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Diablo Cody: ‘I Am Better At This Than You’
2:00AM Kyle Buchanan | After taking two months off from her Myspace blog (but not her Twitter), Oscar-winning leopard print fan Diablo Cody returned to the medium yesterday — but this was not to be some simple homecoming. Cody had a bone to pick with fans who she sensed had begun to reject the cool, refreshing taste of Sunny D in favour of a nice, tall glass of Haterade, and the Juno screenwriter wasn’t about to suffer their attacks in silence. Instead, in a post entitled “Hello Again! (Starring Shelly Long),” Cody decided to get something off her chest (and it wasn’t whipped cream): More »
Diablo Cody Brings the Poetry of Baby Batter One Step Closer to the Mainstream
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Having flirted with dangerous levels of underexposure since winning her Best Screenplay Oscar a little over a month ago, Diablo Cody is back with a double-barreled blast of creative miracles. First up, The Hollywood Reporter notes that Cody’s long-rumoured comedy series The United States of Tara — starring Toni Collette as the title character afflicted with multiple personalities — is nearing a full-season order from Showtime. We can handle this without much difficulty — and by “handle” we mean “believe,” because the second project has the calendar-conscious skeptic in us praying for an April Fool’s Day revelation: “Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs,” a 15-track collection boasting a ditty performed by star Ellen Page, will debut exclusively through iTunes for a suggested list price of $9.99 on April 8, distributor Rhino Records said. Page performs ‘Zub Zub,’ a song written by the film’s Oscar-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody, for a scene that was eventually cut for time. Page’s character bemoans her fate with such lines as “he filled me with baby batter, then we ate some orange tic tacs after.” More »
What’s Your Dental Damage, Kermit The Blog?
7:22AM Mark Graham | When Ellen Page strutted onto the stage of Studio 8H to deliver her monologue on this week’s episode of SNL dressed like one of the Sweathogs, we didn’t pay it much mind. With the benefit of hindsight (and after having seen this skit), maybe our eyebrows should have risen ever so slightly. But, at the time, we were too busy enjoying Andy Samberg’s impression of Diablo Cody to wonder about the Ellen Page Sexuality Sweepstakes. While all you bloggers and froggers out there will likely concur that his Diablo didn’t quite reach the level of the Diablo impersonator in the Funny Or Die video, we did love the calvacade of blog references that he managed to mix into his impression. The video, along with a complete list of all of the blog-related catchphrases in the making follows after the jump: More »
Diablo Cody, The Gloria Steinem Of The Stripper Set?
3:02AM Molly Friedman | As the bra-burning women’s rights activists etched into our heads, being a feminist means having a choice: you can either choose to bake pies alongside June Cleaver, or you can choose to spray whip cream on your tits and shake your moneymaker in front of salivating men. But whichever path you choose to trek, you can always win an Oscar! Just like Diablo Cody (the artist formerly known as Brook Busey-Hunt, aka Candy Girl)! As you might expect, Diablo’s triumph is proving to be an inspiration for aspiring pole dancers everywhere. As one stripper wrote on her blog, “I can’t tell you how excited I am by [Cody] being shot out of the fame cannon and into the dazzling sky.” Us too! But just in case Diablo’s win wasn’t enough to inspire these lacy ladies to put away their chaps for good, just wait til they read Cody’s MySpace response to Tuesday’s nudie pic revelations: “I personally put my vag out there with pride, ladies and gents. And you bet your ass I’d do it again if the Beef Council would cough up the proper endorsement money.” More »
Diablo Cody Nude Shots Surface
4:24AM Mark Graham | It’s quite the week of firsts for Diablo Cody. She won her first Oscar, she became embroiled in her first red carpet scandal and now, the first nude pictures of her have hit The Internets. Probably not surprising, considering her famed and well-marketed history as a stripper turned blogger turned screenwriter. A few of the more SFW pics, including her faithful recreation of Ali Larter’s whipped cream bikini shot from Varsity Blues (somewhere, a Vanity Fair photog is kicking himself for not thinking of this idea first), appear after the jump. More »
Why Did Diablo Cody Refuse To Wear Those Million Dollar Shoes? She’ll Tell You Herself!
3:31AM Molly Friedman | Was Oscar Winner™ Diablo Cody just being an indie snob when she chose not to sport those infamous million dollar shoes or is she beyond cool for refusing to act as some designer’s publicity stunt? After reading her MySpace message in response to designer Stuart Weitzman’s offering, we’re inclined to go with the latter. Plus, silver shoes decked out in diamonds worth more than her tacky dress would be overkill even for Miss Busey-Hunt. As she put it: “I must have somehow missed the part where my shoes cost a MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS and my ‘choice’ of footwear would be publicized nationwide. I honestly thought they were just sparkly shoes. Mr. Weitzman did mention that the diamonds were real when I tried them on, but I’m not Nancy Rockman, Expert Gemologist.” More »
10:24AM Molly Friedman | While it remains to be seen whether or not Diablo Cody will be joining the likes of Cameron Crowe and Woody Allen on the list of Oscar-winning writers, one thing is certain: she’ll be wearing Million Dollar Shoes to the Academy Awards on Sunday. Tacky tastemaker Stuart Weitzman’s infamous Kwiat diamond-encrusted shoes will adorn the Juno scriptess’s feet as she walks the carpet. We are proud to report that this news marks Brook’s official jump from Former Stripper to Rental Footwear Prostitute. [SF Gate] More »
Diablo Cody’s Next Catchphrase? ‘Fried Bologna Is The Bomb!’
11:07AM Mark Graham | Although we did recently declare a temporary moratorium on burger phone jokes, it is worth noting that a blogger who goes by the handle of Big Ross recently got his hands on a copy of Diablo Cody’s first post-Juno script, entitled Jennifer’s Body. Megan Fox (Transformers) and director Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux) are attached to the horror/thriller about a cheerleader who somehow becomes possessed by a demonic spirt which compels her to start offing all of the dudes at her high school. And while we haven’t actually seen the script ourselves, from what Big Ross describes, we feel pretty safe declaring that Diablo’s streak of consecutive Oscar nominations will come to an end at one. More »
