A for Emma!
I spent last weekend in Cancun with one of my favorite people in the whole wide world Emma Stone. We were there doing international press for her new movie Easy A, which I incindentally CANNOT WAIT for! It’s a little bit Ferris Bueller, a little bit Mean Girls with a whole lot of The Scarlet Letter thrown in for good measure. I have to say that what makes this movie so exciting is that for the most part it pays long over due homage to the kind of insanely good teen angst films that I grew up adoring by directors like Cameron Crow and John Hughes.
As usual, our little family of girls laughed continiously, ate way too much junk food, played dress up and spent a friggin’ ransom at the Duty Free shop on the most bizarre items. I must say this little gaggle of candy/beauty junkies descending on that poor shop must have been a truly frightening sight! I’ll just say that there was a jumbo size Mentos container in somebody’s basket and leave it at that. You know who you are. 
On Saturday night we attended the “Burlesque” theme party for Christina Aguilera’s new movie with Cher, yes Cher is in it! We had some fun playing around in the dressing rooms they set up. We also ran into my friend Steve Sollitto, Christina’s make up artist who was sweet enough to introduce us to her. It was awesome.
I’ve been working with Emma since Superbad in 2007 and seriously could not adore her more. To see her come into her own in her first leading role has me coming out of my skin with joy. Her character, Olive Pendergast, I have no doubt will become as relevant a teen icon to her generation as Alecia Silverstone’s Cher in Clueless was in the ’90s or Molly Ringwald’s Samantha Baker was in Sixteen Candles in the ’80s.
Olive speaks the language of a whole new crop of kids to whom texting and iPhones are just the everyday norm, and the role that internet gossip plays here is surely as significant as the mixed tape in the boombox was to Say Anything.
Easy A doesn’t come out until mid Sept but until then let me introduce you to Miss Olive Penderghast. Oh Olive we’ve needed a girl like you!
