Emmy Awards 2016 Emmy Highs and Lows with Minnie Driver Every so often I check to see if I still feel an unusual kinship with Minnie Driver, and the answer is yes. This is based on not much besides similar colouring, an outspoken-ness that sometimes doesn’t come out right, and secret ringlets that haven’t seen the light of By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 06:15 am
Emmy Awards 2016 James Corden: Emmys ubiquitous We all know it’s coming. The wages for being universally popular all at once are that you will then get a wave of backlash and unpopularity all at once. This, of course, is directly proportionate to the number and breadth of high-profile people who say they love you. Not By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 05:33 am
TV Updates Rami Malek: Emmys Best Speech I still have to pinch myself that the name ‘Rami’ is now approaching household-name status. I shouldn’t be, it’s fun to say; it’s just that for so long, none of the names and phrases I grew up hearing from my Egyptian dad seemed real. I half thought By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 04:15 am
TV Updates Constance Zimmer: Best Emmy Sport People are widely divided on this look. I don’t hate it, but it’s definitely not Quinn, and I think that’s what people do hate about it. The bob keeps it on the right side of things for me but I think if she had romantic hair we’ By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 03:23 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Amy Schumer at the Emmys: Something To Talk About So a lot of people are talking about Amy Schumer and her sister Kim looking like twins on the Emmy red carpet. The rolled-necks of their black dresses do look very similar, they’re both Vivienne Westwood, and even the hair looked the same. I saw the whisper that this By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 02:48 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Do You Do With An Unnamed Baby? Dear Duana, Ok, so I probably shouldn't have left writing to you down to the wire but I hadn't made up my mind about my shortlist and Lo and behold, the baby arrived. We've narrowed down to two names. I am Chinese, and I By Duana • Sep 16, 2016 04:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Serve At The Pleasure Of…Who? Here's the lowdown. My husband and I are expecting our first in September...baby's sex to be revealed in the delivery room. I just got back from vacation where I devoured your book and decided it's time to start getting serious about name selection. By Duana • Sep 14, 2016 06:05 pm
TV Updates SJP in new Divorce trailer Here’s a little insider tip—if you want to annoy an agent or broadcast network executive, or hell, even a writer who’s had a rough week, use the word ‘dramedy’. Say something like, “No, it’s not like, funny, like it’s not three jokes per page, but By Duana • Sep 13, 2016 12:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Four Letter Word Hi there, When I was pregnant with my twins a couple years ago, I always wanted to write to you for naming advice, but I was way to overwhelmed to ever accomplish that goal. Now my sister is pregnant with her second child (a girl!) in September and we were By Duana • Sep 12, 2016 05:41 pm
Justice Smith Why Aren’t You Watching The Get Down? I’m part of the problem here, of course. Or, I guess if you want to get really real about it, Netflix and the Golden Age of television and life are the problems. But you know that feeling where you’re super late for work, and breaking your neck to By Duana • Sep 12, 2016 04:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Dealing with the Done Deal Dear Duana, It's taken me a long time to write this letter because every time I read the column about names it brings back very painful memories. At the time of her birth, her biological father and I were on the fritz but just trying to make it By Duana • Sep 09, 2016 05:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We’re In Deep Duana! My sister is having her first baby in September, and we need your help. We are obsessed with names, and have been discussing this for years. I have a spreadsheet... We're in deep. We both grew up with unusual names for the time, which I think has By Duana • Sep 07, 2016 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Beach Baby Updates It's the very last Friday of the summer and I'm in full denial because I feel like we don't actually remember how to do summer until we're more than halfway through it. It's something that is partly a Canadian failing By Duana • Sep 02, 2016 02:55 pm
Dumbass Mark Ruffalo can be both I don’t know if you know this, but the internet can be frustrating. No, but seriously. That whole expression ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’ is always on my mind. When Beyoncé drops LEMONADE, there are people who, instead of appreciating it, say “Yeah but white By Duana • Sep 02, 2016 11:16 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Looking for a co-sign Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child in March! Still a ways to go but I think we have decided on the name. What do you think of Coco? It has family significance, as it was the nick name of a beloved relative. That relative was By Duana • Aug 29, 2016 03:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Femininity, Frenchness, and Farting Rats Hi Duana! I am French, not pregnant and not intending to be anytime soon, but I like to read your column about name nerding as the cultural differences are always interesting to me. I particularly enjoyed the last one (that I've read, at least) about Vivianne, Vivienne, Vivian, By Duana • Aug 26, 2016 04:15 pm
