not necessarily because I want to make the dishes, but for relaxation and inspiration. |
Oh, it's all true, |
The catalyst (here) is a dead body, |
The larger things that this book -- and all my books -- revolve around are a woman's id, ... And how she defines herself in the world around her. ... I've always been interested in issues of what has been defined as maternity and how it's changed. ... For both Kate and Kitty, they're twins in a way; I didn't want to whack the reader over the head with it, but with Kate, her mother was the sun that everything revolves around, and for Kitty, it was about a mother that wasn't there. |
The place looked like an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue, |
the sassy best friend. |
The truth of it is that most novels that go to Hollywood don't get optioned, ... And most novels that get optioned never get made. And of the ones that do get made, it's not always something that the writer's happy with. And I'm so happy with this movie. |
The truth of it is that most novels that go to Hollywood don't get optioned. And most novels that get optioned never get made. And of the ones that do get made, it's not always something that the writer's happy with. And I'm so happy with this movie. |
There was not one American actress who had the acting chops and was either willing to gain enough weight or was that size already, ... That to me is a very sad comment on the sort of diversity in Hollywood. |
Though details of the book are specific to Connecticut, ... what happens on the playground with the mothers (their social competition) is sort of universal. ... The irony is that even the women who seem to be the most together are feeling the same sort of insecurity. I think that there's anxiety felt by women who gave up careers in the city and wonder about the choice, and do that 'The grass is greener' thing. There's this pervasive attitude in America that if you have money nothing can go wrong, which isn't true ... often, economic security in fact is illusory. |
We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books. |
Weight is the physical reality for the character, but it's also a metaphor for all the ways women feel they don't fit in, |
where happiness and happily ever-after doesn't begin at size 0 and end at size 6 and where there are possibilities for love and happiness and professional success and great friends and a wonderful life even if you don't look like one of those girls in the magazines. |
You have these highly educated, high-powered women adjusting to being mothers and they are determined to be the best mothers, |
You need the sizzle to sell the steak. Maybe people will pick up this book and go see the movie. |