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Diablo Cody's new show picked up by ShowtimeDiablo Cody has officially survived the backlash she received after writing last year's hit comedy Juno. Yes, she's a former stripper and she has a blog titled "P---y Ranch," but that doesn't mean she can't write hilarious scripts. Not only did the Academy agree, but so does Steven Spielberg, who will be the producer of Cody's new show on Showtime, The United States of Tara.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that 12 episodes have been greenlight for the show, which will star Toni Collette. She will play "a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder."
Collette is a brilliant character actress. She has starred in comedies like Muriel's Wedding and About a Boy, as well as dramas like The Sixth Sense and The Hours, and those that seem to straddle the line (Little Miss Sunshine). It's finally time for Collette to be the star, and The United States of Tara could be her platform.
Playing Tara's husband will be John Corbett, otherwise known as Aidan on Sex and the City (which he will never live down). And if you trust Wikipedia (which, why should you, really?) Corbett will be acting in some extreme circumstances, as he'll have to adjust to his on-screen wives multiple personalities which Wikipedia says will include, "an aggressive male biker, a promiscuous teenage girl, and a Martha Stewart-like homemaker." They've only just begun filming the show this spring, but I can't wait to see Cody's dialogue in action. I wonder how familiar she is with aggressive male biker speak. Do you think you'll be tuning in? Submitted by on June 5, 2008 - 9:00am. |
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Sounds interesting
I will give it a shot because how often do you get original ideas on american tv?
Actually I am not sure if that is entirely original...hmmm. Whatever I still might watch.
As for Corbett...I can forgive the thought of him in that show Sex in the City because he will always be Chris Stevens the DJ to me.
Never met a pearl quite like you that could shimmer and rot at the same time through
Chris in the Morning!!!
As for Corbett...I can forgive the thought of him in that show Sex in the City because he will always be Chris Stevens the DJ to me.
Amen, sister!
YAY!
I can't wait for this series!
I love both Diablo Cody and Toni Collette and I couldn't agree more on how this will be Collette's chance to shine :)
Diablo has a wicked way of writing, so it should be quite interesting and funny.
Um....I want to....really...
What to do...
I have Showtime - and bought it to support TLW and after the final season I'm trying to decide if i should cancel it in solidarity because they will not have any gay programming on after next year.
This new announcement makes the decision more difficult- I love Weeds and Dexter and now this is coming!
I don't know if you guys saw Ellen Page's opening monologue on SNL but they did a wicked impersonation of Diablo Cody- so funny!
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i am uberly excited for
i am uberly excited for this series...
it sounds like The Three Faces of Eve, but awesomer and possibly on crack.
hooray
that is all
Sounds great!! I love Tony
Can't wait!
Diablo Cody + Toni Collette + Showtime = me excited!
It sounds wonderful!
Diablo Cody
There is a fantastic interview in the latest issue of Bust magazine with Diablo Cody. She talks a lot about her new show, latest movies, and what it's like to want to create non-traditional roles for women in Hollywood. So for anyone who is sick of watching the same female sterotypes over and over (and frankly who isn't?) I'd highly recommend the interview. It's the only extensive one she's given since she won her oscar.
Not that it matters, but does anyone else get a seriously queer vibe from her? I know she is recently divorced but she put "Not Sure" as her sexual orientation on her MySpace page. Perhaps I'm just projecting here : ) It wouldn't be the first time...
Can't wait
I can't wait to see this show.
I love Toni Collette, I loved her in Muriel's Wedding, in Little Miss Sunshine and in In her shoes. She's a great actress. And with Diablo Cody, the show is likely to be great.
"Do you think you'll be
"Do you think you'll be tuning in?"
Yes.
Interesting
I have to agree with many of the others. I think this will be a very interesting series especially because I adore Toni Collette. I've seen just about everything she's been in, and no one should forget In Her Shoes. A suprisingly excellent film IMO.
I think that this will be the make or break chance for Diablo to silence the skeptics. Can she pull it off? If it's as clever and intelligent as Juno, you bet your ass she can.
THIS LOOKS AWESOME!
