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Bobbie Faye

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Before The Valet last night, Darin and I popped into the nearby Barnes and Noble, where we found Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very, very) Bad Day prominently displayed on the New Paperbacks table!

Of course, did I have my camera with me, like I promised Toni I would? I did not.

But I bought my copy! And I was deeply gratified to see that the quote from “Diane Patterson” remained intact in the text. Your job: go buy this book (it is freakin’ hilarious) and find that quote!

Bobbie Faye is about a woman named Bobbie Faye (natch) who gets caught up with organized crime, bank robbery, the FBI, voodoo priestesses, and alligators, and for a woman who’s known far and wide for being a walking disaster, even this day rates as pretty damn bad.

The Valet: the review

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As Darin and I walked out of the theater, I said, “Were you doing the same thing I was doing? Working out the changes for the American version?”

“Doing that probably made it a lot more fun to watch.”

We spent dinner discussing our rewrite.

While The Valet has gotten really excellent reviews, it’s not that great a movie. It’s very straightforward — there are absolutely no wasted bits in the movie. But it’s intensely superficial and obvious and the jokes weren’t all that good. So I’d have to say: Pass.