Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/18/judy-blumes-are-you-there.html
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Holy fucksocks, getting older sucks.
That said, this is a good thing.
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We can hope that she lives as long as Beverly Cleary…
(102 and still going)
edited to add:
Since the alternative is dying young, I’ll have to disagree.
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Holy fucksocks, again;
I had no idea Beverly Cleary was still alive; good for her!
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Didn’t Fudge et al. become a TV movie or some sort of series? (Certainly not the least bit memorable either way, it seems.)
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Is it weird that I read these as a child? I’m a cis-white male and just wanted to understand what was going on with the girls. I remember not being able to visualize any of the contraptions she had to endure, and asking my Mom about them but she just said they didn’t use those anymore. I felt pretty lucky to be a boy at the time.
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What I’m going to need is a great 12-year-old actress to play Margaret.”
I hope that works because that can really make or break a movie.
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Beats dying.
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That’s what they always say, anyway; but I’ve never heard the dead’s side of the story…
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If you do, give me a heads-up, please.
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Next time I’m invited to dance ‘the Macabray,’ I’ll try to remember…
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Judy Blume’s demystification of these subjects made adolescence bearable for so many Gen-Xers in a way it hadn’t been previously.
So which of my books, kids and/or adult would you want to see adapted for series or movie?
If I had to choose, I’d suggest “Blubber” and “Then Again, Maybe I Won’t.” “Iggie’s House” was also good.
Blume has consistently refused to allow her books to become movies.
For some reason I recall a movie or TV series based on “Fudge”.
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Somehow, I think I’ll survive.
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I’m so confused. I saw Tiger Eyes in an empty theater in 2012. It was not a dream. Or a good movie. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1748260/
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Nah, Blume had appeal. Somehow I never got around to this one specifically, but I definitely read Blubber and Freckle Juice, and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its sequels were universally appealing. (Perhaps I would have picked up Forever if I ever happened to see it on a shelf.) In that vein I also picked up a fair bit of Paula Danziger, Ellen Conford, Betsy Byars, and a little Caroline B. Cooney.
It struck me at the time how much of this fiction seemed to be dreary in tone.
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Ah! Thank you.
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That’s Kelly Fremon Craig, fwiw. Not being familiar with The Edge of Seventeen, and taking “Fremon” to be a rather male sounding first name, it seemed odd that Judy Blume’s resistance to filmmaking would be overcome by a couple of dudes’ overtures. But… not the case.
