Posted on 08/31/2004 9:14:03 AM PDT by presidio9
The word "funny" is not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name "Gore." Last year, when Miramax announced it had commissioned Kristin Gore, daughter of Al, to write a comic novel about a single woman working in Washington, Jay Leno turned the book into a punch line of his own. "It's about a Capitol Hill staffer who works with a congressman on a health-care subcommittee," he said. "Apparently that boring gene doesn't fall far from the tree." Turns out, yes it does.
"Sammy's Hill" is a laugh-out-loud literary debut, certain to draw comparisons to "Bridget Jones's Diary." Samantha Joyce, its idealistic heroine, is a whiz at the office and a wreck everywhere else. She gets a neck rash when she meets a cute guy, seeks out telemarketers for romantic advice, can't Rollerblade worth a damn and obsesses over questions like how she'd get ready for work each morning if, say, a lion ripped off her right arm. ("People laughed, but I lived only a few short miles from the zoo.") Columbia Pictures has already snapped up the film rights, and Gore, 27, is writing the screenplay. Heady stuff for a first-time author, and she knows it. "It's odd just having people you don't know reading the book," she says, laughing. "I'm, like, 'Is that allowed?' "
Raised in Washington, Gore graduated from Harvard, wrote for The Harvard Lampoon and honed her comedy chops as a TV writer for both Matt Groening's "Futurama" and "Saturday Night Live." Fun as that was, she was getting restless. "I wanted to explore the world beyond one-liners," she says. "I was always writing other people's characters and story lines. I guess I was sort of greedy for my own."
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"Lying liars" was projection. The NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, and others have been shown to run news articles that were COMPLETELY fabricated. Not a biased presentation of the facts, outright lies created by someone at a desk.
Kristin? Kristin... Kristin... Is this the one that got busted at the high school party when she was 17 for drinking out on the street in a parked car?
Yes it is. Actually got Daddy to do a couple of guest spots where he was lampooned. (As a head in a jar)
"Mean Girls" was a big hit. It opened at #1, and according to Box Office Mojo, made over $113 million worldwide, on a production budget of $17 mil and $25 mil for promotion. That doesn't even include the upcoming TV, cable and DVD sales/rental profits. It was also really good, one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time, and I'm a comedy writer myself. Don't know why some people on FR are so down on it, since it's really funny, and it had no political messages whatsoever that I can recall. We should be encouraging that.
Thanks for the info. I'm not down on it...just rpasse on what I had heard..which was obviously incorrect info..So, as penance..I'll rent it this weekend...is it out yet?
Bombed? Huh?
"Mean Girls" pulled in $86 million here and $27 million abroad on a production budget of $17 million. It hasn't come out on video yet, of course, nor has it gone on TV.
I'd take a few "bombs" like that (especially if Lindsay Lohan was in them). I wouldn't be working anymore either, since I'd be filthy rich and retired.
Yes, dear. If only people you know read the book, it will never be a best-seller.
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