"My YouTUBE Obsessions" By Diablo Cody in
the new issue of Entertainment Weekly (April 18th - Tina Fey on the
cover)|
Click on the links below for the actual video at YouTube:
Diablo Cody, writer of "Juno" and
former stripper, will speak at UF on Tuesday night.
The free show will take place at the Phillips Center at 8
p.m. with first-come-first-serve seating, according to a
news release from Accent, the Student Government speaker's
bureau, which is sponsoring the event.
Cody was paid $40,000 for her appearance, said Steven
Blank, Accent chairman.
Happy Birthday to Quentin Tarantino @
Moldova.org:
here.
Last week was Tarantino�s birthday. He
celebrated 45 and his party was for one more celebrated star of the
day: Fergie.
Fergie, along with fellow birthday boy Quentin Tarantino, threw a
blowout at the Mirage with 100 of their BFFs, including Diablo Cody,
Nelly and
Kid
Rock.
Jennifer�s Body is
Bangin�
Current mood: DAY ONE, MOTHERFUCKERS!
Our first day on set
was awesome. Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes!
In other news, I�m admittedly pleased with my inclusion in the new
"Mavericks Issue"
of Details. There�s something kind of cool about being
recognized in a classy men�s magazine when you�re blatantly dickless.
I got to pose with (among other folks) Showtime�s Bob Greenblatt,
who is my colleague/boss these days. Best of all, I got to share
list-space with the amazing Amy Poehler. Good company!
The accompanying blurb is sweet and complimentary, but I was rather
surprised by the writer�s assumption that I was making a "playful
dig" at Schindler�s List in the quote they chose to pull! I
would never bag on that movie-- or the Man-- even playfully. I
couldn�t tell you the exact context of the quote, but I was probably
defending my decision to make a heartwarming, conspicuously dorky
film as opposed to say, Birth of a Nation. I apologize to the
writer if there was any misunderstanding-- I do recall babbling
incoherently on the phone that night.
Which brings me to another point, since we�re discussing interviews:
More than one journalist has asked me how I feel about being
"associated with Juno." I always think that�s kind of a weird
question. Am I supposed to feel ashamed? Limited?
The posters for the movie say "A Film By Jason Reitman." To wit:
Jason has rightfully assumed public authorship of the finished
flick. And yet, people seem to be able to accept that it�s a movie--
just a movie-- that Jason made (and made well). But with me, they
conclude that Juno must be a quivering chunk of my soul that
I excised with a hot knife and laid bare for the world to judge.
Yes, I wrote a very personal script, and yes, I won a fucking Oscar
for my trouble, but when you get down to it, it�s a movie. More
accurately, it�s A Film By Jason Reitman.
And yes, I am very, very, very proud to be associated with it.
"MySpace ate my previous
bloggity-bloggity-blog entry, in which I attempted to convey my
excitement at being back in Vancouver just one year post-Juno. We�re
shooting our Kusama-licious horror movie and many of the usual
suspects are back in town.
I even got to ride the "Almost Famous"(-esque) bus for the tech
scout, just like last year. The front of our bus read "Smile," but
Mason and I were not smiling because we had to sit next to the
chemical toilet. It smelled like a colon being irrigated with
Formula 409."
Stripper turned Oscar winner
Diablo Cody has a lot on her plate these days�
She's working with Steven
Spielberg on the show The United States of Tara
for Showtime, sorting out a horror film (which will be produced by
Juno director Jason Reitman), and is contributing to
a pop-culture column in Entertainment Weekly.
Devilish Diablo works hard for her
money, honey!
Now,
Cody's adding
one more thing to her to-do list�a still untitled memoir about her
climb to the top of the Hollywood food chain due out in 2009.
A rep for the publisher, Gotham, says,
"It's about a geeky girl from the Midwest who moves to Hollywood and
her adventures writing screenplays."
And there should be lots of tits and
ass!
