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Cody And Speilberg Sell The United States of Tara To Showcase
We have discovered that Steven and Diablo have landed a Showtime spot for their TV program The United States of Tara. We get the following news from the hallowed halls of the Hollywood Reporter:
Showtime has given a series pickup to “The United States of Tara.” The pay cable channel has greenlighted 12 half-hour episodes (including the pilot) of the single-camera comedy from DreamWorks TV and Steven Spielberg. It’s expected to enter production in Los Angeles in the summer.
“Tara,” written by Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody, stars Toni Collette as a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder. John Corbett co-stars as her husband. Story lines will examine how a dysfunctional family copes with the various identities that might appear on any given day and range in age, temperament and even gender.
This isn’t really movie news, but I figured the team up of these two heavyweights may be of interest to our readers.
A showtime program about a mom with dissociative identity disorder is a show with a myriad of possibilities and angles. It can be humorous one episode and intensely dramatic the next. The main characters ability to change personalities, allows for a blank check every episode““fffrt. I can see this being very, very good, and with the talent they have behind it – I think quality can be assured.
She kinda looks like Uma Thurman in that pic.
i just hate diablo cody. she makes me sick to my stomach. she so fake.
I’m sorry but I’ve got to nitpick. Showtime, not showcase. As for the show, I hope the names behind it don’t cause this to get hyped up, as it will never live up to that.
Sorry, we have showcase in Canada – my mistake.
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)The only thing fake about Diablo Cody is her name. If you had read her blog before some folks from Hollywood convinced her to write a movie you would know she’s not fake.
@Mike, if you know she has a fake ass name then you also know she started a beef with stuart weiztman. over a charity shoe, because she thought it was too much of a celebrity stunt. even though she’d already been measured for them. and then made that decision for press. so you believe whatever you want.