Gothamist became acquainted with Kristen Buckley after reading her book, The Parker Grey Show, which is about a New Yorker who is not only a waitress and aspiring musician, but she also decides to negotiate with her friend's kidnappers. When not writing screenplays (the upcoming Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman; she also co-wrote 102 Dalmatians and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) on the Left Coast, Kristen has been working on a memoir......

Last summer, Kristen Buckley, author and Hollywood screenwriter, emailed Gothamist to see if we'd like to read her book, The Parker Grey Show. We enjoyed it so much that we told Kristen as much and started to correspond with her on a regular basis. Seeing how much fun Gothamist has blogging, Kristen is adding another task to her duties of writing books, writing screenplays, and being a mother (and Gothamist thought we were busy): Blogging......

Gothamist has been seeing mentions of Sloane Tanen's clever take on chick lit, Bitter Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens, everywhere lately. The slice-of-urban-life dioramas with chickens at the heroines (herohens?) has been covered in New York, the Times this past weekend, and in a slideshow on Slate. And how can one not fall in love with these chicks and their trials and tribulations when Tanen describes it as, “They’re......

Since it's been fun to cast The Parker Grey Show, Gothamist would like to look at the casting for the upcoming Batman movie that Memento director Christopher Nolan will be directing. The Hollywood Reporter says that these actors are in the running: Jake Gyllenhaal Christian Bale Joshua Jackson Cillian Murphy Henry Cavill Eion Bailey Hugh Dancy Clearly, this Batman is young and hot, but not in the prettiest way possible, and we think Bruce Wayne......

From Chick Lit to Chick Movie
Gothamist and its readers try to cast The Parker Grey Show.
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Gothamist is in the Berkshires, getting our nature on and partaking in small town spirit. Pictures will be up next week, but for now, revisit our week: - Are we losers if we date online? - Johnny Depp, trying to shed the pretty boy image -More and more on metrosexuals - Bad actors or bad accents...or both - Some summer reading: The Parker Grey Show - Jen makes a mix tape - New York's big......

Gothamist Reads The Parker Grey Show
Gothamist takes a much-need break from mindless chick lit for an "anti-it girl" book ....