Girls Growing Pain Girls Season 5 Episode 2 and 3 recap Let’s talk about how Girls is incorporating the realities of friends who correspond in a digital way much more naturally than almost any show on television. I don’t mean the bit about naked exes you keep in your phone, but By Duana • Mar 07, 2016 10:44 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: 911 Name Emergency Hi Duana, I am a name-lover who is addicted to the Name Nerd column, but this time I am writing for a friend, and it is a super name emergency as baby is already here! And she's been here for a week. NO NAME YET. My good friend By Duana • Mar 04, 2016 03:35 pm
How To Get Away With Murder If There’s A Reason I’m Still Alive When All Those Who Loved Me Died… How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 13 recap Okay, look. The advent of technology has deeply screwed onscreen storytelling. I saw a movie at TIFF last year that isn’t even out yet that used an actual answering machine to reveal information. An answering machine. In 2015. By Duana • Mar 04, 2016 10:04 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Fatherlode Hi Duana, You may want to get a beverage, this one’s complicated. I have been imagining this email for months now hoping/praying that after a number of losses this Hail Mary pass of a pregnancy would last. Now with 8 weeks to go we’re looking good for By Duana • Mar 02, 2016 04:02 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Garner’s video is a Huge Move When we watched the Oscars the other night there were a few times—maybe more than a few—where Lainey and I and our friends rolled our eyes at a moment or mocked a technical bobble, and then immediately said “oh, but we’re cynical TV assholes”. There is a By Duana • Mar 02, 2016 02:48 pm
Oscars 2016 Brie Larson: Oscars Worst Dressed (Duana) I don’t know what I was expecting, in particular. Brie has had some choices I liked and some I didn’t and some, like her Golden Globes dress, that I grew into loving, surprising myself. But this dress did not feel loveworthy at all. It was just too MUCH. By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 06:58 pm
Oscars 2016 Saoirse Ronan: Oscars Best Dressed (Duana) Do you remember my saying, a few weeks ago, that people were getting down on Saoirse Ronan for her apparently strengthening accent? Do you remember hearing that there was a bit of Tall Poppy Syndrome levied at her? Remember the unremarkable dress she wore to the Golden Globes in January? By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 06:29 pm
Oscars 2016 Mark Ruffalo’s Almost Oscar I said it last night on Twitter, but there’s very little that’s crueler than being up for an award with four other people if one of the people—the one who is CERTAIN not to win anything—shares three syllables of a name with you. “And the Oscar By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 05:55 pm
Oscars 2016 Cate Blanchett’s Ageless Oscars There have been some FUSSY emails today about botox or fillers or micro derma Sweet Potatoes and why we aren’t writing indictments of everyone suspected to use these things. I think 2003 has come and gone, you know? From what I understand, accusing most Hollywood performers of using these By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 04:19 pm
Oscars 2016 Lady Gaga's Oscar Performance First a brief moment to say that, though her outfit did not fit well (and see earlier where I don’t understand why we commit crimes against breasts), I would always rather see an interesting choice that’s not quite right than a boring column. But that’s not really By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 03:48 pm
Oscars 2016 Rooney Mara is a Well-Dressed Oscars Suck I love, love, love the word ‘suck’. Not like ‘that sucks’, although I do frequently employ that terminology— but like, ‘you’re being a suck’. Remember when we were kids and someone was always being a sucky baby? Now when we talk about it, we use kids’ language and say By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 03:11 pm
Oscars 2016 Naomi Watts: Oscar Prom Dress I think a few times before I’ve been not so down with Naomi’s red carpet style. I think it’s totally fair that we just don’t necessarily jive, style-wise. I bet she’s really upset about it too. But in all seriousness, that’s cool. Something isn’ By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 01:42 pm
Oscars 2016 The Weeknd: Purest Oscar Pitch Remember when we didn’t know anything about The Weeknd? When he was this anonymous shadowy persona, and we didn’t have any knowledge of him or his hair or his romances, and hadn’t read any dark and twisty Rolling Stone pieces on him yet? There were just those By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 01:01 pm
Oscars 2016 Charlize Theron, Oscars Princess Not a princess dress, of course. That dress is a perfect example of what people mean when they say a piece of clothing is ‘art’. Lainey touched on it a little, but the outfits are a big deal that take a lot of effort and preparation—we can still acknowledge By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 12:28 pm
Oscars 2016 Chris Evans Has Unexpected Oscar Charm So my friend Matt made a joke a while back about "the five Chrises - Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, and Bradley Cooper”. I laughed, for very many people would bungle which Chris was which, and while I can pat myself on the back for separating By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 12:07 pm
Oscars 2016 Julianne Moore: Oscars Least Notable I don’t mean anything bad by the title above. Julianne Moore is one of my favourites. But we know why she was there—she was there to present the best actor award because the previous winner for best actress always is. She said nothing incendiary on the carpet. Her By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 11:22 am
