Good for Gossip Hugh Grant, Globes ‘Paddington’ Presenter I am fond of hyperbole but I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I cried laughing when Seth introduced ‘from Divorce, Sarah Jessica Parker, and from Paddington Bear 2, Hugh Grant!’ It was a belated Christmas present I didn’t know I needed. First of all, I am By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 05:45 am
Golden Globes 2018 Hong Chau at the Golden Globes Let us now have a summary of Hong Chau’s night at the Golden Globes, shall we? She was nominated for her role in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, which is kind of notable on its own, because the movie is…not considered to be that great. As in 51% ‘Rotten’ By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 04:06 am
Golden Globes 2018 Seth Meyers hosts Golden Globes, with Assists Let’s be real here – the Golden Globes hosting gig is 92% the opening monologue, because, as everyone tweets at 9:42pm ET, you forget that there was a host at all. The exception was in the Amy & Tina years, and we’ll get to those in a second. By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 02:47 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Because Of Course You Did* Hi Duana, When we got pregnant with our first boy, and then our second, the naming process was quite easy on both occasions and went a little something like this: (i) I suggested my top boy name to my husband; (ii) he really liked it; (iii) over the next several By Duana • Jan 05, 2018 03:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Jack (Jackie? Jacqueline?) Of All Names… Hi Duana, I absolutely love your column and baby name advice - if I ever have any baby name questions your column will be the first place I go! This, however, is not about any future children. This is about my, and my fiancé's, married names. Here is By Duana • Jan 03, 2018 04:37 pm
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman Is Probably Better Than Me Happy New Year! You guys, I’m loving the optimism I’m seeing online. Obviously Time’s Up has been a real jolt of positivity, but even the New Year memes are all about how things have got to look up this year. I’m into it. In fact, I’ By Duana • Jan 02, 2018 11:50 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Gift Came Early! Though it’s not an exact science, as I’ve mentioned, I try to answer name questions before the due dates of the arrivals, if that’s practical. But sometimes things get more complicated than that. Here’s an email I got in August: Hi Duana, We are expecting our By Duana • Dec 22, 2017 01:30 pm
Name Nerd Mindy Kaling’s Daughter Katherine You know how there’s a word for all kinds of things in German that English doesn’t have a reference for? What’s the word for ‘I kind of got played and I think I like it’? Please advise. Okay, ‘played’ is too strong a word, probably. But the By Duana • Dec 20, 2017 12:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Have To Hold Back The Title Hi Duana, I am expecting our second child and while I had every intention to get feedback with the first, he made his debut a month early and I was still fully in denial I was to become a mother. He went nameless for 2 days in the hospital however By Duana • Dec 18, 2017 04:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Will We Ever Find Love Again? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name advice for our second baby girl, due in December! I'm Indian, and my husband is American, and while I'd like a name that works in both contexts, I think it's more important that we just By Duana • Dec 15, 2017 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Kitchen Sink Names Duana, I have forever been infatuated with names, I love how much they say with so little. I have kept a list of names for years - not necessarily for potential children, but simply because I appreciate them. Now, faced with naming an actual human I'm coming up By Duana • Dec 12, 2017 03:59 pm
Kristen Bell Golden Globes TV Noms – Not Boring This is when being ‘contrary’ gets you into trouble. For the record, I don’t think I choose the alternate perspective all the time, but some people, like 90% of the staff of this blog, seem to think I do, and usually I can mount a rousing defense. Today though, By Duana • Dec 11, 2017 01:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Schroedinger’s Name Hi Duana, My husband and I are pregnant with our first child and CANNOT agree on a name. More specifically, we cannot agree on a boy's name. (We aren't finding out the baby's sex.) He's convinced me of his choice for a By Duana • Dec 08, 2017 04:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Letter Writing Win, Name Jury Out Hey Duana! So here we go - shouldn't be too long. I'm due w/ my second in early December (now) - it's a girl, we have a boy at home. His name is Mirko (middle name Augustus - family name), last name is a By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 05:03 pm
TV Updates Mae, Christina & Retta are Good Girls I only lasted 18 seconds. I watched the trailer for Good Girls, which premieres on NBC next February, and liked it almost instantly – but I only lasted 18 seconds before I punched the space bar to pause in some kind of rage-endorsement, and wrote the following in an email to By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 01:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is It Too Close? Can It Be Too Close? N.B. – The letter writer points out that the content may be upsetting, proceed with caution. Dear Duana, This is a heavy baby name question, and I imagine it could be quite painful to some of your readers. Five years ago I had a daughter who died shortly after birth By Duana • Dec 01, 2017 03:51 pm
