Oscars 2016 Kevin Hart: Best Oscar Advantage You can see it in everyone’s eyes at the Oscars—there are high stakes. The people who are nominated know their lives change if they win. The people who are presenting or posing on the red carpet know these are the pictures that will be used all year long— By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 10:52 am
Oscars 2016 Tina Fey: Oscar Most Aspirational Yesterday I watched the various Oscar events on about 4 different screens, because of geoblocking and live shows and tweeting and etc. So I saw a lot, and one of the things I noticed was that Variety dropped their review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot about 20 minutes before Tina Fey By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 10:03 am
Oscars 2016 Louis CK: Oscars Most Vigilant Do you think that Louis CK asked to present the award for best documentary short? Or do you think he was assigned? I’m willing to bet the latter, and that he wandered around for days trying to find the right ‘in’ to the category. Or maybe it came to By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 09:33 am
Oscars 2016 Margot Robbie: Best Icon Dress It’s not such a surprise to have someone wear a gold column dress. Someone wears one every couple of awards shows—at the Golden Globes or SAG awards as well as the Oscars—and they have their place. They’re beautiful and they’re of course evocative of the By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 09:21 am
Oscars 2016 Chrissy Teigen: Best Reaction to Worst Oscars In-Joke Why yes, I did like that dress. I’m not sure it would work if she weren’t pregnant, and I guess it’s also pretty literal in the sense that yeah, she’s in bloom. But if the worst criticism of an outfit is that it’s literal, well, By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 08:28 am
Oscars 2016 Kate Winslet: Worst Oscar Angles You know when you’re out with your friends and you’re having a great time and someone takes a picture and you lean in, beaming, and in your head the soundtrack is one of the songs from tonight that you forgot you loved (hands up if your Oscar party By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 06:52 am
Oscars 2016 Common (& runner-up Dave Grohl): Oscars Mr. Congeniality I love riding the elevators in the hotel on Oscar day. They are very fast and constantly packed and never boring. You see the early risers who want to work out, and then later the influx of Makeup and Hair artists troop in, and you can tell what their clients By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 06:06 am
Oscars 2016 Mindy Kaling & Amy Poehler: Oscar Inside Out Where was Phyllis? I loved Inside Out AND felt that it abused my trust, which is the way that I think you’re supposed to feel about Inside Out (also please note that someone pointed out that Bing Bong was missing from the In Memoriam montage, so HAVE FUN SOBBING By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 05:45 am
Oscars 2016 Priyanka Chopra: Oscar designer fit Hollywood is still weird about breasts. Or formal dressing is weird about breasts. VERY WEIRD. There’s something going on where people who are skilled and fabulous designers are somehow unwilling to acknowledge that breasts are not merely ideas, but actual parts of a body which have physical properties, and By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 05:29 am
Oscars 2016 Whoopi Goldberg: Oscars Inflammatory Tweet I should point out that Whoopi wasn’t inflammatory — is she ever? Occasionally tone deaf and inevitably a little older and more out-of-touch than I remember her, but basically fine. This is not actually about her, exactly. This is about this tweet that happened relatively early in the red carpet By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 04:47 am
Scandal Stop sleeping with him, then. Scandal Season 5 Episode 12 recap No, really. Stop sleeping with him then. One of the things that’s great about this show is that they’re very straightforward about sex-is-power, and this episode had that well-underlined. Everyone is sleeping with someone else for power, to get them where they By Duana • Feb 26, 2016 10:20 am
How To Get Away With Murder 32 Short Films About The Keating Kids How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 12 recap When this show started I thought there were far too many characters to keep track of. I wasn’t wrong. But now, almost two seasons later, they’re defining themselves. They’re pulling away from the pack, and also By Duana • Feb 26, 2016 10:01 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: When The Name Comes First Hi Duana, Like most others who write in, I'm a life-long name nerd. I couldn't wait to have a human or two of my own to name when the time came. But, as it turns out I'm picky and independent, and so have not By Duana • Feb 24, 2016 04:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Making Your Own Call Hi Duana: I'm due with a boy, our second, in March of 2015. His older sister is named Brynn Ellis Jean Boucher and she'll be 20 months when this guy joins us in March. As you can see, our last name is very French and neither By Duana • Feb 22, 2016 04:16 pm
Girls Blame It On The Rain Girls Season 5 Episode 1 recap Here was my thought as I watched the season premiere of Girls: even knowing that Marnie was going to be ridiculous because = bride, I was surprised by how real everything felt. That is, each individual reaction isn’t that outsized. Yes, Marnie’s a By Duana • Feb 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Friday Name Game Dear Duana, Hoping you can help us! Expecting baby no 2 another girl in March. First daughter Maia named after mother in law Maria. Would like to follow tradition and name second daughter after my mother who's Greek name is Konstandina goes by Dina. Husband has very long By Duana • Feb 19, 2016 03:35 pm
