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Summer Guide 2008 - Olivia Thirlby Hates Pot, But Loves the Munchies -- New York Magazine
Summer Guide 2008 - Olivia Thirlby Hates Pot, But Loves the Munchies -- New York Magazine
livia Thirlby is not, in fact, a pothead, no matter how many times she gets cast as one. “I don t know what it is about me that makes people go, ‘Pothead! But I guess there s something believable about it,” says the 21-year-old, who is best known as Ellen Page s best friend in Juno. Since that movie, Thirlby has somehow found herself attached to two stoner comedies: The Wackness (which opens ...
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Killjoy 'Juno' Co-Star Dashes America's Ellen Page-Lesbian-Werewolf Dreams [The Death Of Hope]
Gawker: defamer — ... proving a tougher road to hoe than even her image-shaping, power-lesbian flack/Oscar date may have anticipated months ago. All we can recommend is for the ladies as the Jack and Diane window closes is to keep fighting the good fight; considering Thirlby's admitted luck with pot comedies, the film may be just one super-experimentally drug-dealing-werewolf subplot away from the green light they've so desperately awaited. [Photo: Getty Images] Olivia Thirlby Spurns Pot, Embraces the Munchies [NYM] ...

"I'm so happy I didn't play Juno."
Mostly Movies — ... In news that should upset film bloggers everywhere, Thirlby will not be starring in a "lesbian werewolf" movie called Jack & Diane with Ellen Page. (NY Mag)

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