I loved Juno. I thought is was a spectacular film. The thngs that freak people out are usually the ones that they need to see the most, eppecially here in the USA!
I'm really looking forward to checking out this show. I really iike Toni Collette. She's always great.
whoopee!
Can't wait! The fucking brilliant Diablo Cody + the inimitable Toni Collete. What a combo. Bound to be fascinating. Anyone know when its coming out and what channel it'll be on?
Actually I wondered why Diablo Cody didn't make the hot 100. I know she's a writer - who don't usually get much exposure - but she was front and centre (with Ellen Page) during the insane Juno junket. And if anyone's ever read her Pussy Ranch or her current MySpace websites, she's an original. And she is so smoking HOT!
PS re if she's family...
Yeah
John Corbett gets to date Bo
OMG I'm Excited
Excuse the ignorance...
As far as I know (which
As far as I know (which isn't much, admittedly) she didn't enjoy all the attention, popularity, etc. Didn't she take down her blog when Juno started getting really really famous or something?
Then again, I don't really have any idea what I'm talking about, and am mostly going off of things I've heard, haha
in any case, I'm excited for the new show. TV needs more good writers
"This is a tree on fire with love, but it's still scary since most people think love only looks like one thing instead of the whole world."
Sounds Awesome
No one who has it, I promise you.
Usually, when you experience something traumatic, you fight or flee. If you can't do either, sometimes your brain will shut off - you'll still record the memory in your subconscious, but you won't remember it in your conscious memories, until later, when it's triggered by stress or something that reminds you of what happened, like a smell or sound. Then you have a flashback and freak the hell out. That's Post Traumatic Stress.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is an extreme version -- when the traumatic event happens to you over and over - things like war, childhood sexual abuse, etc. Your brain doesn't just shut off, it compartmentalizes, and creates separate parts of you to deal with different aspects of life.
I have a friend with this disorder, and have seen her switch from one "personality" to another. It's DEEPLY upsetting, both to her and to me.
I absolutely HATE the way this disorder is portrayed in the media, like some freakshow circus act. I've never once seen it portrayed correctly, and they do a massive disservice to people with this disorder, who are very troubled and usually need institutional help to try to keep some sort of quality of life.
Although I love Diablo Cody and Toni Collette, from the description I see above, this is more of the same utter crapola that's been done before, and will probably make me really, really mad.
I meant this in a lighter mood
I'll be looking foward to
diablo cody!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dies of happiness* lmao
Definitely ...
Toni Collette should have her own Pantheon ... and Diablo Cody is the best thing since sandwich pickle slices....
Speak what we feel not what we ought to say...
I like Toni Collette.
I like Toni Collette. Clockwatchers is one of my favorite movies ever.
I think it's great that Diablo Cody is a successful, feminist woman in the male-dominated entertainment industry, but "Honest to blog"? "I felt like a supersize Massengill douchebag"? Come on. I'll know she's the real deal when she writes characters that don't talk the way she does.
Inside Diablo's World
Is there a lighter side to multiple personalities?
Yes, there is! The serious side is that only children under the age of 9 become multiples (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or as described above, think PTSD to the extreme. If a child is not DID by age 9 from repeated horrific abuse (usually in incestuous environment), DID isn't going to happen. The tragedy (aside from that awful childhood) is that the memories that the DID protects the child from for survival purposes do not surface until later in life--usually in the 30s and 40s. It's very disarming when memories begin.
With good therapy, it's a matter of time before healing. The switching to a different personality is usually the result of a trigger or a task where one identity has the knowledge of "how to". I'm a survivor who healed and went on to earn my degree in counseling. Have been psychotherapist treating trauma survivors. It can be fascinating and funny. My greatest wish is that Steven Spielberg and Diablo Cody are using experts on this topic so that the world gets an honest perspective of life as a multiple...as opposed to the media propaganda.
Honestly, all with DID do not have homicidal personalities as the media would have you believe. Women rarely become offenders. And not all men become offenders. Healing is an enormous task worthy of acknowledgement rather than fear out of ignorance. I am very much looking forward to this show.