September 2009
8 posts
Deal of the Day:
TELEVISION RIGHTS MaryJo Buttafuoco’s NYT bestseller, GETTING IT THROUGH MY THICK SKULL, optioned to Jonathan Eskenas at Dick Clark Productions, for development as a reality TV (Life After Buttafuoco) that will include Mary Jo, her fiance Stu and their “BradyBunch” family of five children, by Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary Management (who will...
Hi, I’m a cliche!
“You have a density of population that is for the most part pretty well educated, employed and, obviously, through basic aesthetics, is used to a certain quality of life,” Mr. Falcinelli [the owner of Frankie’s, my favorite restaurant] said. “It’s maybe not the top finance guy at Goldman Sachs — it’s the back office of Condé Nast, the writers, the producers.”
From my profile of plus-size model Crystal Renn on The Daily Beast:
“I have not met somebody who put their body through what I did to get what they want,” model Crystal Renn said the other day, speaking from London. “A lot of these girls are young girls—they’re already a size 6, so of course they go on a diet and get down to a size 2. To go from a size 14—I was fighting...
Dept. of Corrections
The record now reflects that Lauren Aguilar did not make out with Nick Gray on New Year’s. She only kissed him.
GMST*
A few weeks ago I posted on Tumblr that I was looking for a designer, and I got a whole bunch of responses, and I ended up choosing the lovely Loreal Monroe. She designed just the website I was looking for! Thanks, Loreal!
The URL is www.doreeshafrir.com, and there you will find my clips and my resume and various biographical tidbits.
Also, my business cards are ready and I am picking them up...
New (School) Year's Resolution
maura:
Dear Tumblr:
Can we all maybe make a teensy bit of an effort to learn how to punctuate in honor of September rolling around? This especially applies to those of us who consider ourselves “professional” “bloggers.” (I’m not immune! I use way too many commas.) Because I got sucked into reading an argument and all I could focus on was the misuse of “it’s,” and that is, like, no fun at all.
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