Saturday, August 14, 2010

ONLY WITHOUT THE STEEP DOWNWARD SPIRAL AT THE END: I've thought for a while that Emma Stone could well be the next big young comedy star (following in the recent footsteps of Kirsten Dunst, Lindsay Lohan, and Anne Hathaway), and the trailer for Easy A only solidifies that, especially given that she's surrounded by a pretty stellar cast (Dan Byrd, Cougar Town's secret weapon, as her gay BFF, Amanda Bynes as the bitchy queen bee, Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow as teachers, Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci as her parents) and what appears from the trailer to be a quippy and funny script. I'm certainly interested. (See also our 2004 discussion of "who's the next Julia Roberts?")