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Diablo Cody

Jan 29

Can Broadway’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Do Alanis Morissette’s ’90s Classic Justice?

Can the team behind Broadway's 'Jagged Little Pill' craft a rousing, edgy tribute to the once-reigning Queen of Angst?
By Helen Holmes
Olive Kitteridge sweeps Emmys with an (almost) all female team. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage)
Oct 7

For Women Working Behind the Scenes, Is Television Actually Getting Better?

Somebody pinch me, I must be having that Olive Kitteridge dream again: it finally looks like Hollywood has taken note of the hot new "trend" of letting ladies create and direct their own television programs! My word.
By Drew Grant
Tig Notaro is larger than life. (Observer)
Aug 20

Tig Notaro Has Something to Get Off Her Chest

“Nice turtle,” Tig Notaro says when I meet her at an HBO boardroom along with my small Chinatown red-eared slider in its sad lunchbox-size aquarium. “Are we having him for lunch? Turtle soup?” If Ms. Notaro—a comedian celebrated for her self-deprecation and deadpan delivery—is in any way put out to be sharing a meal with a floating salmonella factory, she doesn’t show it. Then again, the 44-year-old-comedian is probably most known for being able to keep a poker face even in the toughest of circumstances.

“I think I’m a nice person,” said Ms. Notaro, who was in town promoting her upcoming HBO special, Boyish Girl, Interrupted (August 22, 10 p.m.). “But ... I can come across as not the warmest.” She chewed an asparagus spear. “I don’t worry about it. People can feel whatever they want about me.”

I wouldn’t call Ms. Notaro cold, but she certainly is unflappable ... perhaps unstoppable. Her recent output evokes hare more than tortoise; consider that her 2015 has already included three specials: Showtime’s Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro, Netflix’s documentary Tig and her first HBO comedy special (as well as her directorial debut) that premieres this Saturday night. And much like Ms. Notaro herself, its humor is derived from the dissociation of humor as a coping mechanism: halfway through Interrupted, Ms. Notaro fiddles with the buttons on her long-sleeved dress shirt, and pretty soon is topless, revealing her post-double mastectomy body.

By Drew Grant
Julianne Hough in the quirky comedy Paradise.
Oct 22

Practically Purgatory: Diablo Cody’s Directorial Debut Is Not Ready for the Big Time

By Rex Reed
Theron.
Dec 7

A Young Adult's Spinster Cycle

By Rex Reed
Sep 21

Box Office Breakdown: Meatballs Anything But Cloudy, Jennifer’s Body Goes to the Morgue

By Christopher Rosen
Sep 18

Opening This Weekend: Movies You May Actually Want to See!

By Christopher Rosen
Aug 27

Tattoo Who? Screenwriter Diablo Cody Gets a Makeover

By Irina Aleksander
Apr 13

Week in DVR: Get Treated by Gabriel Byrne, Immediately! Plus, Donna Martin Matriculates

By Christopher Rosen
Jan 2

Hey, Juno Fans! Diablo Cody’s United States of Tara Premieres Online

By Christopher Rosen
Dec 2

Superstar Avatars

By Gillian Reagan
Jun 24

Borat, Diablo Cody Join Oscar Voting Ranks

By Gillian Reagan
May 5

Whither Twitter?

By Matt Haber
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