This will be Cody's second trip down
memoir lane. Her first was Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of
an Unlikely Stripper.
Maybe the tatted up writer shouldn't
wait so long to get that book out. Lots of people have
been pouring
the haterade on her!
Showtime picks pilots post-strike @
Hollywood Reporter:
here.
The network [SHOWTIME] also has attached
feature director Craig Gillespie ("Lars and the Real Girl") to
direct the pilot for "The United States of Tara," the Diablo
Cody-penned half-hour about a woman with multiple-personality
disorder, and is aiming to shoot in the spring.
28 January 2008 (WENN)
Young actress
Ellen Page is
overwhelmed by her Oscar nomination for her starring role in
Juno -
calling the experience "surprising" and "humbling". The 20-year-old,
who plays a pregnant teenager in the movie, is shortlisted in the
Best Actress category at next month's Academy Awards and admits the
news came as a complete shock. She tells MTV.com, "We were coming
from Paris on the train (Eurostar) and just getting to London when I
heard. It was exciting. Winning awards was something I was trying to
keep out of my mind (but) it's a surprise and very humbling. It just
blew me away." Page insists the film's screen writer
Diablo Cody
was always confident that she would receive a nod for the part. She
adds, "She (Cody) text me when the Oscar nominations came out
saying: 'I told you so.'" Page will take on
Cate Blanchett,
Julie Christie,
Marion Cotillard
and
Laura Linney
for the award at the prestigious ceremony.
Two art house films ruled the roost at the
80th Annual Academy Award nominations, as
No Country for Old Men
and
There Will Be Blood
tied for the most nods with eight each. Both films received
nominations for Best Picture, Directing, and Adapted Screenplay, as
well as a single acting nomination -- No Country for Old Men's
Javier Bardem
received a Best Supporting Actor nod and the heavily-favored
Daniel Day-Lewis
was an expected nominee for Best Actor for There Will Be Blood.
The Coen brothers received nominations in four categories --
Picture, Directing, Editing and Adapted Screenplay -- and are the
third two-man team to get a Directing nod. Following behind the two
Westerns were
Atonement and
Michael Clayton
with seven nominations apiece, although Atonement failed to
snag mentions for director or leads
Keira Knightley
and
James McAvoy,
young
Saoirse Ronan
was a Best Supporting Actress contender. Michael Clayton, on
the other hand, dominated with acting nominations for
George Clooney,
Tom Wilkinson
and
Tilda Swinton
as well as directing and screenplay nods. Indie comedy
Juno rounded
out the Best Picture list and received four nominations overall,
including nods for director
Jason Reitman,
screenwriter
Diablo Cody
and star
Ellen Page.
Other films scoring multiple nominations included
Ratatouille
(five nods) and
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(four, including a mention for director
Julian Schnabel).
In terms of surprises and omissions,
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
managed only three nominations, though one was for Best Actor
contender
Johnny Depp.
An unexpected Best Actor contender was
Tommy Lee Jones
for the little-seen Iraq war drama
In the Valley of Elah,
and
Cate Blanchett
received two nominations, for Best Actress (Elizabeth:
The Golden Age) and Supporting
Actress (I'm
Not There -- the second time an
actor has been nominated for playing the opposite sex).
Into the Wild,
favored by a number of guild awards with nominations, failed to nab
a Best Picture nod or a director mention for
Sean Penn;
only
Hal Holbrook
received a major nomination, for Supporting Actor. And Disney once
again co-opted the Best Song category, as three songs from
Enchanted
help fill out the full list of nominees in that category - expect a
lot of
Amy Adams at
this year's ceremony!
Speaking of which, if all goes according to plan, the Academy Awards
will be handed out on Sunday, February 24th at 8pm ET/5pm ET. Though
the continuing WGA strike tacitly threatens to mar the proceedings,
the Academy is moving forward as planned with the show. --Mark
Englehart, IMDb staff
