While promoting her new movie, ‘Young Adult’, Oscar-winner Diablo Cody opened up about one of her next projects: bringing the beloved YA series “Sweet Valley High” to the big screen.

“I want it to be wonderfully nostalgic,” Cody told Indiewire. “I want it to be to the ’80s what ‘American Graffiti’ was to the [early] ’60s. I want it to be looking back on a really cool time and enjoying yourself and I want it to be glamorous and colorful and bubblegum and a feast for the senses. That’s my plan.”

With its first release in 1983, the series, which was overseen by Francine Pascal and written by ghostwriters, published over 150 books, including an adulthood follow up this year. It produced a TV show, which ran from 1994-97, but never a feature film. Cody, however, is uniquely positioned to pen a winning adaptation.

I can’t wait to see ‘Young Adult’, I think it looks great. (Watch the trailer here) If anyone should turn ‘Sweet Valley High’ into a movie, it’s Cody. She’s incredibly talented!

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Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody has secretly married and is expecting a baby, she confirmed today on her Twitter.

Thanks for the congrats on my fetus! No secrets here; just thought it would be fun to see how big I could get before someone noticed.

The 31 year old, who won an Academy Award for writing 2007 movie Juno, is said to have quietly tied the knot with her boyfriend, who has not been named, and is preparing to welcome the couple’s first child!

Congrats!

Diablo is currently writing the totally bad-ass-awesomist-show-ever, The United States of Tara on Showtime.  If you’re not watching it – you should be! That show is freaking unbelievable!

What do you think of her dress? Are you going to see “Jennifer’s Body”?

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Lots of celebs!  Everyone looks great!

Pictured:  Diane Lane & Josh Brolin, Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiance, Maria Bello, Amy Adams, Jaime King, Marisa Tomei, Camilla Belle, Robert Pattinson & Diablo Cody.

A writer claiming to have penned a sequel to Juno is selling the script on auction website eBay.com for $100,001. In the seller’s note online, the mystery screenwriter insists the script is available to any legitimate production company which “wants to jump on the bandwagon”.

The low-budget Oscar-nominated film, written by former stripper Diablo Cody, has grossed over $130 million in America alone, but no one seems to be interested in the sequel – no bids have been received for the script. The item is up for grabs until March 5th. The winning bidder is promised “a hard copy (of the script), an electronic PDF file and a copy on CD”. The seller, based in Hawaii, adds, “The screenplay is copyrighted and registered with the WGA.”

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Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter, Diablo Cody, who didn’t make a secret out of her past including the time she worked as a Chicago stripper, has become the focus of a scandal involving a bunch of personal photos which show her “topless” at most

In a recent entry on her MySpace blog, Diablo said she doesn’t really care that people are publishing the old pictures again since she’s the one who put them online in the first place.

“Hey! Did you guys hear about the ‘nude’ (except not really) pics I voluntarily posted on the Internet myself? What a tantalizing ‘scoop!’ Seriously, I thought nudity was only a scandal if it the photos were leaked by some crumb-bum rat or vengeful ex. I personally put my vag out there with pride, ladies and gents. And you bet your ass I’d do it again if the Beef Council would cough up the proper endorsement money. Beeyotches are lucky I don’t get naked now. I’m built for comfort these days. However, tempt me long enough and I just might drop ‘em…,”

Diablo wrote in her entry, titled “Viva Trash.”

In the undated photos, Cody is shown topless in a couple of them, while dancing on a stripper pole and also wearing what appears to be a “bra” of something that looks like shaving cream or whipped cream.

“As I’ve said in the past, they can dress me up, they can give me awards, they can coach me on the right responses, and they can sand the callouses off my giant feet, but I will always be me. And I will never be ashamed. No secrets, ever. (Well, hardly any.) Just like I promised,” the post added.

Sunday night, the 29-year-old, who used her 1-year experience as a stripper to write a book called “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, took home the Oscar for best screenwriting for “Juno,” a coming of age story about a pregnant teenager.

Most recently, she made headlines for refusing to wear $1 million diamond-encrusted Stuart Weitzman heels, calling it a “cheesy publicity stunt.”

“They’re using me to publicize their stupid shoes and NOBODY ASKED ME,” she wrote on her blog. “I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.”