Juno (film)
Diablo Cody was first approached to write a screenplay by film producer Mason Novick, who had previously landed her a book deal for her memoir, "", after discovering her blog about stripping. He persuaded her to adapt the book for the screen, but suggested that she first write a screenwriting sample to show studios; that sample became "Juno". After deciding on an adoption storyline, Cody collected the stories of adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents, including that of her then-husband, an adoptee who reunited with his birth parents after she wrote the film. She also found inspiration in the story of a close friend who had become pregnant in high school and used some details from her friend's experience in the film, such as mistreatment from an ultrasound technician. Much of "Juno", however, was based on Cody's own high school experiences: She dated a tic-tac-loving boy similar to Paulie, she was best friends with a cheerleader like Leah, and she used a hamburger phone identical to the one that appears in the film. After writing the screenplay over seven weeks in the Starbucks section of a Target store in Crystal, Minnesota, Cody compared writing to breathing, seeing Juno as an extension of herself.
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.