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...author Sophie Kinsella is one of the reigning stars in chick-lit, the popular wish-fulfillment novels now being written and marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
...sisters is a lawyer in the city, and also a very close friend of ours is big-shot partner at one of the London law firms. I got inklings of their lives just from knowing them through all these years. It seemed like the perfect job [for Samantha]. When I first heard about time sheets from this friend and my sister, I was just so gobsmacked. I thought, you have to do what!?! I thought they were joking. They have to write down everything they?re doing in six-minute segments. Basically, their time is not their own. They have...
...almost tackled you,? she says, pouring a glass of ice water in the granite-countered kitchen. Her five-year-old twins, Trevor and Samantha, play on the floor of the room across the hall, while her husband finishes a phone conversation in the living room. The house is open and clean, decorated with Oriental carpets and contemporary art. She apologizes. One resourceful reporter for the British Sunday Telegraph recently tracked down their address and arrived unannounced, and she's still angry. ?British journalists,? mutters Joseph Wilson as he enters the room. Plame pours him a soda water and cranberry juice...
That anyone would decide to remake Lassie is in itself not so odd. Far worse properties have been rehashed, and at least director Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited, Shackleton) will be classing up the old dog a bit, not only by casting O'Toole, Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage in major roles but also by taking the story back to its pre--Timmy's-trapped-in-a-well roots. "I never saw the TV show, and I can't recall any of the films," says Sturridge, who hopes to have his movie ready for a Christmas release. "But the original novel...
Much the same could be said of Nora Ephron's movie. It has a good premise: down-on-his-luck movie actor Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) agrees to do a remake of the old TV show (1964-72) but casts an unknown to play Samantha so he, playing her husband Darrin, can dominate the program. The role goes to Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), who really is a witch, although she's trying to break the habit. But you can't make a laff riot out of what is essentially a straight man's role, and Jack bombs. Even the family...