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There, she studied English and Film, and also got an internship at CineTel Films, an independent film company.
(Written in verse, this novel follows a girl from ages 14 ...)
Written in verse, this novel follows a girl from ages 14 to 18, exploring first crushes, first dances, first kisses, and the many dangers of growing up.
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( The Shoplifters Anonymous meetings that sixteen-year-ol...)
The Shoplifters Anonymous meetings that sixteen-year-old Moe is forced to attend are usually punctuated by the snores of an old man and the whining of the world's unhappiest housewife. Until the day that Tabitha Foster and Elodie Shaw walk in. Tabitha has just about everything she wants: money, friends, popularity, a hot boyfriend who worships her...and clearly a yen for stealing. So does Elodie, who, despite her goodie-two-shoes attitude pretty much has "klepto" written across her forehead in indelible marker. But both of them are nothing compared to Moe, a bad girl with an even worse reputation. Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout-a more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. And yet, when Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, so begins a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing and the reasons that spawn it. Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten Smith tells this story from multiple perspectives with humor and warmth as three very different girls who are supposed to be learning the steps to recovery end up learning the rules of friendship.
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There, she studied English and Film, and also got an internship at CineTel Films, an independent film company.
Most of the scripts seems to follow the girl Power movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s. She recently directed a short film, The Spleenectomy, which starred Anna Faris and was financed and produced by Glamour magazine. Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip lieutenant!, stars Ellen Page and is directed by Drew Barrymore, and she also has American Virgin, starring Jenna Dewan and Rob Schneider, in post-production.
A native of Portuguese Ludlow, Washington, she moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to attend Occidental College.
Initially planning on pursuing poetry and academia as a career, she began working for CineTel reading scripts and writing coverage for them. This led to a full-time job there as a Director of Development in 1995.
lieutenant was there she began pursuing screenwriting in earnest. One of the scripts she happened to read and cover was written by Karen Lutz, an aspiring writer living in Denver, Colorado.
The two women formed a friendship over the phone, and when Lutz came to Los Angeles, they met in person, and began writing their first script on cocktail napkins that night.
That script never sold, but it inspired the women to write together again, and they embarked on a teen comedy called 10 Things I Hate About You, inspired by William Shakespeare"s Taming of the Shrew. Smith got her official start as a screenwriter in 1997 by selling 10 Things I Hate About You as a spec screenplay. Shortly thereafter, the movie was green-lit, starring then-unknowns Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, and it was shot in Tacoma, Washington, near Smith"s hometown.
Costing only $18M to produce, the movie was a surprise hit, grossing $20M in its opening weekend in July 2001, and going on to make over $140M worldwide.
lieutenant also spawned a sequel and a successful Broadway musical, which was a based on Smith and Lutz’s screenplay. Smith also wrote in the game episode.
Smith followed that with Ella Enchanted, starring Anne Hathaway, and She"s the Manitoba, a DreamWorks update of Shakespeare"s Twelfth Night, starring Amanda Bynes. Recently, she co-wrote and executive produced The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, and produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
lieutenant grossed just shy of $50M domestically.
Her latest cr is The Ugly Truth, directed by Legally Blonde collaborator Robert Luketic and starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.” Having published more than 40 poems in various literary magazines in the 1990s, Smith published her first novel-in-verse, The Geography of Girlhood, in 2006. The coming-of-age story of a teenage girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it contains a smattering of the poems Smith wrote and published in her early twenties.
( The Shoplifters Anonymous meetings that sixteen-year-ol...)
(Written in verse, this novel follows a girl from ages 14 ...)