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
Oscars 2017 Hailee Steinfeld: Oscars Youthful Folly This wasn’t one of those ‘young’ years at the Oscars. Of course everyone fell in love with Sunny Pawar (and in my head he got to choose the candy that rained down, and we are kindred because Lemonheads and Mike and Ikes!), but he wasn’t subjected to long, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 05:42 am
Oscars 2017 Oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel The rules have changed. Throw out the playbook. The Oscars will never be the same ever again. So it’s fitting that Jimmy Kimmel was the host. Because what do we say about the Oscar hosts every year? “Ugh, they were boring.” “God, where did they even go? I forgot By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 04:52 am
Show Your Work Podcast The No-Podcast Would-Be Episode of Show Your Work So, as we mentioned in the last episode of Show Your Work, we won’t have a new episode this week, because Lainey and I are in LA this weekend when we would usually record the podcast, and Jacek is back in Toronto and won’t be there to remind By Duana • Feb 24, 2017 03:17 pm
Amazingness Britney helps us preview Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Oscar Excitement On the last Show Your Work podcast, Lainey was matter-of-fact, if not ungentle, when she informed me that Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling from Trolls is more likely to win the Best Song Oscar than How Far I’ll Go from Moana. I’d have to go By Duana • Feb 24, 2017 01:06 pm
TV Updates Lauren Graham in Linda From HR Well, if only it were always this easy. Yesterday I wrote about Mae Whitman's new pilot and wondered whether or not there would be any conflict with her project with Lauren Graham, The Royal We. It was as if I asked the internet itself to smile on me, By Duana • Feb 24, 2017 11:00 am
TV Updates Mae Whitman pilot “Good Girls” Around the LaineyGossip offices (read: email threads) I am the go-to for Mae Whitman stuff. This was mostly a holdover from falling in love with her on Parenthood, combined with the knowledge that she and Lauren Graham had kind of adopted each other (more on this later). I am the By Duana • Feb 23, 2017 03:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Nick Cannon’s son is named Golden This is why. Why care about the names celebrities choose for their children? This is why. This name, Golden Cannon, tells you so much about who these people are and what they’re about. It’s so amazing. Not just because it’s an adjective, not just because it is By Duana • Feb 23, 2017 01:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Politics ruined my baby name Hey Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child, a boy, the first week in March. And we had a name picked out we both loved - Rex. It was familiar without being popular, I think it is cute for a little boy and handsome for an adult. By Duana • Feb 22, 2017 04:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Secrets from a Favourite Sister Hi Duana, I'm writing on behalf of my older brother (actually, my favourite one but don't tell my other siblings). After a very difficult journey that lasted seven long years, my sister-in-law and him are finally expecting a boy! We couldn't be any happier By Duana • Feb 17, 2017 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are you part of the 38%? Hi Duana. I’m due in March, but I’m such a planner that I know I’m going to be settled on a name long before that. We are all set for a girl’s name, but totally stuck on a boy’s name. What I want is something By Duana • Feb 15, 2017 05:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Tradition or Trend? Obscurity or Anglicization? Hi Duana, I have a question about name spelling. I love the Irish name Sadhbh. But I wonder if the traditional spelling might be difficult for most people to understand. I was wondering if the anglicized versions are ok to use? I've seen it spelled Saeve and Sive. By Duana • Feb 13, 2017 05:19 pm
