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
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
