Zoe ,'Serenity'
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Steph, you should have seen Down with Love in the company I did: with 3 of my cousins that also work in the publishing industry. When RZ rolled out that explanation about writing, publishing, and becoming a celebrity due to a bestseller in about 3 weeks' time we all fell out laughing.
I think my comment was something like, "Not even Anne Rice manages that fast of a turnaround, and she doesn't use editors."
I'm trying to think of what movie it was, a fairly recent one, where the lead female was an author and she was on this big book tour and I was just snorting my way through the whole thing, in terms of how it was described.
Something similar happened in Cheaper by the Dozen. Completely absurd shorthand, which usually doesn't bother me, but in that instance I growled.
K-Bug dragged me to see Twilight last night. That movie has been out for over a month and the theater was PACKED. PACKED!!! WTF?
I can see why they are going with a different director for the next movie. I mean, I know the raw material had its own issues, but man...the direction SUCKED.
Cheaper by the Dozen.
That was it!
::gropes Amy for the brain sharing::
Kate Hudson strikes me as a better choice
Heather Graham?
Either Amy Adams or Emily Deschanel would be totally charming in the role, I think.
If you wanted a Doris Day type blonde, then either Reese Witherspoon or Elizabeth Banks.
Ooh Amy Adams.
If you wanted a Doris Day type blonde, then either Reese Witherspoon or Elizabeth Banks.
I think they fall too far to the prim & prissy and crude, just-one-of-the-guys sides of the spectrum, respectively. You'd need someone who's a motivated go-getter, but neither prudish nor low-class.
I think I have to second Amy Adams, she might have just the sort of persona that would fit.
She wasn't the right age then, but Sarah Chalke would be a good choice if they were making it now.
If you were going to choose a movie as a candidate for 'one of the all time greats' that would be widely recognized and agreed on, what would it be? Not the best movie of all time, but a movie you could get widespread agreement would be a candidate for that (with some people of course considering it the best, but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.) For example, maybe Casablanca?