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Diablo Cody is an Academy Award-winning blogger and writer. She started out working as a stripper and wrote her first memoir entitled Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper. In 2007 she wrote the screenplay for the film Juno, for which she won the 2008 Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Her television series United States of Tara debuts in 2009.
During the Television Critics Association tour representatives from the network The CW announced that Cody will have a guest starring role on the program 90210.BuzzSugar: 90210 Fangirl Diablo Cody (January 14, 2009)
Diablo Cody is set to produce S. G. Browne's forthcoming novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. The screenplay will be adapted by Geoff LaTulippe. Cinematical: Diablo Cody Grabs Another Horror Story
- Birth Name: Brook Busey-Hunt
- Born: June 14, 1978
- Hometown: Lemont, Illinois
- Graduated: University of Iowa with a degree in media studies
- 2007: Ranked #38 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Smartest People in Hollywood
- Pen name: taken on a trip to Cody, Wyoming. "Diablo" is Spanish for "devil".
- 2008: One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS
- 2008: Won Oscar for "Best Original Screenplay"
- Home: Los Angeles, California
Notable Projects
- 2007: Juno
- 2008: Jennifer's Body
- 2009: United States of Tara
Quotes
"I think teenage girls deserve a better shake in cinema. 'God knows people might say the dialogue in Juno is too stylized, but I've met so many hyperarticulate teenage girls who are not just shallow and image-obsessed."—Diablo CodyEntertainment Weekly: Diablo Cody: From Ex-Stripper to A-Lister (November 9, 2007)On being picked by Spielberg to write for The United States of Tara:
- "I've never met him in person. Isn't that awesome? It's like Charlie's Angels. So we had the call, and he said, 'Okay, go write it.' I walked outside and just went numb. E.T. is the first film I ever saw in the theater. I sank down to the curb and put my head between my knees."—Diablo CodyEntertainment Weekly: Diablo Cody: From Ex-Stripper to A-Lister (November 9, 2007)
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Diablo Cody on Amazon
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of An Unlikely Stripper - $14.00
Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. On a whim, she signed up for amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. She didn't win a prize that night, but sh...
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Entertainment Weekly December 21 2007, Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson's War, Diablo Cody, Titanic 10 Years Later (#970) - $1.00
Entertainment magazine featuring Charlies Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, Titanic 10 Years Later, Diablo Code EW's newest columnist, Wesley Snipes on his bizarre downfall and upcoming trial and much more.
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Entertainment Weekly (June 13, 2008) Dwayne Johnson (The Next A-List; The Top Stars taking Hollywood by storm, Shia Labeouf; Emmy wish list; Diablo Cody) - $5.00
New, never opened. Cover, Corners and pages in excellent condition. I only had to cut my address out. I just dont have time to read any more due to school. I will ship using USPS TRACKING System, in a covered, protective package within one ...
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Writers on Writing - Diablo Cody - $19.95
Diablo Cody was born and raised in Chicago. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA-winning screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist and author who first came to the public's attention with her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her...
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper - $15.00
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV’s The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave’s Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four,...
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