In today's Tweet Beat, words matter to Elizabeth Berkely, Diabo Cody is trying to track down Bruno Mars and it's unclear if Joyce Carol Oates is talking about women or cats. » 7/14/14 7:30pm 7/14/14 7:30pm

In today's Tweet Beat, Diablo Cody should have written for Teen Beat, Ellen Page has great workout tips and Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell are nauseatingly sweet together. » 4/21/14 7:40pm 4/21/14 7:40pm

Meryl Streep as a once-career-driven-now-retired rock star? Yes please. The Academy Award winner is attached to a script called Ricky and the Flash crafted by Juno writer Diablo Cody with Jonathan Demme as the director. Demme helmed the emotional, Anne Hathaway-led Rachel Getting Married. » 3/26/14 1:10pm 3/26/14 1:10pm

Xanax/Celexa/Paxil alert! A book called Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, the Sex You're Not Having, The Sleep You're Missing and What's Really Making You Crazy serves as inspiration for a new HBO comedy, executive produced by Diablo Cody and Oprah. Will someone rant about boobies? » 11/25/13 6:00pm 11/25/13 6:00pm

Diablo Cody, who is coming off her directorial debut with Paradise, addressed some frustrating, persistent issues with women in Hollywood. » 10/21/13 12:10pm 10/21/13 12:10pm

"I occasionally do uncredited 'secret' rewrites on scripts. I like that, because then people who would ordinarily avoid my projects are tricked into buying tickets for films I’ve worked on. I entertain frat guys without their consent!" — Diablo Cody reveals seven things no one tells you about being a screenwriter. » 10/09/13 4:00pm 10/09/13 4:00pm

Diablo Cody will be taking her talent of creating complex female protagonists to television — Fox, the surprising new home for relatively smart network TV, has put into production a series called Prodigy, written by Cody and produced Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s (that's The O.C. producers Josh Schwartz and… » 10/05/13 5:30pm 10/05/13 5:30pm

Starring Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, and Octavia Spencer*, it's a movie about a good girl gone bad(-ish) after surviving a plane crash leads her to question her religion. You see, she's got skin from her butt grafted on her back — and she's pretty fucking pissed about it. » 8/04/13 11:30pm 8/04/13 11:30pm

Regardless of how you feel about the polarizing writer/director Diablo Cody (Young Adult won me over, I gotta say), , it's nifty that she co-chaired the third year of the Athena Film Festival, an annual showcase for the works of women in the film industry. Vulture caught up with Cody to discuss Kathryn Bigelow's Zero… » 2/09/13 3:00pm 2/09/13 3:00pm

GOD, I love reading famous people's tour riders. It's the fucking best. I don't begrudge them any of it—go nuts, stars!—but it's just so satisfying to peer into people's weird obsessions and/or whims and/or determination to fuck with their assistants. A legal document detailing Lady Gaga's demands was leaked this week… » 2/08/13 8:00pm 2/08/13 8:00pm

Sure, we're always saying Hollywood Has Run Out Of Ideas. But that's because the studios keep churning out hot messes like Battleship, Smufs and Candyland, in addition to revisiting old stuff like Tron and The Lone Ranger. (Did you know they're remaking Scarface?) But, as Diablo Cody tells The Hollywood Reporter,… » 1/31/13 5:40pm 1/31/13 5:40pm

Leave it to Houston Press writer Richard Connelly, author of "The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List," to wring his hands upon learning that Houston Chronicle writer Sarah Tressler was also working at a strip club. Tressler — who just gave her first interview this morning on GMA — is just part of a rich… » 3/30/12 3:05pm 3/30/12 3:05pm

Love movies? Wish you could see more quality, lady-friendly stuff? Take note: The second annual Athena Film Festival— a celebration of "women's leadership in both real life and the fictional world"— is right around the corner, February 9-12, at Barnard College in New York City. This year's awardees include the likes… » 1/26/12 6:50pm 1/26/12 6:50pm

In the last decade or so, women have been inundated with movies created "for" us — cloying romantic comedies in which the heroine is charming but clumsy/insecure/desperate; in which she can have a "cool" job but can never truly successful. And, as we learned in that Tad Friend piece about Anna Faris in The New Yorker… » 12/16/11 11:40am 12/16/11 11:40am

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O recently married longtime boyfriend Barnaby Clay. In case you're wondering who that is, Clay directed O in the 2009 video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single "Zero," which is how oh so many rock n roll love stories begin. Okay, maybe this is the first but it could be more common than we think! » 12/10/11 11:15am 12/10/11 11:15am

Former Sex And The City star Kristin Davis is a new mom! » 10/08/11 11:05am 10/08/11 11:05am

Jaded, drunk, bitter, disillusioned… Charlize Theron's Mavis — the main character in Young Adult — is a kind of a girl after our own hearts. In this trailer, the character comes off as scheming and unlikeable, but with that glimmer of desperation and depression that can be all-too familiar. As seen in this trailer,… » 10/07/11 1:40pm 10/07/11 1:40pm

Today in Tweet Beat, Ke$ha defends the ethics of her feather hair extensions, explaining that she likes to recycle body parts, like human teeth. Plus, Teresa Giudice's has written a second New York Times bestseller. » 6/09/11 7:30pm 6/09/11 7:30pm

Today in Tweet Beat, Joy Behar discovers that she and Lady Gaga have the same vagina doctor. Plus, Diablo Cody says The United States of Tara has been canceled. » 5/23/11 7:30pm 5/23/11 7:30pm