I use this tumblr as a way to reference stuff I find on the web that I want to find again. It's like when your friend gives you a book, and you're reading it, and she's like, underlined and put notes on all sorts of stuff. I'm that friend! And the internet is that book!
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She was distinctively funny, and her tone was so great, and she’s so current,” Novick says. He reached out to her, and she dismissed him as a creep. ”Some random guy from L.A. is e-mailing me,” recalls Cody. ”I’m not going to take the bait.” For eight months Novick courted her, eventually hooking her up with a New York book agent who scored Cody a deal for her memoir about her state of undress. While Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper was in the works, Novick encouraged her to produce a screenwriting sample so he could persuade a studio to let her adapt the book. She sent him Juno, about a wiseacre 16-year-old who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby up for adoption. ”She pitched me this quirky little comedy that sounded like it could be a Lifetime movie,” says Novick. “But from the second I got the script, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the best thing I’ve ever read.”’
