Hey Diablo....

Diablo Cody is the next big thing in the hills of Southern California with all the talk about her future in Hollywood. The former stripper took the Twin Cities by storm around two years ago after appearing on David Letterman's Late Show promoting her new book at the time "Candy Girl". Diablo and her book was rewarded by being put into "Dave's Book Club 2006" a funny ripoff of Oprah Winfreys Book Club that Letterman started on his show.

The always interesting Diablo Cody has had a crazy life, well it might be crazy to you and I but for her I bet it has been a fun ride. Cody who was born Brook Busey-Hunt in Illinois did clerical work for a Chicago bankruptcy firm. She is a college graduate who went to school in Iowa. Diablo also met her husband on the internet and the first time they hung out with each other was at a Brian Wilson concert.

Diablo and her husband joke about how poor they were when they lived in Minnesota and that they now laugh at the past about how she got into stripping. Cody lived in Robbinsdale, Minnesota for nearly four years before heading out to Cal-i-for-ni-a.

Diablo got headlines because of her past and she pretty much admits that being a stripper drew a lot of media interest. Cody did not really have an interest in stripping until she noticed an ad from a club looking for amateur dancers for their amateur night. She knew that the money could be good and they needed they money so she gave it a try and ended up really enjoying the work and the people she met. I must say that now I wish I would have seen Mrs. Cody dance. She is very attractive and very smart and you do not see that in strippers much well not in Mankato that is.

Diablo went on to write for City Pages (Twin Cities Publication), Jane Magazine, and the Village Voice after Candy Girl. Her writing drew so much interest from people that she was asked to a write a script for a movie, which some say she was reluctent but in the end she agreed and in the end she wrote a screenplay about a pregnant teenager named Juno.

Juno opened in Limited-Release on December 5th, and supposedly world wide on December 14th but for whatever reason you can only see it at very few theaters. I think the film looks really entertaining and other then the fact that Cody wrote the screenplay I want to see the movie because of Superbad's Michael Cera. I think Cera is going to end up being a huge star in the movies and I hope I am right. Juno also has a few other stars such as Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janey, and Ellen Page as Juno. The movie also has the very good Rainn Wilson from the televison show The Office.

Diablo was named recently Breakthrough Screenwriter at the Hollywood Film Festival and also the script she penned went runner-up at the renoun Toronto Film Festival. She was offered to write a script for a possible series on Showtime amongst other offers, she also has a new movie in the works starring soon to be Mrs. Brian Austin Green (Megan Fox) of Transformers.

So Ms. Cody all in all is a busy woman these days! And I am hoping she will be busier after the looming Screenwriters Guild strike ends.

I am going to try and catch Juno one way or another soon and I think I am going to try and read Candy Girl sometime soon as I think her work could be very entertaining. I also think you should try also and give it a chance if you have a sense of humor.