SAG Awards 2018 Saoirse Ronan Cements Stardom ~Prelude~ Stupid “So, you’re Irish!” question of the night: Guiliana Rancic told Saoirse Ronan that she heard that actually had trouble saying some ‘American’ words. Which made me roll my eyes, as per usual, but then of course, Saoirse Ronan is somehow able to make the anecdote charming, talking By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 11:33 am
SAG Awards 2018 Allison Janney: SAG Seventh Win Is it not amazing how the movies and shows and performances get shifted or elevated or changed in your mind? I saw I, Tonya before it was in wide release, so those who had seen it at film festivals were mostly talked out and everyone who hadn’t seen it By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 09:53 am
SAG Awards 2018 You Need Gina Rodriguez In Your Life I am all about the SAG awards having only female presenters, and it was pleasantly not noticeable in the way that men must feel all the time but I was of the opinion that Gina Rodriguez presenting with Megan Mullally was a slightly odd pairing, first of all, and a By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 08:34 am
SAG Awards 2018 Kristen Bell, First Host The SAG awards doesn’t get enough credit for being its own kind of weirdo awards show. It’s mercifully brief, there aren’t really ‘bits’ aside from the whole “I am an actor” business, and am I the only one who likes the whole long, slanted tables so nobody’ By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 07:28 am
Name Nerd CHICAGO WEST Noooooope this is not the way any of us thought this was going to go. Not one of us. Don’t you lie. Nobody saw this coming. About a month ago Lainey really latched onto my suggestion of ‘Truth’ -- and I mean, based on ‘North’ and ‘Saint’, I felt By Duana • Jan 19, 2018 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can You Mourn The Loss Of A Name? I’m out of breath typing this because we are OUT. OF. TIME. and maybe it makes no sense to be winded when I’m not doing anything but typing, but we’ve reached full-scale freak out. Writing this for my friend who is having her baby boy by next By Duana • Jan 17, 2018 04:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Written Word Edition There was never any doubt that we would discuss the 1.5 million dollar pay disparity between Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, but in a development that *never* happens, the longer we put off talking about it, the better the story got. The USA Today article with all the details By Duana • Jan 15, 2018 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Happy New Name Updates! What, you’ve never made a bad pun when you’re titling something? Look, sometimes it’s just how it is, OK? But we get to revisit a few titles as I have a great backlog of updates. First up, an update on the family dilemma presented in SOCCERSTAR! Hi By Duana • Jan 12, 2018 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Got It – But What IS It? Hi Duana, I'm so excited to be writing to you! When I first stumbled across your column I was pretty stunned - I had no idea other "name nerds" existed. I still have a beaten-up bright pink baby name book (straight from the 80s) that has By Duana • Jan 11, 2018 04:13 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Nicole Kidman’s Golden Globe for Big Little Lies What’s the expression for something you both like and dislike about yourself? I have this persistent tendency towards optimism. It’s surprising because I’m also a frequently cranky and a know-it-all, but weird annoying positivity shows up at the weirdest times. Right now I feel like I should By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 03:04 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Saoirse Ronan Wins for Lady Bird and Greta Let’s get my gripes out of the way off the top. I didn’t hear anyone mispronounce Saoirse Ronan’s name last night, but I did catch an interview on the NBC Red Carpet where they goggled, “Is it true? Was the Prom in the movie your very first By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 02:28 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Gal Gadot & The Rock Globes Love I started to write this article and Word quit on me twice in succession. While I was praying for it to right itself, and determined not to lose momentum, I went online to see if I could find the clip of Gal Gadot and Dwayne The Rock Johnson presenting tonight… By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 01:27 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Elisabeth Moss: Globes Good Girl It’s an ironic title, given the subject matter of The Handmaid’s Tale and the fact that social media keeps that dangling-cigarette-and-sunglasses shot of Peggy Olsen sharply in all our minds. But when Elisabeth Moss won last night and ran up onstage looking delighted, and then earnestly read the By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 12:24 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Kerry Washington’s Secret Red Carpet Skill Unpopular opinion ahead – Kerry Washington does not get the credit she deserves. Yes, she’s the lead on an incredibly successful show, a wealthy actress with beauty privilege who is, as Lainey once pointed out to me, the queen of endorsement campaigns. I’m not saying she’s suffering. But By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 11:47 am
Golden Globes 2018 Michelle Williams’ Red Carpet Star Turn I know ‘star turn’ is a kind of great-auntly expression for a role that turns someone into a star, but I’m being much more literal about it. I haven’t stopped thinking all night about a turn Michelle Williams executed in a conversation that was just about surgical. Remember By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 10:37 am
Golden Globes 2018 Allison Janney’s Next Move I would never write anything uncharitable about Allison Janney. It’s unthinkable. But since I began writing this article there have been three rolling blackouts at my house, which is not usual at 5 AM so I have to wonder if I should be doing this at all. But for By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 10:00 am
