Entertainment | December 03, 2007 | 3 comments

Diablo Cody - Climbing the Stripper Pole to Stardom

source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/arts/juno.php

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If you are a fan of the indie version of the human drama, it would be tough to top the one about the plucky Midwestern girl who used a stripper pole to shimmy her way up and out of a drab office cubicle and grab her piece of the Hollywood dream.

A few years ago, Brook Busey-Hunt was typing copy at a Minneapolis advertising agency and walked by the Skyway Lounge, a skeevy strip bar where desiccated women grind out a living a dollar at a time. Good Catholic girl that she was, Busey-Hunt saw an ad for amateur night and had a naughty epiphany. And the rest is, well, a stage name, a blog, a book and a screenwriting career.

Now named Diablo Cody, she wrote a screenplay that became "Juno," a film directed by Jason Reitman set for release in the United States and parts of Europe and Latin America throughout the winter. The story of a maniacally verbal 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant and decides to give the baby to a childless couple, "Juno" is on most every short list for an Oscar for original screenplay.

Sitting recently at the Rainbow, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles draped in rock history, Cody, 29, did not pretend that her life was anything other than a fairy tale, albeit one where the role of the glass slippers is played by a pair of stripper's stilettos.

"You make this really unexpected, half-cocked decision and all of a sudden it creates this weird energy that turns into something else," she said during lunch. A self-described geek who had led a very insular life, she said that getting naked for strangers was her version of self-improvement, a way of transgressing her upbringing and opening up other doors. Unlike many strippers, Cody is a crisscross of tattoos and post-punk fashion, sort of Suicide Girl meets Riot Grrrl.

YES! I love her!
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3 comments // Diablo Cody - Climbing the Stripper Pole to Stardom

  • VoyagerFilms
  • josephcapra
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    • I really get miffed when I hear opportunistic dbags like Diablo Cody glamourize stripping as a means of getting publicity. It's irresponsible and dangerous to suggest that there is nothing wrong with the sex trade, or, as she argues in her book, that she felt somehow more exploited being a copy editor or whatever she was. STRIPPING DESTROYS LIVES.
      Although there are rare exceptions, most of these girls leave broke, addicted,psychologically and often even physically scarred, and the strip club owners are still there seeking to "empower" more young women.
      Did getting kicked out of the house at 17 drive you to become a copy editor? Did you develop a coke habit just to numb yourself so that you could get through your day as a copy editor? Did your abusive, pimp figure "boyfriend" coerce you into copy editing and take all your money to buy drugs, and threaten to beat you if you did not earn enough? Did you have to learn to to be fake and invent a whole fake persona and become sociopathically manipulative in order to earn money as a copy editor and avoid being stalked by people you met at work? Did your employer encourage you to work drunk, turn his back on drug dealers in your workplace and even buy you drugs and alcohol? I could continue, but I think I've made my point: This bitch made a Pollyana-ish romp down the block E strip clubs and porn shops as a cute little publicity stunt and comes away telling people it's really ok to be a stripper. I wonder how many dead hookers saw " Pretty Woman" ...and I wonder how many more will idolize this POS.for being an ubercool ex-stripper. She gets my vote for "Worst Person".

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  • MatthewDenton
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