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We've Got Exclusive Artwork From Larry Doyle's New Paperback Of I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER!
Beaks here...
In anticipation of the July 10th, 2009 release of Chris Columbus's high school comedy I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER, we've got an exclusive excerpt from the new paperback version of Larry Doyle's Thurber Prize-winning novel - about a nerdy high school valedictorian's wild night out with the girl of his dreams - on which the film is based!
You might've noticed that other sites have been debuting artwork from Doyle's tome today. That's cool. I haven't had the chance to look around, but I am very pleased with the two Evan Dorkin-illustrated panes that were selected for AICN's discriminating readers. Enjoy.
Like you haven't had that conversation fifty times before.
This version of the book will be available for purchase on June 9th, and it's well worth picking up if you haven't read it. If you're not familiar with Doyle's work, he's contributed some hysterical pieces to The New Yorker over the last few years and worked on The Simpsons as a writer/producer for four seasons. He also wrote for BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD, so chances are he's made you laugh very hard at some point in your life. Seriously, give the book a shot. I think you'll dig it.
And hopefully we'll all dig Columbus's movie when it opens next month. The trailer certainly looks promising.
Finally, I've attached Doyle's self-penned bio because it made me laugh.
Larry Doyle is a 1976 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, the setting for I Love You, Beth Cooper. He was not the valedictorian like the book’s protagonist, ranking only 13th out of 500, although several of the students above him took pretty easy classes. The novel won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor, and Doyle also wrote the film adaptation. Starring Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust, the film opens on July 10, 2009 from Fox.
Doyle has wandered through a checkered writing career that has seen him reporting on the early AIDS epidemic and the Challenger explosion, doing comic strips and editing magazines, writing for the best television show of all time and winning two Emmy Awards for it (THE SIMPSONS), and scripting extremely expensive movies that lose gobs of money.
He currently makes his living writing screenplays and writes for magazines whenever he can afford it. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and in the past, has contributed to Esquire, GQ, and was the editor of Spy.
Doyle lives outside Baltimore with his wife Becky, their three children and one dog, until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife. The wife’s sister is married to Campbell McGrath, the famous poet who won a MacArthur Super Genius Grant, and once hit his brother-in-law in the face with an oar and then wrote a poem about it.
Like you haven't had that conversation fifty times before.
This version of the book will be available for purchase on June 9th, and it's well worth picking up if you haven't read it. If you're not familiar with Doyle's work, he's contributed some hysterical pieces to The New Yorker over the last few years and worked on The Simpsons as a writer/producer for four seasons. He also wrote for BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD, so chances are he's made you laugh very hard at some point in your life. Seriously, give the book a shot. I think you'll dig it.
And hopefully we'll all dig Columbus's movie when it opens next month. The trailer certainly looks promising.
Finally, I've attached Doyle's self-penned bio because it made me laugh.
Larry Doyle is a 1976 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, the setting for I Love You, Beth Cooper. He was not the valedictorian like the book’s protagonist, ranking only 13th out of 500, although several of the students above him took pretty easy classes. The novel won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor, and Doyle also wrote the film adaptation. Starring Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust, the film opens on July 10, 2009 from Fox.
Doyle has wandered through a checkered writing career that has seen him reporting on the early AIDS epidemic and the Challenger explosion, doing comic strips and editing magazines, writing for the best television show of all time and winning two Emmy Awards for it (THE SIMPSONS), and scripting extremely expensive movies that lose gobs of money.
He currently makes his living writing screenplays and writes for magazines whenever he can afford it. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and in the past, has contributed to Esquire, GQ, and was the editor of Spy.
Doyle lives outside Baltimore with his wife Becky, their three children and one dog, until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife. The wife’s sister is married to Campbell McGrath, the famous poet who won a MacArthur Super Genius Grant, and once hit his brother-in-law in the face with an oar and then wrote a poem about it.
Doyle has wandered through a checkered writing career that has seen him reporting on the early AIDS epidemic and the Challenger explosion, doing comic strips and editing magazines, writing for the best television show of all time and winning two Emmy Awards for it (THE SIMPSONS), and scripting extremely expensive movies that lose gobs of money.
He currently makes his living writing screenplays and writes for magazines whenever he can afford it. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and in the past, has contributed to Esquire, GQ, and was the editor of Spy.
Doyle lives outside Baltimore with his wife Becky, their three children and one dog, until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife. The wife’s sister is married to Campbell McGrath, the famous poet who won a MacArthur Super Genius Grant, and once hit his brother-in-law in the face with an oar and then wrote a poem about it.
