Article about Juno
When she collected(/picked up) the Oscar for the screenplay of Juno, everybody was open-mouthed(/agape): Diablo Cody, 29-year-old, a stripper past and a golden future in the Hollywood industry, made her appearance (/showed up/turned up) on the Academy stage with a short spotted skirt, earrings with skull and a huge tatoo on her right shoulder, representing a woman in bikini.
Even though (/However), nobody better than this girl, who cuts her fringe by herself, represents, today, the American dream.
The first screenplay of her life, written on the tables of a Starbucks Coffee, became the movie of the year: Juno, 130 million takings, won the "Festa di Roma" and then the Oscar.
Taken and adapted from "La Repubblica", 14 March 2008
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Article about Juno
When she received the Oscar for the screenplay of Juno, everybody was open-mouthed(/agape): Diablo Cody, 29-year-old, a former stripper with a golden future in the Hollywood industry, made her appearance on the Academy stage wearing a short spotted skirt, earrings with skull and a huge tattoo on her right shoulder, representing a woman in bikini.
(/However), nobody better than this girl, who cuts her own hair, represents, today, the American dream.
The first screenplay of her life, written on the tables of a Starbucks Coffee house, became the movie of the year: Juno, 130 million takings, won the "Festa di Roma" and then the Oscar.
Taken and adapted from "La Repubblica", 14 March 2008
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