101 Pop Culture Signs O’ The Apocalypse #Cha-ching!/Diablo Cody’s SWEET VALLEY HIGH
...get yo' minds out the gutter, these are good girls...unfortunately.
from USA TODAYs POP CANDY blog:
- Diablo Cody is in talks to adapt the Sweet Valley High books for the big screen.
The books centred on the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in the fictional town of Sweet Valley, California, and attend the local high school. More than 150 titles were published featuring Jessica, the more flighty of the sisters, and Elizabeth, the practical one, who usually had to save the day when one of her sibling’s fanciful schemes went awry.
Cody is said to have grown up reading the books, which were conceived by Francine Pascal in 1983 and written by an army of ghostwriters over the next two decades. While wildly popular, the books have been criticised for their unrealistic treatment of teenage girls’ lives. Not only were both twins faultlessly beautiful, but Jessica suffered the deaths of five boyfriends over the course of the series, while Elizabeth fell in love with a Parisian prince and an English viscount.
First thought: “Wow, those books sound like some old chick’s vicarious I-wish-I-was-a-horny-teen-aged wet-dreamed up, sh*t.”
JUNO, THE UNITED STATES OF TARA, JENNIFER’S BODY and SWEET VALLEY HIGH? What? No big screen treatment of JEM (She’s truly outrageous?)
This reeks of cash grab. However, I can’t hate on el Diablo for getting paid to make that hot garbage into a movie. We all have our childhood pop-culture loves and if some dumb Hollywood fool was going to throw me a boatload of cash to make one of mine a movie, you got damn right I’m making GENE, GENE THE DANCING MACHINE: THE MOVIE!
I remember the SWEET VALLEY HIGH TV show from the early 90s. Actually, all I really remember is that the twins (left) were hot and now, I realize that was my first Dirty Old Judge Joe Brown (below)
You go, Joe!
moment. Anyway, one of the twins was sluttier (is that a word?) than the other, is there any other way to be?
Much, much sluttier…
Oh, look, stripper pols and role-playing, too?
And currently, in what has to be David Duke’s worst nightmare, The bad twin is currently getting busy with the creator of that other early 90s hit show, IN LIVING COLOR
Cast her as the mom of somebody in the movie, TODAY. And Diablo Cody is going to be involved in a big screen version of this?
I’ve just convinced myself that this might wind up being the greatest movie of all time.
T. Troy Stewart
Big Ty
your entire stream of conscience in this post screams intervention. You can not convince me that you intended on camping out to get tickets to this movie. You just cant
this could actually work if they do it in the style of the brady bunch movies.
i too also remember sweet valley high from the “TNBC” saturday morning line-up. oh yes. i remember it well. (i believe it was on before the excellent Reggie Theius (sp?) vehicle, “Hang Time.”