TV Updates Big Little Lies returns? The other day, in a big group of people, someone said no, they hadn’t watched Big Little Lies yet, and then commented, “It’s not about how cool you are for the shows you watch anymore, it’s curating listing the shows you don’t have time to watch, By Duana • Apr 11, 2017 01:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oprah, Uma, Ari, Eli Hi Duana, We just found out that we are having a second boy and we have no idea what to name him! Our first son's name is Ariel Nikolas P----r. We pronounce Ariel the way Sebastian from the Little Mermaid does and we call him Ari for short. By Duana • Apr 10, 2017 03:51 pm
TV Updates Smash, Scorned showrunners, and ‘Yes, And’ When I first read the Theresa Rebeck's essay about being fired from Smash that Entertainment Weekly ran, I was standing in a long lineup and immediately looked up, shocked that the line was still happening. Like, I somehow expected everyone else around me to have read it at By Duana • Apr 05, 2017 01:24 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bye Bye Birdie?* I am a longtime fan of your name column. I actually have a naming question about my two year old daughter's name, or, rather, her nickname. Should we at some point transition her to her real name? If so, when? As background: we have three wonderful daughters, Charlotte, By Duana • Apr 03, 2017 03:22 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: 5 year old ideas, 10 year old realizations Hi Duana, I'm excited to be writing to you! My husband and I are expecting our first, a girl due in early April. We've had boys names picked out for a while. His top pick was Lincoln, to be called Link and mine was Archer. We By Duana • Mar 31, 2017 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: You Only Know If You Know Hi Duana, We're English and I am currently pregnant with my second daughter and we can't find anything we LOVE. My first daughter is Lara (middle name Emilia) and we adore it. I still get a little thrill every time I tell people her name. It& By Duana • Mar 29, 2017 04:48 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Buffy, EW, and the Gift of Time The cast of Buffy is reunited in an Entertainment Weekly spread for the show’s 20th anniversary. Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz are on the cover, and if you squint, it’s not so far from the shots of them back in the day, right? When they appeared everywhere By Duana • Mar 29, 2017 04:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Benedict Cumberbatch’s Swaggy Second Son Looking back on my post about Benedict Cumberbatch’s first son, maybe the passage of time has mellowed me or maybe tastes have changed, but while Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch may be a little vanilla, it’s nothing to laugh at, it’s a fine name. Similarly, I didn’t understand By Duana • Mar 27, 2017 03:32 pm
Child Stars Millie Bobby Brown: Exhausted & ‘Mature’ So. So. Look, I am a big fan of advocating for people to take credit for their work, but there’s some stuff you don’t want to be right about, and this Millie Bobby Brown article from October is everything to do with why. When the story about her By Duana • Mar 27, 2017 01:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates In Multiples, Spring 2017 Well, here’s the thing about updates—sometimes I don’t have any for a while, and then I have some all at once… and I always value that some come in days after the baby’s born, and others are rounding the corner on becoming toddlers. That’s great, By Duana • Mar 24, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: So Shall It Be Done Hi Duana, On the Netflix show The 100, the main character's name is Clark and she is a woman. I love that name for a girl. Is 'Clark' becoming a trend for girls? Has this come up on the 'Duana Names'? Also, what about By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 04:19 pm
Amazingness Mean Girls: The Musical - For Nerds, By Nerds I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tina Fey is a choir nerd. It’s most clear to me from intense readings of Bossypants - she mentions that she was in audition-only choirs and it was a big deal, in a way that is clearly joking-but-not-joking. By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 12:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: His Arabic Name So, Lainey and Sasha answer this question today on the Sasha Answers podcast. Their answers were thoughtful and heartfelt, of course, but they asked me to weigh in specifically from a name point of view. It was an honour to try to help. I need some advice regarding my son. By Duana • Mar 21, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates This Is Only Some Of Us On Friday, I opened Messenger, texted Kathleen, and proceeded to ruin her day. I’ve been thinking about This Is Us all week and I’m not the only one —their Saturday night panel at PaleyFest was packed. The show is ridiculously successful in a time when both network shows By Duana • Mar 20, 2017 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Defying Categorization and 80s Soaps Hi Duana! I’m currently expecting baby #2 (due late April) and we are not finding out the sex. My husband and I truly love our daughter’s name – Ruby Kyoko. I know Ruby isn’t your favourite – too ‘pinteresty’ I think you said (haha!) but I just love it. By Duana • Mar 17, 2017 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: BIT OF A LONG ONE Hi Duana, I got married last month and hubby and I already have the appointment set for our IVF cycle next month – I am not getting any younger, you know... I am the anxious/planner one in the family, and then he makes the comment “I can’t wait for By Duana • Mar 15, 2017 05:38 pm
