This is from the IMDB:
Diablo Cody is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Minnesota to live with her Internet boyfriend, Jonny who later became her husband. While there, she decided on a whim to take up stripping as a hobby of sorts.
She was working at an ad agency and got a promotion. The job wore her ragged and was something she did not particularly care for. It demanded organization which is something at which she was not very good. Eventually, she quit her day job with Jonny’s blessings and began stripping full-time. During the course of about a year she went from Amateur Night, which was her first stripping experience, to a place she refers to in her book as Sheiks, then to Déjà Vu, and so on. She then took up work as a phone-sex operator before returning to stripping.
Shortly thereafter she decided to quit stripping and she and Jonny married. They moved to what she refers to as “the 'burbs, and no one strips unless they’re taking a bubble bath.” Her stepdaughter was the flower girl in the wedding.
Wikipedia adds the details:
Cody began a parody blog called Red Secretary, detailing the (fictional) exploits of a secretary living in Belarus.[14] The events were thinly-veiled allegories for events that happened in Cody’s real life, but told from the perspective of a disgruntled, English-idiom-challenged Eastern Bloc girl.
In March 2003, Cody started an adult blog called The Pussy Ranch, using a pen name invented while speeding through Cody, Wyoming[15] listening to the song “El Diablo” by Arcadia.[16] On a whim, Cody signed up for amateur night at a Minneapolis strip club called the Skyway Lounge.[12][17] Having enjoyed the experience, and seeing reader interest, she eventually quit her day job to become a full-time stripper.[18] Cody also spent time working peep shows at Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty and DVD store.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Cody
All of this was before she wrote the script to Juno.
Doesn’t seem that insane. First she met a guy on the internet and moved in with him, then she was a stripper, then she wrote a blog? It’s not like she was a conscripted child soldier in Africa and escaped to a refugee camp or something.
I’ve done all of those things (well, other sex work, not stripping) and I’m pretty sure I’m the most boring person I know.
You should make a movie with Elliot page using fake slang that nobody would ever use.
She did some stripping and she had a blog… am I missing something here? Half the girls I knew in college did that.
The most insane part is how much of a supportive boyfriend/husband Jonny was. Shout out to Jonny
Here’s an actually insane life. Tura Satana from cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Ulster-Scots background … a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California … just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off … Over the next 15 years, Satana tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. “I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them,” she said years later. “They never knew who I was until I told them.” … Around this time, she formed a gang, “the Angeles,” with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. … Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months. … using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. … became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, … She claimed that after singer Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago’s Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined … although she kept the ring. … Satana then starred as “Varla” in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! … created by Russ Meyer … Meyer said Satana was “extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don’t fuck with her! And if you have to fuck her, do it well! She might turn on you!” …
This may be the most petty reason to avoid something ever but, in the commercial for Juno, a girl said ‘honest to blog’ and I instantly hated that girl so fucking much I, to this day, refuse to watch the movie.
It played at the planned parenthood when I was waiting before my abortion, which was funnier than any joke in the movie.
