Lifestyle Duana Names: Rules! Made to be Broken? Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in March and we are waiting to find out the sex. We are happy with a slew of girl names *(Margaret, Josephine, Penelope) but we are stuck on a boy’s name. WE want a name that “fits” with our first son’ By Duana • Mar 13, 2017 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Nerd Seeks Same Hi Duana! I’ve always been a name nerd as well, it’s so nice to read about a kindred spirit! Like you, I loved reading baby name books when I was younger. Kathleen sounds like a common name but I was always the only one and there were NEVER By Duana • Mar 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Course Correction Hi Duana, We are due this summer, so not for a while, but I feel like this baby naming thing is a big task and the more time we give it, the better. I come from a family of really good names. I have a strong 3-syllable name (Kennedy) that By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 05:11 pm
Equality Issues Maria nominates: Duana’s Ghostbusters crew In August 2015, almost a year before the all-female Ghostbusters was released, Duana wrote about an Instagram photo posted by Melissa McCarthy of the crew - all the women with their job titles specifically noted. Today Maria is nominating this post to revisit, on International Women’s Day, as we By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 04:07 pm
Equality Issues Joanna nominates: Duana on Allison Williams In Joanna’s words: I nominate Duana’s The No-Podcast Would-Be Episode of Show Your Work. I’ve been an avid listener of the podcast since it launched (remember “Working Class”?), but aside from the Dwayne Johnson-Anna Kendrick-shut down Jimmy Fallon mega episode from November, my favourite edition has to By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 03:35 pm
TV Updates I Don’t Want More Gilmore Girls Well, it’s been nice working here at LaineyGossip and existing under my own face and name on the internet, but I assume those days are over. Because when I read the headline that there might be more Gilmore episodes on Netflix, I thought... nah, I’m good. Which I By Duana • Mar 07, 2017 04:18 pm
Girls The Work of Girls I know the world needs less narcissism and not more. Still, indulge me for a second in thinking that the fact that I wasn’t able to watch the third episode of Girls season 6, “American Bitch”, until now is fortuitous, not unfortunate. The whole season has been rocketing along By Duana • Mar 07, 2017 03:41 pm
Top Reads Emma Watson, Evolving Feminism, and “T-ts” So Emma Watson is an actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She defined feminism as “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” She’s currently in the middle of a massive promotional campaign for Beauty and the Beast. Hence her March cover of Vanity Fair. By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 03:57 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Natalie Portman’s Pre-Oscar Baby A Early in the week of the Oscars, Natalie Portman released a statement saying she wouldn’t be attending either the big show or the Independent Spirit Awards, ‘on doctor’s orders’. Turns out that was because her daughter arrived on February 22nd, and I swear up and down that she By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 02:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does It Matter? Does ANYTHING? Hi there! First name nerd advice-seeker here. I wrote to you four years ago to get your take on our first child's name, a boy we called Theodore Roland Giguere Hodes. I need general name advice, but also want your take on something. I fancy myself a feminist, By Duana • Mar 03, 2017 03:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Lest We Name Him Tarzan Shaggy Hi Duana, As crazy as this sounds, I am expecting our fourth child in April. We already have 3 little boys and I love love love all their names. We have Emmett (from way before 'Emmett' was a thing), Andrew and Patrick. As you can see, we are By Duana • Mar 01, 2017 05:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beauty And The Beast And The First… First, a quick check-in. Are we still excited about Beauty And The Beast, or beaten down by unending press stories about it, or both? Assuming it’s the latter, today’s is more than just the average story; director Bill Condon announced that the character 'Lefou' will be By Duana • Mar 01, 2017 05:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights on the big screen I guarantee the number one question Lin-Manuel Miranda is asked by people who don’t know is “When is Hamilton going to be a movie?” He always answers “Oh… eventually”, which is polite because it doesn’t say what I would say, which is ‘what, being the most successful Broadway By Duana • Mar 01, 2017 04:11 pm
TV Updates Auli’i Cravalho backs it up I’ve never really gone in much for ‘putting it out into the universe’ but I’m going to have to start. Because no sooner did I say that Auli’i Cravalho was going to be a star, than the announcement came out that she’ll star in the NBC By Duana • Mar 01, 2017 12:08 pm
Bad Style Charlize Theron: Oscar Worst Dressed (Duana) Want to know a little tidbit I am embarrassed to know? Charlize Theron and I share a birthday. Not the year, but the day. Also David Duchovny, if you really want to know. It’s not exactly why I always think of her as being stalwart and around, but it By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 06:28 pm
Style Janelle Monae: Best Dressed (Duana) Janelle Monae is smarter than me. I know. I’m not surprised either. And yet. I’ve been loving how much Janelle Monae we’ve gotten this awards season, the double-dip of having her in two big showy casts. I love her pattern of speaking, I love her excitement-crossed-with-demure attitude, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 05:54 pm
