Diablo Cody
After completion of her book, Cody was encouraged by Mason Novick to write her first screenplay. Within months she wrote "Juno", a coming-of-age story about a teenager's unplanned pregnancy. The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera.
Pippo Franco
In the 1970s and 1980s he starred in a large number of Italian comedies, many of them "erotic comedies," such as the 1972 Mariano Laurenti production "Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda", a semi-medieval erotic spoof (a "decamerotic" film), distributed in the US as "Ubalda, all naked and warm", in which Franco starred (with "undeniable comic verve") alongside Edwige Fenech, the Algerian-born last "popular incarnation of the 'sex bombs' so in vogue twenty years earlier." T he success of "Ubalda" was followed by another successful movie with Franco and Edwige, Sergio Martino's "Giovannona Coscialunga disonorata con onore" (1973). Franco again worked with Martino and Fenech in 1980, in "Zucchero, miele e peperoncino", and in 1982, in "Ricchi, ricchissimi... praticamente in mutande", though Franco and Fenech did not share any scenes in these Anthologies. In 1972, he had a part in Billy Wilder's Italian/American comedy "Avanti!", alongside Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. He directed his first movie in 1981, "La gatta da pelare", for which he also wrote the score and the script.