Emmy Awards 2022 Emmys High Point: Lizzo This tweet struck me tonight: I got close pic.twitter.com/btBymFMKQA — Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) September 13, 2022 First because who doesn’t love Henry Winkler, second because I’d bet money he wrote it himself – it’s not a good enough angle to be chosen by someone who cares By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 08:47 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Only UnderDogs In The Building If you haven’t met me (it’s been a minute) you are free to shout at me for not being a fan of Ted Lasso. It’s entirely personal, between me and sports and aw-shucks-ism, and I reserve the right to be into it in 12-15 years, but for By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 07:14 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Amanda Seyfried Left It With Lizzie You know what’s obnoxious about me? (How long do you have?) I’m a gloater. I can’t help it. Not when it’s going to hurt anyone else, or anything like that, but when Amanda Seyfried won the Emmy last night, I immediately smugged that I called it By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 06:04 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Kenan’s Easy Like Sunday Evening An ongoing theme of last night’s Emmys coverage is that there’s just more TV than even the most voracious among us can consume, so I won’t bother asking if anyone’s been watching How To with John Wilson – but that show is where I became aware of By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 05:16 am
Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Oscars 2022 Ariana DeBose, Rita, and Anita Make History Do you ever wonder how Best Supporting Actress came to be the first award presented? I remember when I figured out that it was always a crowd-pleaser, because everyone in that category is largely there for having had a blast in a role that wasn’t about how pretty they By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 07:00 am
Style Emmys Best Dressed (Duana): Writer Michaela Coel I’m going to be as plain as I know how. The reason it felt as though I May Destroy You deserved to win the other three Emmys it was nominated for is that it, and Michaela Coel, are better than the things that did win. I know how that By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 02:11 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Taraji and Issa: Closet-Floor Cool Lainey and Sarah and I write all our pieces separately, after a semi-haphazard rock-paper-scissors meeting to see who’s going to write what. So I don’t know what words they, or anyone else, is using to describe the looks last night at the Emmys – but I know the one By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 12:44 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Coolidge to Emmys: '...Hi...' I will admit that I’m not always the first one awake in my house. But on days when I am, like today, I am as liable as not to use the viral Jennifer Coolidge ‘hi’ to wake people. Just in case you haven’t had the pleasure: I don’ By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 12:28 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Debbie Allen: Four Canes to Honour a Legend Big cheers to Debbie Allen. I feel like, I don’t know, we’ve been kept informed of her career for a long time? Or that she was already a big deal, a trailblazer, back in the days of A Different World, where she would have first met Jada Pinkett-Smith By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 11:23 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmy Hacks Jean Smart got a standing ovation when she won her Emmy. No surprise, she’s been on an amazing upswing for years, from Fargo to Watchmen to here – which includes not only Hacks but another whole nomination for Mare of Easttown! She’s an utter pro and a joy to By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 09:51 am
Emmy Awards 2021 The Emmys Category Grab Bag Once upon a time, the ‘limited series’ category at the Emmys was known as “TV Movies and Miniseries” and it was code for ‘get a snack’, because almost nobody got the channels where said miniseries were, nobody saw them, and they were generally stultifying. Now ‘limited series’ create some of By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 09:01 am
Met Gala 2021 Keke Palmer Hosts the BEST Met Gala Carpet I want to know who it was. Who, at Vogue, had the foresight to know that Keke Palmer would absolutely transform the Met Gala carpet, which is crazy-loud in person but eerily quiet on live feeds… until now? Because I want that person to be my best friend, because they By Duana • Sep 14, 2021 12:25 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost Named A Baby Man, things have changed. It’s not just because of the pandemic, but how much more chill is this kind of birth announcement, via Colin Jost’s Instagram, than the publicist-released announcements we used to get hours after birth? (For added hilarity, if you still f-ck with Michael Che – and By Duana • Aug 19, 2021 01:15 pm
TV Updates Emmy Nominations 2021 are Closer Than Ever (Blanket statement before any analysis or commentary: eligibility for this year’s Emmys is from June 2020 to May 31, 2021 – loosely speaking, as long as *something* has aired during that period, the series can be nominated, but given that we were all locked inside before and after those dates, By Duana • Jul 13, 2021 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tick, Tick… Boom! There’s timing, and then there’s timing. There’s striking while the iron is hot, and there’s throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Opportunity vs. cashing in (creatively), and where tick, tick… Boom! is concerned, I’m not sure which is which. At least not By Duana • Jun 11, 2021 02:08 pm
