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Is Ricki and the Flash based on a true story?

ByStarcasm Staff

Meryl Streep’s new character Ricki Rendazzo is a feisty rock-n-roll diva who’s struggling with her choice to leave her family in order to pursue her music dreams. While her story is not exactly adapted from true life, she does have a real life inspiration: the mother-in-law of the film’s writer, Diablo Cody. “Terry is a…

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Writer-director Diablo Cody speaks out about the stigma of working while pregnant

ByStarcasm Staff

Screenwriter and now-director Diablo Cody is speaking out about the stigma of women working while pregnant.

“Nobody would ever care if a male CEO was expecting a child–or frankly if a male director was expecting a child. I’ve worked with a lot of directors who had babies on the way or had them at home, and nobody ever said, ‘What are you doing here on set?'”