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
Baby and Bump Obsession Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr Lainey asked me on an episode of Show Your Work what my guess would be for the name of Serena Williams’ baby. I went with Celestine. Sounds like Venus, sounds like Serena… and above all, there’s a regal air to it. That’s what I was aiming at most. By Duana • Sep 13, 2017 04:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Ambivalence A Good Name? Hello Duana, I’m going to be honest, I’m fairly indifferent about baby names. I lost interest in my early 30s when I was terminally single, mildly depressed and surrounded by new mums discussing the merits of naming their baby Otis, Iggy, Milo or Evie. So now at the By Duana • Sep 11, 2017 04:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Fifths, Family Names, and New Frontiers Hi Duana, Hopefully this email finds you doing well! Your column is always fascinating and insightful. These days, it's also a welcome break from the world. Thank you for the work you put into it. My husband and I are about to be first time parents and we& By Duana • Sep 06, 2017 05:06 pm
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Magic School Bus It’s week one of our Show Your Work hiatus, and already Lainey and I have sent a dozen articles back and forth that could have been included or that might be fodder for Season 2. If we were doing an episode today, Lin-Manuel Miranda singing the new theme song By Duana • Sep 05, 2017 03:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: …Which is Fine, I Guess Hi Duana, I’m so happy to be writing to you! It’s taken us awhile to get here and I’ve been reading your column and book for a while, hoping to write someday with a name question of our own. We are due this fall, and we found By Duana • Aug 30, 2017 04:27 pm
