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: Being a Woman in Film Means Constantly Proving Yourself
Diablo Cody, who is coming off her directorial debut with Paradise, addressed some frustrating, persistent issues with women in Hollywood.
"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’s New Show Puts Female Protagonist Front and Center
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…
Here's the Trailer for Paradise, Diablo Cody's Directorial Debut
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.
Diablo Cody Points Out the Ol' Channing Tatum Stripping Double Standard
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…
Lady Gaga's Tour Rider Includes 'A Mannequin with Puffy Pink Pubic Hair'
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, …
Diablo Cody Calls Out Hollywood: 'Women Have Not Had Their Say'
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 …
Five Journalists Who Also Worked in Strip Clubs
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…
Female Directors Might Be Ignored By Hollywood, But They're Celebrated…
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 of …
Grown-Ups In Awkward Ensembles At The Young Adult Premiere
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.
Sick Of Tired Chick Flick Clichés? So Is Diablo Cody.
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 Is A Married Lady
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!
Sex And The City's Kristin Davis Adopts A Baby Girl
Former Sex And The City star Kristin Davis is a new mom!
Charlize Theron's Eyes Are The True Stars In Young Adult
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,…
Ke$ha Assuages Fears About Alleged Rooster Slayings
Today in Tweet Beat, Ke$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.
Lady Gaga & Joy Behar Have The Same Gynecologist
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.
Jenny McCarthy Wants Bigger Tampons
Today in Tweet Beat, Jenny McCarthy has a roomier vagina after a "lifetime of penises." Plus, Justine Bieber haz a sad.
Kelly Bensimon Shares Some Words Of Wisdom
Today in Tweet Beat, Kelly Bensimon is so very wise. Plus, Diablo Cody gives an update on the Sweet Valley High script.
Michael Lohan Says He's "Sick" Of Media
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.