I don't know what you've heard about Scranton, but in the appropriate eastern-PA context, it makes Wilkes-Barre look like frickin' Towanda.

Awww... Good for her! We had the same writing teacher so I feel like we have a special bond. She totally lived the dream with that book...

Um, Pam Beasley* is from Scranton, which makes it glamourous enough for me.

*Yes, not real person, I know. Or is she?

until your boss figures out you majored in psychology and starts making unfunny jokes about trying not to diagnose them with dramatic-erratic personality disorder when they know they are a textbook case...

but congrats on living the dream, weisberger!

@tudobem: In college? What teacher?

@In Other News...: Hey, remember that episode of The Office where Michael watched The Devil Wears Prada and started mistreating Pam? META!

The Devil Wears Prada was godawful.
I'm bitter, dammit.

This chick has a million dollars for writing a shitty, shitty book that people read only because she sold out her successful boss. So um, heroine, I think not. I would cut off my fingers if I typed prose as bad as The Devil Wears Prada.

I heard my 8-year old tell my husband last night that he was being "Devil Wears Prada - mean."

Then she said, "What's Prada, Chad?"

He said, "It's Hannah Montana clothes for rich ladies, honey."

Remember when Gawker raked her over the coals for her second book, while ads for it ran all around? That was kinda funny.

@BK_KT: She definitely got a much better movie out of it than she deserved.

Ooooh, Anguilla. I went there once (not on my own dime, obvs). Its really pretty.

@Mary Mouse: Oh YEAH! Full circle!!!

@Mary Mouse: The movie was good-- you didn't have to read it.

I went to the same high school as Anne Hathaway, but I feel no special bond.

meryl streep schooled everyone yet again with that performance. she made everyone hate anne hathaway's characteer and totally made miranda human, a total 180 from the book.

p.s. i would totally let meryl mistreat me. but only if she can write me a nice referral.

@Mary Mouse: @BK_KT: I thought the movie was utter tripe, too!

@DorothyMantooth: It's a chick flick. Of course you'd hate it!

Her dad's like a psychiatrist. I thought she came from CT, where he dad moved to with her stepmom? Anyway, not the rags to riches story you're clawing for here. No one poor gets a job at Vogue. That's HR's one job in the entire company--to make sure Anna Wintour's assistant is from good stock.

@fiveinchtaint: Touché, my dear. You know me too well.

@DorothyMantooth: Hmm, I don't know, but maybe that's because you have a real, grown-up's job? My first job in New York was assistant to an extremely difficult art dealer, and the movie was just very relatable.

@Mary Mouse: Well, I was a paralegal before law school...
I'm afraid Taint's made the right call on this one.

My own boss, who is totally nice BTW, went to school with Weisberger and said the material actually came from Wesiberger's roommate. Proof that you can write badly AND steal material and still have a lovely wedding. I can't wait!

@Mary Mouse: I couldn't even laugh at that movie because every situation was ALL TOO REAL. Traumatizing.

@DorothyMantooth: Yeah, I'm with you. God bless her for working the system, but her writing is terrible and she's a better representative of people who go very far without actually being substantively good or interesting at what they do. In the book she kept writing that she always wanted to work for the New Yorker, and it made me laugh every time: really? With writing like this?

She worked a good scam, and deserves all the delicious fruits thereof, though.

Also, that's not a plausible chuppah.

Just want to weigh in that her first book (read it on a plane) is really awful, her second book (read it on a train) is even worse, and if she's some kind of hero then I am Wonder Woman's invisible jet.

@cassandra: I agree with you both.

@Darienlake: By her fifth book, you'll be on rollerskates, dragged behind a Big Wheel.

@DorothyMantooth: @cassandra: @Darienlake: Yeah, pretty much.

Nothing against Weisberger personally. But goodness me.

@Darienlake: Agreed on Weisberger, but I just realized -- I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman's panties. Too much information? Probably. Um, as you were.

Divorce countdown starting ... now.

@PhDbomb: I was in a class when she started the book. And I don't think this is true. But fuck her anyway.
I say the Big D by 2011. Just in time for our next big terrorist attack.

@PhDbomb: I don't know about that. I know someone who has worked with Anna Wintour over the same period of time and she confirmed a lot of the book.