Oscars 2024 Congrats to Robert Downey Jr … I suppose? So this is one of those wins that wasn’t a surprise, but that everyone was generally on board for, right? Robert Downey, Jr. has won all the awards leading up to this one, he’s universally acknowledged to have been excellent in the role, so this win should have By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 05:36 am
Gorgessity Selena Gomez: Emmys Best Dressed (Duana) I can’t say for sure that I know what song lyrics Selena Gomez had in her head while she was getting ready for the Emmy Awards, but if I had to guess, I’d bet it all on one line: “You know you that bitch when you cause all By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 01:19 pm
Emmy Awards 2024 Emmys Slink and Shimmy There are some shows where I really want the performer, or performers, to win awards and get recognized. Then there are some where I don’t. For example, I was really happy tonight that viewers who don’t know her might have learned Natasha Lyonne’s vibe a bit, when By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 11:07 am
Emmy Awards 2024 For Niecy, Winning Is A Very Big Deal/Dress Just when you thought you’d heard every possible way to do a great acceptance speech, along comes Niecy Nash Betts, who won for her role in Dahmer, rhyming off Evan Peters and Ryan Murphy, and then goes… “And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 07:48 am
Gorgessity Oprah Ultraviolets at the Golden Globes Okay, here’s a thought experiment: We’re always told that A-listers (or really, their stylists) confer with fashion houses before the major awards shows, securing looks their clients can wear at the myriad events awards season brings – and as we know, there’s a scramble to make sure the By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 01:56 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Emma Stone & The Gift for the Girl Who Has Everything Emma Stone won the Golden Globe last night for Poor Things, which could portend all kinds of interesting developments for the Oscars, but I’m not here to talk about that. It’s not that I don’t support the win – I do, and even for an accomplished and celebrated By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 12:56 pm
Hook Ups Ali Wong & Steven Yeun BEEF up When we were planning all our coverage last night, we talked about how some ensemble casts come in with high energy, feeling like it could be their night – like the Barbie group, who seemed to deflate a little bit more with each award bringing them closer to a shutout (I By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 10:56 am
TV Updates The Big Time Bear You know how it is when you fall in love, right? Not only does everything feel so wonderful and right, and not only do you want to introduce your new love to everyone in your life – your love seems relevant to every situation, right? If you’re part of the By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 08:24 am
Top Reads Judy Blume Knows Bullsh-t Judy Blume is 85 years old. On a press tour for the first time in almost ten years, for the movie Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, a hotly-anticipated adaptation of her uber-popular, formerly hyper-controversial book published over 50 years ago. This weekend, she was widely accused of By Duana • Apr 17, 2023 02:04 pm
TV Updates Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are The Americans again Is it your birthday? Congratulations. You’ve been given one of the amazing showbiz gifts we all long for. A unicorn, if you will – when art becomes life and everyone’s super happy about it. Last night the Paley Centre celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Americans, which seems both By Duana • Apr 13, 2023 02:45 pm
Oscars 2023 Duana’s Best Dressed: Rihanna The worst thing Lainey and I ever did where our analyses of awards show fashion year-over-year is concerned was to introduce the concept of lifetime achievement/ retirement. Because once we did it for Zendaya – a decision we stand behind – it became obvious that we would run into the same problems, By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 04:56 pm
Oscars 2023 One Woman, Still Talking It is amazing to me how many people were thrilled by Sarah Polley’s win last night. And the most disparate people, who to my knowledge would have no particular connection – I mean, not that they need one, any more than I do to, like, Nicole Kidman’s wardrobe, but By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 12:30 pm
Oscars 2023 Colin Farrell, Banshees, and The Terrible, Wonderful Luck of The Irish Why did you go see The Banshees of Inisherin? Even if I weren’t a writer on this site or a part of this industry, I would have seen it, sooner or later, because of the part Irish thing. Not that an Irish person in 2023 would agree with that By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 10:51 am
Oscars 2023 Nicole Kidman’s Best Actress Dress Code Nicole Kidman is a beautiful woman, no question. She’s tall and striking, no question. Is it absolutely beyond the pale for me to suggest that has nothing to do with why she looks so damn good all the time? I mean yes, it’s preposterous. Of course it’s By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 09:34 am
Equality Issues Cautiously Happy – Oscar Winner Brendan Fraser I wrote earlier that there were no bumps or missteps in last night’s production. Which is not to say there weren’t controversies. Brendan Fraser’s Best Actor Academy Award for The Whale was simultaneously one of the sweetest moments of the show, and one of the most upsetting By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 06:39 am
Oscars 2023 An On-The-Rails Oscars The production of the 95th Academy Awards went… well. There were no bumps, fumbles, mistaken awards or assaults. It went smoothly. Which – of course it did. After last year, and the correct calling-out of the Academy for doing effectively nothing about a live televised assault (it’s a word, okay? By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 05:12 am