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But those were all pretty fun movies, Columbus was on a roll there for quite a while..
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I really, really can't say that the trailer looks promising at all....
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...but it sure smells good!
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We Are Amused.
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I'd give it a shot.
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looks like he's in his 30s.
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The book was great, but the movie seems to be every bit the terrible movie that the book was trying to be the good version of. I bet Columbus didn't even take the time to read it.
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not sure what that trailer is supposed to be.
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Explaining the lightsaber to the jock . . . no one would do that. You can't go for a "charming real world" comedy and throw in Monty Python beats. (Unless he was trying to by the girl time, then I will stand corrected.)
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And the main character looks like he's 33, not 17/18. And I'm pretty sure he's that douche at the MTV Movie Awards that humped his golden popcorn and continuously yelled out for everyone to suck his dick.
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I couldn't even keep watching the trailer past the point of "NOW THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS WILL SHOW HIM THE NITE OF HIS LIFE!!!" What shit! You are truly an idiot, beaks!
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Check out his solo work, if you haven't.
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...better than the first trailer. But still pretty bad.
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...until the 20th century fox logo showed up.
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You know you've got a problem when Cameron, in a beard, doesn't look much older than the "kid" playing his son.
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Matt & Trey treatment needed:
"And this 30-year-old's about to find out . . . derpa, derpa, derrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Rated PG-13. -
Evan Dorkin IS a god among men. In the cartooning world, at least. MERV GRIFFIN!!!
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This movie looks so cliche and so lame. Ug. I used to have respect for Hayden. But, hey, I guess she needs to eat too.
And where did this art come from?? The book isn't a graphic novel, so how come the art? -
Land of the Lost and Year One combined.
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Paul Rust is one funny motherfucker. I've seen him at the UCB on multiple occasions, and he does some incredibly insane stuff on stage. That said, I doubt they're using him to his full potential here. And yes, he does look 30.
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takes talent and chains it.
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This should be the greatest movie to hit the big screen since Transformers
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the trailer looks incredibly mediocre.
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This looks dumb.
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KURT WIMMER IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE REMAKE OF TOTAL RECALL...
i repeat
KURT WIMMER IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE REMAKE OF TOTAL RECALL...
I think i reached a new level of being. I really, seriously, very deeply don't care anymore what the fuckers churn out of their movie factory. Whenever a good one slips through the studio gauntlet i will cherish it and like it for what it is - but i will no longer give a fuck. Come on, Hollywood! Remake Back to the Future next! Remake the Star Wars prequels! Remake the remake of the Thing! Remake Legally Blond 2 or whatever else shit there ist... I don't care anymore, you guys lost me... -
Monopoly (Ridley Scott), Clue (Gore Verbinski), Battleship (Peter Berg), Candyland (Kevin Lima), Ouija (Michael Bay)
This is not a joke. -
Of the Midas Touch... Everything he touches turns to utter and complete crap. Seriously, he's the fucking worst - fun premise, shit execution. Starting with the extremely unfunny 35 year-old in the lead role.
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It seems just as self-aware bad as Yo Teach!
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All is forgiven! well maybe not all, but you should try directing again!
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Maybe the whole trailer is a flashback and the Cthulhu zombies (?) attack right after she drops the towel. Someone go see it and report back. Lol! Wooo!
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That's even worse. Though I have to agree with the young woman at the end: Sexual etiquette demands that after a FFM, you give equal attention to both skanks.
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The Foot Fist Way. Yeah, I said it. Overrated.
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its true
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if they gave it a "Last American Virgin" style ending? They go through all this crap together, and the hot chick dumps the protagonist and goes back to her old boyfriend. I'd like to see that.
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... would be Amanda Wyss in Better Off Dead. Just saying. Hot.
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Jun 03, 2009 7:14:44 PM CDT
Life doesn't work like it does in that Beth Cooper movie.
by orionsangels
You say you love a girl while speaking at your graduation. Everyone laughs at you. The girl thinks you're gross. You go home and cry and life goes on.
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Seriously, where were these girls when I went to high school? Apparently these girls have nothing better to do than to hang out with those two dorks? Oh if only real life were like that, but it's not. Who are the makers of this film trying to kid?
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Some are more nerdy than the guys. I thought I'd never see the day where hot women would even bother looking at a comic book.
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I got nothin...
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Sex Drive, Observe and Report, Miss March, Zach and Miri make a porno, Monsters vs. Aliens, Blades of Glory, Madtv, Juno
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And to prove Love is blind, I'm totally going to forgive you for being in this movie...
