Juno

So, over at the Telluride, a little Jason Reitman film named Juno is apparently the darling of the film festival. This is the sort of news that just makes me smile, ever since I read a cnn article about a Minneapolis girl that became a stripper on a whim, kept up a popular blog, and eventually published a memoir (Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper). It sounded interesting and giving the blog a quick visit, I quickly ordered the book and devoured it in a single day. It was amusingly written, compelling and funny, with a prose that seemed to jump off the page. Unchallenging, but that wasn't a fault with this sort of story. I fell for it immediately.

I remember reading on her blog about how said author, who goes by the name Diablo Cody (which was her blogging pseudonym that just sort of caught on and stuck), had written a screenplay which became a bit of a hot commodity in Hollywood. Said screenplay was picked up and eventually directed by Jason Reitman (who made the wonderful Thank You For Smoking). I had a feeling it would become a good movie. Apparently it has, drawing a massive standing ovation and, notably, earning several glowing reviews from Roger Ebert. There's buzz about a potential Oscar nomination, though that's a little premature at this point.

Still, reading her book, you'd know she had a future in the pencil-and-paper business. Good for her.