January 8, 2008 | 8 Comments

2007_12_06_cody.jpgApparently, publicists for “Juno” writer and former stripper professional exotic dancer Diablo Cody get a bit touchy these days when folks ask her about her previous work, though we hope she takes out the g-string she’s been hiding in her purse the whole time and throttles interviewers like Variety’s Peter Bart with it when they ask her whether she’s planning to “be a normal woman and have children”. Don’t forget where you came from, Diablo—it could come in handy some day. (cinematical.com)

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  • Conrad

    I guess a good portion of the world can’t handle ‘exotic dancer’ as a career, but there is nothing wrong with being, or having been an exotic dancer. Besided, we are all born naked anyway, why not have fun and dance.

  • Justin K. Rivers

    Bart is just jealous ’cause he can’t dance.

  • Conrad

    s, not d. I’m making typos left and right this morning.

  • CloudCarrier

    Sounds like reverse psychology to me. To think that Cody would be shocked or gas faced by Peter Bart on television seems out of character (please read into that designation as far as possible, or not), so perhaps she’s playing along to some degree, too. I could sit here trying to bust that riddle of double and triple standards all day, but I’d still be left with that eye-roller of a movie in my subconscious, and that’s the saddest part of all.

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    The problem is Diablo’s script is too smart (classic sense, not vernacular) by half. It tries to capture how teenagers would like to think they sound, but after Juno says, “Can I excuse myself to the bathroom? Being pregnant makes me have to pee like Seabiscuit”, I was gone. All that statement tells me is when Ms Cody wrote the script (’03-4, around the time that the book Seabiscuit experienced a sales-spike & when the film version hit screens). & if you would argue that Cody, at least, would have said something similar as a late teen, in the late 80s, I would have to disagree. Unless she was quite an eccentric gal, I doubt the phrase, “I have to pee like Strike the Gold” or “My bladder’s about to burst like Seattle Slew’s”, ever passed her lips. So, yes, not keen on Ms Cody’s film-writing. & really not keen on ironic stripping — or engaging in any line of work “ironically”.

  • Conrad

    Who know a movie could be ruined by a line about having to pee.

  • Conrad

    *knew

  • Jonnobot

    (Note to self: Start using the line “My bladder’s about to burst like Seattle Slew’s” from now on at every available opportunity.)