Lifestyle Duana Names: What Does it Mean To ‘Royal’? Hi Duana, I don't usually do this sort of thing, but I'm writing this with fingers and toes crossed that you respond to this email as I'm coming up empty for our third (and most likely last) child's name. It was so By Duana • Mar 16, 2018 04:42 pm
TV Updates John Legend’s Jesus. As for the Superstar… Last week, thinking about Emma Stone at the Oscars, I wrote about how many things would have to go wrong to constitute a bad day. Today I’m contemplating the opposite – you know when things are shaping up to give you a really good day? So far today, the weather By Duana • Mar 14, 2018 03:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: That Would Be Enough Hi Duana! We are due with baby girl number 2 in March and I'm stuck on loving-but-questioning the name Tory. I can't remember where this name came to me from but I already find myself calling her "Baby Tory" in my head, for some By Duana • Mar 13, 2018 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If You Please Hi Duana, I’m not sure if your name suggestions extend to pets, but here goes nothing! I am getting two Siamese kittens from the same litter this month, a male lilac point Siamese and a female chocolate point Siamese. Adorable pics attached! I already know I am going to By Duana • Mar 09, 2018 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: This Is Why Not Hey Duana! I am a bit of a name-junkie myself, and have carved out what I see as the *perfect* names for our little family. Growing up I was the only "C" name in a sea of "J' names (literally almost everyone in my family, 30+ By Duana • Mar 07, 2018 05:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary Poppins Will Make LMM Busier When the entirety of Post-Oscar Monday passed without my having written about Lin-Manuel Miranda, I have to admit I felt a bit bad about it. But there wasn’t really a story to tell about him at the Oscars, because even though he’s charming, his red carpet appearances were By Duana • Mar 06, 2018 03:02 pm
Style The Tiffany Haddish Problem Behold my Tiffany Haddish problem: If we write about everything Tiffany Haddish did that was amazing and exciting last night, we will be here for 2500 years. It was only a four hour show! Counting the carpet, five. I guess. But even within that time – when Tiffany Haddish was a By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 04:57 pm
Oscars 2018 Not Emma Stone’s Night If one wonky thing happens to me in a day, I barely notice. If there are three – an annoying work call, a gross lunch, and a traffic jam, I might feel entitled to grump around for 15 minutes when I get home, even though what I just described is basically By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 02:54 pm
Jordan Peele Jordan Peele’s Get Out Oscar This was another one of those articles we all wanted to write. I think because Get Out affected each of us in a particular way. As I mentioned on Show Your Work, I only watched it recently, but have been thinking about it ever since. Awards for Get Out started By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 01:53 pm
Oscars 2018 Jennifer Lawrence and Friends The day after the Oscars we all have writing ebbs and flows, but I was doing OK productivity-wise until we started talking about the ages of various presenters/ nominees/ winners, and then I realized I’ve done nothing with my life and should probably just give up now. Yes, I By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 01:00 pm
Oscars 2018 Kumail Nanjiani Won The Oscars He didn’t, of course. He and his wife Emily V. Gordon were nominated for their screenplay The Big Sick and didn’t win, though it picked up Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards the night before. I was anxious about this – The Big Sick was a totally By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 12:01 pm
Oscars 2018 Badass Emma Watson’s Bad Grammar Thank God for Vanity Fair and the other parties, which have changed from being exclusive events where nominees sometimes changed clothes and avoided the ‘novelty invite’ people, to still-exclusive events that, it is acknowledged, might be more fun than the main event and give stars a chance to shake things By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 11:05 am
Oscars 2018 When Frances McDormand Says Jump… Remember Frances McDormand being surprised at her win? Or if not surprised (because she’s won every award all season and actively asked people to stop voting for her), then kind of flustered? Did you wonder why? Apparently because if she had to go through the irritation of actually winning By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 10:05 am
Oscars 2018 Sandra Bullock owns the Oscars Let’s get one thing out of the way – if you are part of a group of Practical Magic superfans who have been given a private gift of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in the same frame together, I’m very happy for you and I promise to watch the By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 08:03 am
Oscars 2018 We Owe Greta Gerwig You might think we embellish the ‘fighting over who to write about on Oscar night’ bit but it really is a battle bordering on a brawl. We’re snide and opinionated and call ‘mine!’ like four year olds as soon as the name we want comes up. When we got By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 07:04 am
Oscars 2018 Mindy & BJ: Vanity Fair Teasing? The following is not what’s foremost in my mind about the night. It’s not what I got the most mail about. But it is what I got the most urgent, searching mail about. My friend Lauren easily, overtly loves the Oscars more than anyone I know. But even By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 04:53 am
