Juno had already gotten plenty of buzz by the time I saw it in Dec. but I still enjoyed it from burger-phone start to track-star finish. Ellen Page does such a remarkable job as a smart-alecky-but-vulnerable pregnant teen and Michael Cera is downright adorable in his geeky awkwardness. It's a quirky, family tale with some real zingers a la
Napoleon Dynamite and
Little Miss Sunshine. For shiz. And it's pretty incredible that first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody was a former stripper and plucked from obscurity from her blog. (See, blogs
can be handy dandy tools for writers.) Fans can download a scene from the screenplay in the side box alongside this NYT article,
"Off the Stripper Poles and into the Movies." How's that for a Hollywood ending?
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My friend Kate Jacobs passed through Decatur on her book tour for her super successful debut novel,
The Friday Night Knitting Club." We worked together at
Redbook and were part of a tight-knit (ha!) group of friends who bonded over Tuesday night drinks. She was kind enough to give me a shout-out during her talk at the library where women knitted furiously and demanded to know how she writes two books a year. The answer? With noise-canceling earphones.
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