TV Updates Grumpily Happy for Keke Palmer in Grease So Fox is following on the heels of NBC and staging a live musical this winter. Yes, they’re copycats, and yes, it’s going to be worse than the NBC ones. Because they’re staging Grease, the most pandering, obvious, ‘musicals 101’ of shows ever. It’s the one By Duana • Jun 01, 2015 11:53 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which You Say ‘Really, Duana?’ So a couple of things in relation to the past few days. Several of you wrote in to tell me that I had neglected to point out (in this post – click here) the third spelling of Margo/Margot – which is of course Margaux. You have a point. I’m not By Duana • May 29, 2015 03:50 pm
Ellie Kemper Hollywood Comedy Roundtable I almost didn’t clock that this was the ‘potential Emmy roundtable’ session that happens every year, because of how much fun this group is. In the past, these roundtables always seem to be about ‘serious’ performers - but almost everyone in this group feels like a legit funny person By Duana • May 28, 2015 10:16 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: To T or not to T Hi Duana! I wrote you a name nerd question a little over a month ago and since then the question has morphed. I originally asked your opinion on Margo vs. Amara. We have since decided on Margo but are now agonizing over Margo vs. Margot spelling. I think we both By Duana • May 27, 2015 02:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Strike List Hi Duana, This is a bit of a different situation as I am not the mother to be, but rather the sister in law to the mother to be. I was hoping in your infinite wisdom you might be able to help so that I could too. Long story short, By Duana • May 25, 2015 02:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Outlaw A Name Hi, Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second girl around the end of Spring. We (meaning, I) like very traditional, classic names. Our first girl is Margaret. (And she goes by Margaret.) Our last name is one syllable, so a multi-syllable first name is a necessity. We also By Duana • May 22, 2015 02:11 pm
Books Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak are complicated and wealthy together It was announced yesterday that Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak will be paid 7.5 million dollars for a book that explores the details of their complicated, untraditional relationship. Seven Point Five MILLION dollars. Yes, publishing gives big advances to celebrity authors who are likely to sell well, and By Duana • May 22, 2015 10:46 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name in the Hand Hi Duana, I need help! I am about to adopt the sweetest little dog from a rescue and I am having a hard time deciding on his name (a yorkie-schnauzer cross, with a beautiful red and white blended coat). Currently, he is named Jerome…which I find very cute, yes, By Duana • May 20, 2015 02:17 pm
Girly Throw Downs The Good Wife Splicegate So The Good Wife, right? In case you didn’t know: the Alicia and Kalinda characters, played by Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi, used to be friends. Viewers loved the friendship, not least because it was nice to see women at work who were friends instead of rivals. Then the By Duana • May 19, 2015 10:34 am
Mad Men If (and the work will always be there) Mad Men Series finale recap (Season 7 Episode 14 recap) If that’s how the story ends, then Dick Whitman is dead forever. Don takes himself to California to find and feel all the things that aren’t Don – the things that are from another part of his life – but By Duana • May 18, 2015 08:33 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Hail Mary Pass, hold Mary Duana, You are our last hope! We are having a little surprise in two weeks. The girl's name was picked out before we even conceived (Leila Georgie), but if our surprise turns out to be a little boy we are in big trouble. There's nothing we By Duana • May 15, 2015 03:10 pm
Scandal Trade-offs Scandal Season 4 Episode 22 season finale recap So I learned about trade-offs recently. Not in the colloquial sense, but in the actual, scientific sense. Whenever you’re trying to make a product or satisfy some criteria, you acknowledge that there will be places where you can’t satisfy as By Duana • May 15, 2015 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jem and No Holograms Okay, well on the one hand, they look cool. Here are the first pictures from the Jem And The Holograms movie. The 80s may be back or not be back in various forms, but the pleather and triangles on the costumes are getting me where I need to be. I By Duana • May 11, 2015 04:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Completing the Set Hi Duana, I am writing on behalf of my sister who is in desperate need of a girl name. It's her 4th baby so as you can imagine it just gets harder after each one to pick the next name. This will be the 3rd girl. The other By Duana • May 11, 2015 02:16 pm
Mad Men Say Yes With Your Voice Mad Men Season 7 Episode 13 recap SPOILER ALERT I wasn’t expecting that. Of all the lives on this show that we think are of extreme consequence, Betty’s was not the one that I thought we were going to have to account for – to make a value judgment By Duana • May 11, 2015 09:20 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can An Adult Change Names? Hi Duana, I love reading your Name Nerd column! I find it fascinating how names have certain connotations/perceptions and how this spills over to personality formation, career developments, etc... In my situation, my legal name first name is Tri, middle name is Duc, last name is Luong. My full By Duana • May 08, 2015 01:44 pm
