Someone is making one of my all-time fave books,Eat Pray Love, (for those of you who habla espanol: Comer Rezar Amor), into a movie starring Julia Roberts, and I want to talk about it. I’m simultaneously excited and freaked out, because it gave me flashbacks to The DaVinci Code Fiasco of turning a very successful book into a movie starring someone who is distractingly famous. It’s not like Robert Langdon experienced the kind of extreme emotional changes and personal struggles and victories that Liz went through – though Symbology is exciting as well.

 I feel like Julia Roberts is WAY too graceful to play the awkward and anxious Liz Gilbert during her year of pasta-eating self-discovery.  

My BFF Jenna gave me this book for my birthday a few years ago, before the hype and just before I was go to backpacking in Europe by myself and then moving to New York City. It was perfect for where I was at emotionally, and all nine times I’ve read it since then I’ve been in different places geographically, emotionally, mentally, socio-economically, etc. and it seems new each time.


Let’s play a little game I like to call Casting Director. 

I think that Toni Collette would be an awesome Liz.

But what’s even more amazing, is that they’ve cast Javier Bardem as Felipe, her brazilian lover-turned-husband that she now lives with in Elizabeth, New Jersey.  Other huge names in it are Billy Crudup as her ex-husband and James Franco as her angsty, skinny-jeans wearing post-divorce rebound.

What? Of course I’m going to see it, because I’m curious about how they’re going to show all of the feelings slash emotions that lace the pages of EPL (for you texters out there, that’s the code to use when hollering “hey fellas, let’s see EPL after the game! ttyl” – something like that.) I just hope it’s not too psychedelic or Rainman-ish. There’s a five person special effects crew, which I hope is there for the “two cool blue souls” part on the rooftop of the ashram in India when she comes to grips with her divorce after reading Richard’s poem, because that was one of my faves.

To be continued in 2011… at about midnight on opening night.