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..is that I actually have a friend who likes a girl called Beth Cooper. And this guy lives with Beth's brother. And Beth and her brother look alarmingly alike. Yes,..yes its awkward...
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So, let me ask- is your Beth manly or is her brother a Wachowski if ya know what I mean?
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The trailer is awful. The actors engender hate. I miss Ferris.
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Damn straight. Ferris and the like back then, you didn't see EVERY plot point a mile away. This movie was dated after the first draft. Ferris (as the example) you still pick up on things. Damn, watched Wargames the other day, that still holds up very well. Fucking recylced shit is what we get so often these days.
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Music is the same way, turn to most any station (not that I listen to radio) and every song is a carbon copy just about. And people keep buying it. I mean fine, but I just don't get it. but I'm an asshole. Humbug!
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The book might be a laugh riot, but the trailer was liquid shit.
The CGIed killer raccoon, the toaster oven (?) getting lodged into the wall, the faggy screaming of the protagonist. This shit's supposed to be funny?
And don't even goddamn get me started on what looks to be one of my new pet peeves: the object of the protagonist's desire dating a psycho asshole. None of the films I've seen (including WEDDING CRASHERS, AVP: REQUIEM and NEVER BACK DOWN) satisfactorily explains why she'd be with such a dangerous character; she just *is*.
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Was it supposed to be?
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....I said NO and saved myself from witnessing a cliche' of 80's revival humor from a bland teen-sex-comedy....
Now, I'm dating a supermodel, I drive a spaceship to places, and I eat food made from the future.
Who said trusting your gut instinct was a waste of time.
Thanks for watching.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS KURT RUSSELL!?!?"
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MST3K after TV's Frank left.
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Made me laugh.
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creenplays and writes for magazines whenever he can afford it."
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I feel your pain. Radio is dead.
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Do you remember rock 'n' roll radio? Damn, time to dust off some Ramones!
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This looks lame. I loved WIERD SCIENCE - Where's the modern day version of that????
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Baby's Day Out. Okay, I admit, I never saw it, so it could be GOLD!
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Riiiiiiight. He didn't expect the psycho boyfriend to go nuts and come after him. No, not after calling him out on being a psycho boyfriend during his graduation speech. Nah uh. Totally unexpected.
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Huh?
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Sort of. Not the Star Wars part, but I did once hang out with a weird kid called Wayne.
I believe his invitation was something like "Wanna play cockfights?" After explaining what it was, he denied it was gay, saying "Me & Stevie Johnson do it all the time & we're not gay. We go to Karate."
Hence I hung out with him "once." -
a little from column A, a little from column B...
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THAT's the movie that must be made!
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I hate it when that happens.
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...with all the remakes, why isn't anybody making a QUANTUM LEAP movie? Everybody in the world loves the SHIT out of Dr. Sam Beckett and his wacky sex-crazed hologram pal.
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I loved the book, so I will give this a shot, but to be really faithful to the book the movie has to be "R", which by the looks of the trailers, it won't be
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Have you seen those pictures of Hayden over on WWTDD? I mean, she has a package, and I don't mean a present. Unless your into that I guess. Then it's christmas every day!
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Is there an easier joke than the "OMG NERDS WHO LIKE STAR WARS" gimmick these days?
Enough is enough, really. People talking about Star Wars is no longer funny.. the prequels sucked, the clone wars cartoon movie sucked, it's over. -
The game goes for "STAR WARS BUT GAY!" jokes. Least funny shit ever.
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most of the time TBs have pretty much a balance between hatred and love for something, but this one is truly universally negative. nobody thinks this looks like anything else but a huge piece of shit. just goes to show what an out of touch, humorless imbecile beaks is. looks promising... pfff
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It wasn't crystal clear in the domestic trailer that Beth was dating the psycho asshole, but now it is.
Seriously, fuck this movie. -
GIANT PIG!!!
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Wow this site is great (www.iloveyoubethcoopermovie.com). If you haven’t heard of I Love You Beth Cooper yet you need to take a look at the trailer. The movie is all about revealing a crush that a nerd in high school has on a girl who happens to be the hottest girl in his class. But that’s not all; he does it during his graduation ceremony! I can’t wait to see it, but their promo is also great promo. If you go to the official website, you can upload a video to reveal your secret! At first I had no intent of making my own video, but after all of the laughs I got from the one’s I watched, I had to! I also read about a competition for the videos, if your selected you get your video broadcasted on national television!
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