“I also feel like there are a lot of romantic comedies written by men for women:’Annie Hall,”(500) Days of Summer.’ I was interested in exploring that romance impulse men have to idealize women.” “I was a big Greek myth nerd as a kid, and I always liked the story of Pygmalion and Galatea,” Kazan, wrapped in a bathrobe and tucked into a nook behind Krofft’s staircase, said later of her inspiration for the script. The movie, centering on a novelist frustrated personally and professionally, is a meditation on love and control - and the lengths one will go to in the quest for an ideal(ized) mate. The diminutive writer-actress not only plays the antagonist in “Ruby Sparks,” she also penned the film, which Fox Searchlight is bringing to theaters July 25. Sunbathing in a orange-and-white-striped bikini on the brick patio was Dano’s co-star, real-life girlfriend and unlikely puppetmaster of the zaniness: 28-year-old Zoe Kazan. ‘The Real L Word’: A July 15 article about the series “The L Real Word” said that it is Showtime’s top-performing unscripted show it is actually Showtime’s top-performing unscripted show in prime time. Chris Messina, playing Bening’s character’s loyal son, shot water guns in the pool, as Paul Dano, playing the film’s protagonist, sulked in the guesthouse - a rickety structure perched in an adjacent tree. And so amid the controlled chaos of the location, looniness reigned as the camera rolled on a family get-together scene.Ī trim and tan Antonio Banderas, playing the man of the (quirky) house, prepared to cannonball off the roof into the pool, while Annette Bening in a Lauren Hutton-style wig and a paisley printed shirt, cooed over a baby, her purported grandchild. But the vibe of “Ruby Sparks” - the second movie from the directors of the 2006 breakout “Little Miss Sunshine” - spoke to the octogenarian’s penchant for the offbeat and sweetly psychedelic. Pufnstuf” in the 1970s, rarely allows filming on the property. Krofft, who with his brother Marty created “Land of the Lost”and “H.R. Constructed with bricks salvaged from a Catholic schoolhouse and wood from Amish farms in Mexico, the house bursts with flora and fauna and is one of the most unique in Los Angeles. A hippie circus returned to the hills of Laurel Canyon about this time last year as the cast and crew of the surrealist romantic comedy “Ruby Sparks” gathered at Sid Krofft’s infamous retreat.
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