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His name was Ralph. The penis, that is. The young man that Ralph was attached to was named Michael, not that I or anyone else would remember that decades later. Poor Michael! He seemed nice. Attentive and loving, in a slightly anodyne kind of way. But Ralph? Ralph had a mind of his own. A personality. Ralph was hard to forget. The novel in which Ralph appears, Judy Blume’s Forever …, turns 50…

While cutting together scenes for the new series “Forever,” Mara Brock Akil, who has created shows like “Girlfriends,” “Being Mary Jane,” and “The Game,” recalls asking her video editor to pause for a moment. Was there a problem? No. Akil was watching someone very right: the show’s female lead, Lovie Simone. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, not only is this girl beautiful, she’s acting her (expletive)…

Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Getting Movie at Lionsgate

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Lionsgate is developing a movie based on Judy Blume’s novel “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” with “The Edge of Seventeen” director Kelly Fremon Craig helming from her own script.

The company announced Monday that it bought the novel’s film rights and plans the movie to be “event moviegoing for women of all ages.” James L. Brooks, who teamed with…

By Andrew Blumetti

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