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'Star Wars' 35th Anniversary: Jon Favreau, Eli Roth & 13 Other Filmmakers On How George Lucas' Classic Influenced Them

The Huffington Post | Mike Ryan | Posted 05.25.2012

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This Friday, the original "Star Wars" (or, "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope," if you must) turns 35. In honor of the landmark film's landmark birt...

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Sarah Tressler: Marketing Genius or One Lucky Stripper?

Sheila Hageman | Posted 04.09.2012

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did she have something to do with her own outing? Was working as a society page journalist all a ruse to create controversy in an otherwise has-been profession of stripping?

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If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother: At the Athena Awards

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2012

Recipients are asked to adhere to only one caveat: they must speak about a woman who has influenced or inspired them, not their mother. An act of rebellion, this rule was immediately violated.

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ReThink Review: Young Adult -- The Return of the (Prom) Queen

Jonathan Kim | Posted 03.20.2012

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Young Adult is clearly set up as award bait for Charlize Theron, who gets the chance to be unlikable in almost every way.

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My Lunch With Charlize Theron of Young Adult

Jay Weston | Posted 02.18.2012

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After taking a sabbatical for three years ("I was happily busy doing other creative things"), Charlize Theron is back in a stunning new movie, Young Adult, and I am delighted to report that it is a real winner in every respect.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Jason Reitman on Young Adult

Dan Persons | Posted 02.15.2012

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Bless screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman their twisted, little hearts. Young Adult isn't season-specific, but it does serve as a healthy counterbalance to all that holiday growth and belonging.

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The Delightful Darkness Of 'Young Adult'

Posted 02.15.2012

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"Young Adult," the new film from screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman, offers a chilling twist on a time-tested formula. Our heroine, i...

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PHOTOS: Love It Or Leave It?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 12.16.2011

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Screenwriters tend to stay, well, behind the screen. Most moviegoers don't usually know what the screenwriters' names are, much less recognize them by...

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YA Author Surprised By 'Young Adult'

Maureen Johnson | Posted 02.08.2012

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The previews of Young Adult suggested a light rom-com. I was in no way prepared for what I got.

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'Young Adult' Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up

| Posted 12.09.2011

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By Margaret Bristol for Bookish: In 2007, Diablo Cody won over adults and teens alike with her Academy Award-winning screenplay for "Juno" -- bring...

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Would You Break Up With Charlize Theron?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ashley Reich | Posted 12.09.2011

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Oscar-award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody makes no apologies for Mavis Gary, the leading lady of her newest film "Young Adult." The whiskey-drinkin...

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Stars Go Balls Out & Make A Brave Choice

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.05.2012

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Diablo Cody had a choice to make. After disappointing critics and audiences with her 2010 film, "Jennifer's Body," the Oscar-winning screenwriter bega...

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America The Bitter Beauty Queen?

Michael Hogan | Posted 02.04.2012

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I'm the entertainment guy, so it's my job to make you feel good and distract you from your troubles! In that spirit, here are five ways that America isn't like Mavis Gary, the beautiful but utterly reprehensible protagonist of Young Adult.

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Hollywood Stars Remember High School

Posted 12.05.2011

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High school is one of the few experiences that never leaves us. Whether you're headed to the cafeteria this minute or making plans for your 50th reuni...

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This Star Has A Very, Very Important Message

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 01.31.2012

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"What I wish they would tell kids in high school is that you have to understand that high school is an artificially compressed ecosystem where it's al...

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Movie Review: Young Adult

Scott Mendelson | Posted 01.30.2012

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Young Adult is a surprisingly potent and insightful dramedy, all the more effective for its understated nature and its off-the-cuff black comedy construction.

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Out to Lunch With Charlize Theron

Regina Weinreich | Posted 01.30.2012

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It is hard to feel sorry for Charlize Theron. The Academy Award-winning actress, for the role of Aileen Wuomos in Monster when she was famously puffed up and made up to emphasize the serial killer's tough look, is in fact very pretty, like the most popular girl in your high school.

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Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture

Govindini Murty | Posted 01.29.2012

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Theron's Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims.

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Charlize Theron Ruins Her Dress, Goes Ballistic In Public

Posted 01.29.2012

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One of the great joys of "Young Adult" is that its protagonist, Charlize Theron's Mavis Gary, is unrelenting in her awfulness: she's coarse, self-indu...

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PHOTOS: An Arianna Huffington 'Young Adult' Celebration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 11.25.2011

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Tuesday night, at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, AOL and The Huffington Post hosted a screening of "Young Adult," a new film written by Diablo ...

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Beloved Teen Novels Moving Toward The Big Screen

Posted 01.21.2012

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Sure, "Breaking Dawn" earned a gobsmacking $235 million worldwide this weekend, and the first film adaptation of "The Hunger Games" is drawing unsight...

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Charlize Theron is A Whiskey-Swilling Mess

Posted 12.06.2011

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Sure, she's not a serial killer, but Charlize Theron's new role doesn't cast her in a very sweet light at all. Theron, who won a Best Actress Oscar f...

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'The Evil Dead' Gets A Remake! And Diablo Cody Is Involved

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.12.2011

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Fresh off our recent "Rewind" column, which drew attention to cult-hero-turned-Hollywood director Sam Raimi's first foray into television, Deadline re...

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Diablo Cody Makes Directorial Debut

ew.com | Posted 08.30.2011

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Diablo Cody, who rocketed to fame and Oscar glory with her screenplay for the 2007 breakout hit Juno, is set to make her debut as a director with Lamb...

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Diablo Cody Welcomes Baby Boy Marcello

popeater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Screenwriter Diablo Cody, 32, gave birth to her first son yesterday, announcing the happy news on Twitter. "We had our boy early this morning! Marcell...

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