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
Top Reads Emma Stone Has An Oscar Hands up if you like Emma Stone – as an actress, not just a cute personality. Keep them up if you think she’s one of the best of her ‘class’. That is, if you think she can hold her own against Michelle Williams, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Anna Kendrick? Yeah, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 04:40 pm
Oscars 2017 Denzel Washington: Worst Oscar Night So I know a little bit about acting. Not a lot. One of the things I know, though, is that the term itself can be a little bit of a misnomer. It’s not necessarily about ‘acting’ as in pretending to be sad or joyous or whatever, but about accessing By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 03:44 pm
Oscars 2017 Viola Davis: Most Anticipated Oscar I didn’t think the show last night felt long. Don’t get me wrong, it was—but because of last night’s tight races and unpredictability, the time seemed to go by quickly, unlike other years where it’s just an eventuality for a win. That made Viola Davis By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 02:40 pm
Oscars 2017 Oscar Meryl 20 There were a number of people at the show last night (and one who wasn’t at the show. So much power to you, Natalie Portman), who knew they had absolutely no chance of winning. None. Sometimes Oscar races are legitimate-ish races, and there’s more and less likely contenders, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 02:00 pm
Top Reads Ryan Gosling – Most Oscar Obfuscating It’s hard to remember now, but back in the day, before Hey Girl and then the intense desire to not be Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling kind of sometimes had a sense of humour. An offbeat one for sure, and it didn’t always come out to play, but it By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 12:42 pm
Oscars 2017 Taraji P Henson & Octavia Spencer: Oscar BFFs Good sweet LORD, Taraji P. Henson, you looked like something else last night. The dress and the hair and the sleepy-smoky eye makeup. Obviously she’s fantastic looking and has had other great looks this awards season, but this one, even though it wasn’t the most revealing or creative By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 11:11 am
Oscars 2017 Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Oscars Hi you! I don’t have to tell you this, but you’re getting pretty popular. People who didn’t know you last year call you ‘Lin’ now. I’m pretty sure your mom charmed everyone so much she’s about to get movie offers. Even your dog is famous: By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 10:12 am
Style Naomie Harris: Surprise Oscar Connection The other night I told someone how, years ago, I was convinced I hated this show. I yelled at the TV, talked sh*t about it to anyone who would listen. In fact, my roommate would leave the room while I got all worked up about it—which meant I By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 08:59 am
Oscars 2017 Kirsten Dunst, a bit Oscar Perfect Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to be a celebrity, because obviously. But not the ones who say they live in a hotel and haven’t been home in a year and a half, because that’s boring. Sometimes, you take on a kind of grumpy, un-showy role By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 07:51 am
Oscars 2017 Auli’i Cravalho is a star I was going to tell you that Auli’I Cravalho is a star because of how brightly her face shone when she sang tonight. I was going to tell you she was a star because Lin-Manuel Miranda, who may as well be actually canonized at this point, doesn’t introduce By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 06:50 am
