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?
Diablo Cody, who is coming off her directorial debut with Paradise
"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.
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…
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…
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, …
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, there …
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
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…
The new Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman film, Young Adult, opened to wide release yesterday. The red carpet fashion was surprisingly modest, which seems fitting for a film whose power lies mostly in the small, nuanced moments rather than the sweepingly dramatic ones.
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…
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!
Former Sex And The City star Kristin Davis is a new mom!
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,…
Today in Tweet Beat, Ke$ha defends the ethics of her feather hair extensions
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.
Today in Tweet Beat, Jenny McCarthy has a roomier vagina after a "lifetime of penises." Plus, Justine Bieber haz a sad.
Today in Tweet Beat, Kelly Bensimon is so very wise. Plus, Diablo Cody gives an update on the Sweet Valley High script.
Today in Tweet Beat, we're left wondering if hell has frozen over given Michael Lohan's recent tweet. Plus, Ice-T and his doggy's style.
Today in Tweet Beat, Diablo Cody doesn't like how people are mocking a 13-year-old girl. Plus, Lady Gaga discusses her new album.
Today in Tweet Beat, Lisa Rinna gets some thoughts on prison rape off her mind, Eric Roberts confesses that he loves menopause, and Justin Bieber is developing a fragrance for women.
Today on Tweet Beat, Lambert gets into particulars, Lance Bass celebrates, Diddy ponders new media, Diablo Cody speculates on the sex life of certain young documentarians, and Mindy Kaling has pointers for parental raconteurs.
In an interview with Can I Get A Man With That, Tracy Grandstaff, who voiced Daria, addresses some lingering issues surrounding our favorite Misery Chick, and answers questions from Diablo Cody, Tavi Gevinson, and Jane Pratt in that dulcet monotone.
Today in Tweet Beat, Michael Jackson's questionably ethical dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein has been made a consultant for the FDA. Plus, Eric Roberts talks about why he got off the pot.
Today in Tweet Beat, Snooki has her day in court, Heidi Montag is psyched to be suing The Hills' creator even if she doesn't know what it's for, and Diablo Cody updates us on the size of her vagina.
Today in Tweet Beat, Diablo Cody shares her goals for parenting and Lisa Rinna has a history with Jason Bateman.
Today in Tweet Beat, Kim Zolciak shows off a picture of her mom, Margaret Cho's vagina hurts, and Adrianne Curry gives a geek's perspective of sexual harassment.
Diablo Cody has reportedly sold a comedy pilot to Fox titled "The Breadwinner." Details are being kept under wraps, but we're willing to bet homeslice will find a way to insert at least one ironic food-shaped telephone, honest to blog.
Diablo Cody's next movie
