Lifestyle Duana Names: I am G. Elizabeth Lastname I don't like my first name - Gillian. I can't seem to say it so people hear it... people always hear it as 'Joanne', and I always want to ask them how old they think I am because nobody in my generation is called By Duana • Sep 25, 2017 05:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bonne Chance, Duana! Dear Duana, We are expecting our second child in the next few days, unexpectedly early because of some medical concerns. So, while we had a bit of time on our side (and don't feel like we MUST land on A name before baby arrives), I'm now By Duana • Sep 22, 2017 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Knew You Could Do It All Along Duana! This is a long overdue thank you and update on my request for help naming our third child. You were right about the similarities between our two oldest sons names, and we had decided on a name that was also a "thing," was a family name and By Duana • Sep 20, 2017 04:17 pm
Bad Style Reese Witherspoon: Emmys Worst Dressed (Duana) Maybe I’m sleep deprived, but my first thought upon seeing Reese Witherspoon’s dress when she went up to accept the Emmy for Big Little Lies was, ohhh, interesting, she chose a ‘producer’ outfit rather than an ‘actress’ dress. Lainey’s response was, “That’s a way to defend By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 02:22 pm
Style Lena Waithe: Emmys Best Dressed, Best Prepped (Duana) If we have learned one thing from Taylor Swift, it is that there is no charm in fake surprise at an awards show win. Genuine surprise makes great TV – the gasping and gulping and ‘you like me!’ that fuels social media the next day—but the calm, faux splutter of By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 12:57 pm
Sit DOWN Shailene Woodley: The Emmy “reader” Imagine that you are lucky enough to be involved in the biggest project of the year, at your work, say. Imagine too that you are plucked to be among much more experienced, celebrated, talented people who have been working juuuust about as long as you’ve been alive. Imagine having By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 11:40 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Donald Glover’s Earnest Emmys Come on now. When’s the last time we saw someone react quite like this? I tweeted earlier that this was a game changer for Donald Glover in what was already a game-changer of a year. Atlanta is a hit, he’s a new dad (about to be again, apparently By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 11:17 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Zoe Kravitz: Emmy Colour Couture I love colour, especially in clothes. I am a sucker for a rainbow stripe, I rarely go for a black dress, and I inevitably wind up whining/wiggling my way out of writing about certain people during our awards show wraps because I haaaate nude/neutral dresses. This Zoe Kravitz By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 08:45 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Kate & Alec: Emmy ‘Supporting’ Comedy There was more, this year, about SNL than in… almost decades. That sounds insane, but it’s true—and you heard Lorne Michaels say so in one of the most dour acceptance speeches in my memory. Maybe he was tired from having won four more trophies last week, but you By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 08:01 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Emmy Expected Win You know what it was that did it? It was that one particular line during VEEP’s win for Best Comedy Series. Showrunner David Mandel, in his speech, said they had a “no asshole policy” on the show “…and everyone abides by it except Julia”. And everybody laughed. That was By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 07:32 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Samira Wiley: Emmys Unsung Star The only tiny downside of the amazing spate of shows that got to fight for acclaim last night is that when everything is this good, not only are the shows themselves not always acknowledged (I was almost able to spare you guys my regular ranting about The Americans), but when By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 06:29 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Laura Dern: Best Emmy’s Truthbomb I need a word for the kind of fan you are when you really like something, but you cede the official title of ‘fan’ to someone who lives and breathes it. I watched the Emmys last night and realized I LOVE Laura Dern. Always have, not just because she did By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 05:38 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Gina Rodriguez: Best Effortless Emmy Gina Rodriguez makes it look easy. Even when presenting with Shemar Moore, who seems like one of those dudes who gets more attention than he’s entitled to no matter what project is happening, she’s charming, cool enough, in a spectacular dress that makes lesser publications think truly terrible By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 03:37 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Garlic Of Names Dear Duana, Help! My husband and I are expecting our second child in two weeks and my husband and I still haven't settled on a name for our little man. With our 2 year old daughter, we had an easy time because we both loved her name - By Duana • Sep 15, 2017 04:26 pm
Music Blake Shelton Thinks My Job Is Easy My favourite off-book celebrity conversation these days is ‘who do you think is for real?’ Whose tweets, whose self-deprecating Instagram captions, whose appealingly honest posts are real reflections of who they might be? Until yesterday, it would never have occurred to me to include Blake Shelton in the analysis one By Duana • Sep 14, 2017 04:28 pm
Douchebags Amber Tamblyn’s ‘Scorched Earth’ for James Woods On Tuesday, after James Woods dismissed Amber Tamblyn’s claim that he tried to pick her up as ‘a lie’, this is how she responded on Twitter: Calling me liar, James? This is now far from over. That I can promise.— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) September 12, 2017 24 hours later, By Duana • Sep 14, 2017 02:06 pm
