Do you know a Candy girl?
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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/07/26/books.diablo.cody.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Office drone by day, stripper by night
Diablo Cody reveals all in 'Candy Girl'
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- Catholic girl. Office drone. Self-described dork.
Nothing in Diablo Cody's background seems to explain why she decided to take her clothes off in front of paying strangers.
She had never so much as entered a bikini or a wet T-shirt contest when she saw a downtown topless bar advertising amateur night, as she trudged home one evening from her copy typist job.
Cody soon returned and, ignoring the bouncer's laughter, gave it a try.
"I just thought I have to do it. I really don't know what got into me. I just thought it sounded like fun. And I'd really hit the wall of boredom," she recalls.
She quickly found out she was the only amateur competing, but despite losing -- "I was definitely the worst stripper there" -- Cody kept stripping for the next year and turned her adventures into a sharp and funny memoir, "Candy Girl," subtitled "A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper."
After a rollicking appearance on "Late Show With David Letterman" -- where he named "Candy Girl" the first pick of "Dave's Book Club" -- Cody awaits the start of production this fall on her movie script, "Juno." Brad Silberling ("Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events," "Moonlight Mile") is slated to direct.
Cody, who just turned 28, also is planning another memoir -- this time, about everything that's happened to her in the past year.
"It was like being shot out of a cannon," she says, looking punk with her tongue stud, black fingernails, skull-and-crossbones head scarf and upper-arm tattoo of a bikini-clad miss emblazoned with the words "JONNY'S GIRL" -- Jonny being her husband.
Talking about sex has never been a problem for Cody, a longtime blogger who grew up the younger of two children in a boisterous Italian family in Lemont, Illinois, near Chicago, and attended Catholic school for 12 years. (Brook Busey-Hunt is her real name. She chose Diablo Cody for its cool, androgynous sound while visiting Cody, Wyoming. As a stripper, though, she used names such as "Bonbon" and "Roxanne.")
"For some reason, I've always just had total verbal diarrhea when it comes to sexual issues. I've been making people's jaws drop with frank sexual talk since I was about 10 years old," she says.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/07/26/books.diablo.cody.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Office drone by day, stripper by night
Diablo Cody reveals all in 'Candy Girl'
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- Catholic girl. Office drone. Self-described dork.
Nothing in Diablo Cody's background seems to explain why she decided to take her clothes off in front of paying strangers.
She had never so much as entered a bikini or a wet T-shirt contest when she saw a downtown topless bar advertising amateur night, as she trudged home one evening from her copy typist job.
Cody soon returned and, ignoring the bouncer's laughter, gave it a try.
"I just thought I have to do it. I really don't know what got into me. I just thought it sounded like fun. And I'd really hit the wall of boredom," she recalls.
She quickly found out she was the only amateur competing, but despite losing -- "I was definitely the worst stripper there" -- Cody kept stripping for the next year and turned her adventures into a sharp and funny memoir, "Candy Girl," subtitled "A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper."
After a rollicking appearance on "Late Show With David Letterman" -- where he named "Candy Girl" the first pick of "Dave's Book Club" -- Cody awaits the start of production this fall on her movie script, "Juno." Brad Silberling ("Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events," "Moonlight Mile") is slated to direct.
Cody, who just turned 28, also is planning another memoir -- this time, about everything that's happened to her in the past year.
"It was like being shot out of a cannon," she says, looking punk with her tongue stud, black fingernails, skull-and-crossbones head scarf and upper-arm tattoo of a bikini-clad miss emblazoned with the words "JONNY'S GIRL" -- Jonny being her husband.
Talking about sex has never been a problem for Cody, a longtime blogger who grew up the younger of two children in a boisterous Italian family in Lemont, Illinois, near Chicago, and attended Catholic school for 12 years. (Brook Busey-Hunt is her real name. She chose Diablo Cody for its cool, androgynous sound while visiting Cody, Wyoming. As a stripper, though, she used names such as "Bonbon" and "Roxanne.")
"For some reason, I've always just had total verbal diarrhea when it comes to sexual issues. I've been making people's jaws drop with frank sexual talk since I was about 10 years old," she says.
