? Kathleen and I were talking this weekend about songs that get stuck in your DNA. Mostly Christmas carols or hymns – and pop songs By Duana • Feb 28, 2019 12:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Found The Needle! Hi, Duana! Hoping for some quick help. I've just found out that I'll be delivering at 34 weeks on March 11, due to some complications that have also landed me in the hospital on bed rest. All this time with nothing to do has me going By Duana • Feb 27, 2019 04:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee You guys. We have been so excited to share this episode with you, and it’s only the first of two delicious, long, fast-as-hell-paced deep-dive conversations with the incredible Joe Zee. Part of the reason we started Show Your Work is because, especially (but not only) in show business, people By Duana • Feb 27, 2019 01:54 pm
Oscars 2019 Awkwafina: Oscar Best Dressed (Duana) I loved this the moment I saw it, and then it grew on me from there. It was kitschy! It was sparkly! It was totally Awkwafina, and also not like anything we’d seen her wear before – or, if it is, it feels new, and that’s part of it. By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:45 pm
Oscars 2019 Lady Gaga: Oscar Worst Dressed (Duana) Yes, it is glamourous. Some would say it’s a 7-year-old girl’s version of glamorous, what with the long gloves, but let’s not quibble. Yes, it is ‘appropriate’ to win your first Oscar in, as proven. Yes, it is slightly more unusual because it has the black ‘hips’ By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:39 pm
Oscars 2019 Chadwick Boseman Knows What Oscar Wants Everyone on social media is using the same picture of Chadwick Boseman on the red carpet, in front of that weird corridor-photo wall they had this year. It’s this one: Partly, it’s because you can clearly see his floor-length caftan jacket of awesome, it was tough going to By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 01:56 pm
Oscars 2019 What’s In JLo’s Oscar Mirror? Let’s get one thing very, very clear here. Jennifer Lopez looked stunnnning last night. It’s not just that she’s beautiful, which she is – but that dress is a treat for the eyes. I never, ever got tired of looking at it, from every multi-faceted angle, which of By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 01:44 pm
Oscars 2019 Melissa McCarthy Won’t Let Me I wanted to be annoyed. Melissa McCarthy was the long-shot nominee for a fantastic performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me, and even though I knew, and you knew, and she knew, that it was never going to happen, I wanted more people to treat it like it was a By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 10:15 am
Oscars 2019 Rami Malek’s Epic One-Night Story God, that kiss was hot. We’ll get to the kiss, I promise. On Show Your Work, and here, I’ve wished nominees would prepare their speeches, have something to say if they get up there and win – not everyone can be flummoxed as adorably as Olivia Colman. But they By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 09:28 am
Top Reads We Don’t Deserve Best Actress Olivia Colman I really don’t understand Twitter sometimes. I know a statement like that makes me sound too young, naïve, sheltered and privileged to be allowed chocolate milk, let alone unaccompanied access to one of the internet’s most reliable joke factories that sometimes doubles as a dumpster fire. But look, By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 06:51 am
Oscars 2019 Sarah Paulson, Queen of the Not-Pretty Pinks You will not catch me complaining that the surprise trend colour of the night was hot pink. There were furrowed-brow debates on the pre-shows as experts discussed which would be the surprise colour of the night, earnestly wondering whether navy’s time had come or if it might be a By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 05:45 am
Oscars 2019 Amy, Tina, and Maya MeanGirled the Academy You may think that term has been overused and doesn’t mean much anymore, but how often do you get to use it on the O.G.s anyway? As Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey pointed out, they were not the Oscars hosts, despite being the first people By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:20 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Purgatory Panic Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second boy in just four weeks and we are stuck in name purgatory. We had our hearts set on August but our families lambasted us on that months ago and we haven’t been able to recover the original spark we By Duana • Feb 22, 2019 04:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Found Something Amazing, Now More Searching Hi Duana, Baby #2 is on the way in February and we've just found out it's another boy. Our first is Baden Eric. My partner suggested Baden ("bay-din") as a future baby name after we went for a little hike on the Baden-Powell Trail By Duana • Feb 20, 2019 04:10 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Brie Larson Puts Money Where Captain Marvel’s Mouth Is It’s the week of the OSCARS! We’ve been doing this for a while, so we didn’t expect to be quite this excited, but between the honest-to-goodness race, the who-knows-what’s-gonna-happen, and Lainey’s new friend who might go with us to LA (check out her Instagram to By Duana • Feb 20, 2019 12:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: She Drives Me Crazy Hi! The discussion of naming - and specifically, car-naming, on Show Your Work this week directly inspired this email. See, I've had my "new" car for two years now, and keep trying to name her, but nothing has stuck. My "old" car - a By Duana • Feb 15, 2019 05:23 pm
