is funny.

Bob, did you know she was a stripper before she became a screenwriter?

I think that fact may have come up in passing now and then.

Yrs, I believe it's brought every other sentence when she is the subject. ;)

Wow, I still haven't seen JUNO, but I've never seen such a quick backlash against someone.

Can't have our strippers getting uppity, now can we?

As long as they remember that the American Dream isn't for the likes of them, then all is still in order.

That's just general snark and directed at no one in particular, other than a weird prudish nattering that I've seen building against the woman.

My, my, what little green eyes they have!

Wake me up when the backlash to the backlash starts.

Sofia Coppola?

They tore her down after GODFATHER III, then they gave her an Oscar, now I'm not sure how she's seen by they.

I hate THEY! :D

Wow, does that ever reek of desperation.

You know, I’m coming up on my three month anniversary of Juno-viewing resistance. The oh-so-droll delivery of Ellen Page put me off instantly – but perhaps, in this case, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Maybe one day I’ll be famous enough for a group of snarky, fringe-theater trolls to spoof me!

Hey, I like JUNO. No hatin' from this corner. But what can I tell ya this did make me laugh, particularly the "Jason Reitman" part (though the actor is more Harold Ramis-ish). Look--you put yourself out there (something screenwriters rarely do), you have to be prepared take the heat, and as a blogger she knows that comes with the territory. And, anyway, she has an Oscar and several million dollars worth of writing, I imagine directing and who knows maybe acting gigs ahead of her, so I wouldn't shed too many tears on her behalf--maybe as many as Indira Gandhi when Andrea Martin parodied her, Brooke Shields when she got the business from Catherine O'Hara, and the generations of public figures pilloried by SNL.

From what I've read on Cody's IMDB messageboard, she became a stripper just to see what it like--it was more an experiment than anything--but I don't understand why she or her media promotes would put that out there in the first place---but hey, she did put herself out there like you said,BOB, so she needs to get out of the kitchen if she feels she can't handle it. However well it's worked as a promotional marketing thing, I still don't see what that has to do with the film---she did the stripping thing long before she even wrote the film---there's been no connection made between the two. I haven't seen JUNO yet,and don't understand what all the hype's about, but just re-watched an earlier film starring Ellen Page called HARD CANDY, (an indie thriller that got little hype or promotion when it came out a few years back) in which she's excellent as a young teen who embarks on her own unconventional revenge against a suspected pedophile---I thought the ending was weak, but the whole film is definitely worth watching, nail-biting suspense and all, up until then.

And indeed Ellen Page is terrific in HARD CANDY. I should be "mad" at her and not Cody--Cody won me a point in my Oscar pool, but I (we) lost one to Cotillard.

HARD CANDY is on cable a lot, but it's always pan-and-scan, so I have been blowing it off. Is it still worth catching in that format? The buzz on the film is quite good.

I'm upset that in the now-filming Hollywood live-action version of the anime classic, "Dragon Ball," the part of Bulma--a natural for Ellen Page if ever there was one--was given to Emmy Rossum! :o

Funniest thing I've seen this week... besides the Oscar broadcast, that is.

Count me as a stone hater of JUNO - indie, my ass!!. How people fall for this bullshit, I'll never know...

I think Ellen Page is a good/decent actress, but like Debra Winger, I just hate most of the stuff she's in -- HARD CANDY (another overrated turd), JUNO, X-MEN 3... I hope I'll eventually like something that she's in, just so I won't get dirty looks from people when the subject comes up.

Not a fan.

Well made (though overslick), and Page & Patrick Wilson are great, but the writing's so pedantic and self-satisfied - and then it has the nerve to both stack its deck and pull its punches.

A dishonest, superficial film looking for controversy.

'Cuz she's a badass!

Well, she did write an entire book about her stripping adventure, called CANDY GIRL. It's not exactly a deep, insightful memoir, but there are a few chuckles along the way, but I couldn't help feeling a lot was, uh, left out, if you know what I mean. ;)
Still have yet to see JUNO.