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Diablo Cody Is About To Diddle Another Doodle

Serious as a sizzler, the strapping stripper is beginning another autobio oh dear lord I can't even keep this up for one sentence. Diablo Cody's writing a second memoir, hopefully to get past the "hey look, the stripper wrote a book" phase of her life, which hadn't disappeared over the years but only became "hey look, the stripper wrote a movie." Good news, really, judging by Juno. I mean think about it: The first act is cloying and fake, but the rest is authentic and artistic. Either way, it should be a lot better than her Entertainment Weekly column.

12:55 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Nick Douglas
1,713 views, 30 comments

Latest by ofsoundmind: Her movie could have been called "When Daria Got Knocked Up." more »

copy cats

Juno You Want It

Because there are no new ideas left anywhere, the super duper hit film Juno is getting its very own knocked-up knock-off. Brenda Hampton, the woman behind the odious 7th Heaven, is peddling a new series about a young teenager who gets pregnant after a tryst with a popular boy at school. But there's a little nerdy kid who likes her too! What will she do? Probably say sassy things and talk on a hotdog phone. [NYMag]

5:05 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Richard
1,548 views, 58 comments

Latest by blix: It wasn't awful, just not "Nominated for Best Picture" good. more »

critical stalker

Diablo Cody's Very First Stalker

We love to love smartass Juno screenwriter and ex-dancing girl Diablo Cody. But not in a weird way, like this guy. He wrote an essay about the "at least nine things" they have in common, and recently accosted a lookalike screenwriter on the WGA picket line, mistaking her for Cody. "My sign today on the picket lines at NBC," he blogs. "ASK ME ABOUT THE NINE THINGS I HAVE IN COMMON WITH DIABLO CODY." OK, fine. What are they? More »

11:26 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Sheila
3,900 views, 23 comments

Latest by SylviaPlathWasFramed: @fivehole: You mean you don't know her? She's nice, but you've really got to meet the 60-year-old polecat at the Deuce Deuce. It's like getting a lap dance from Jackie Collins, if Jackie Collins was addicted more »

My mom just called and said I needed to check out a blog called The Pussy Ranch. That totally freaked me out because well... *shakes head* *shivers* *begins to speak* *shivers*. But Marcia quickly explained to me the Pussy Ranch is really just the blog of Diablo Cody, not a vag-splashing site (her words not mine). Ms. Cody not only wrote the screenplay for Juno but is now apparently our penpal. ("She is a role model of how to respond to criticism" says Emily.) Anyway! Her blog is pretty wonderful and her listed interests include "cock-gobbling" and her favorite movie is "Thank You for Smoking Cock." [The Pussy Ranch]

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Tiny UK Pop Star Lily Allen Totally Pregnant!

The Juno effect continues this morning. Yesterday Britney Spears' younger sister Jamie-Lynn (aka "the classy one") announced her pregnancy. Today Lily Allen, the diminutive and frank UK pop sensation (AKA "Amy Winehouse minus the heroin") announced she too is pregnant. Her baby daddy is one half of the Chemical Brothers, Ed Simons. One can only hope that this story, like the film, "follows the heroine...on a twisty path toward responsibility and greater self-understanding."

Lily Allen to be a mother [Guardian]

10:20 AM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,701 views, 95 comments

at the movies

I Really Wanted To Like 'Juno'

When Juno, the 16-year-old heroine of the movie being marketed hardest to my generation this holiday season, tells her best friend she's pregnant, the friend's first reaction is, "Honest to blog?" CLUNK. But in spite of being forewarned about that line in the movie's ubiquitous T.V. spots, and in spite of David Denby's New Yorker rave—"Juno is a coming-of-age movie made with idiosyncratic charm and not a single false note"—I still held out high hopes for alternastripper memoirist turned screenwriter Diablo Cody's collaboration with 'Thank You For Smoking' director Jason Reitman. But guess what? There are false notes aplenty in this trytoohardy movie. Honest to blog! More »

2:25 PM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Emily Gould
17,927 views, 196 comments

Latest by fiveinchtaint: Finally saw this, and I have to agree with a lot of what Emily said here. The one thing she doesn't mention is the awkwardness of both the Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner characters. There were odd moments when it more »