Author Larry Doyle on stage and screen
Nouveau Baltimorean Larry Doyle will have his novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, spread across the big screen when the movie adaptation opens nationwide Friday. Doyle, who moved to Baltimore four years ago, will also appear tonight in Baltimoored: Summer in the City, A Live Radio Show. Today in The Baltimore Sun, Michael Sragow profiled Doyle. An excerpt:
Larry Doyle's wife says he's funny only when he's talking to someone other than herself.
Luckily, he should be talking to hundreds of theatergoers at Center Stage Thursday for Stoop Storytelling, the popular stage series featuring Baltimoreans relating their own tales of Charm City.
Doyle, author of the Thurber Prize-winning novel I Love You, Beth Cooper [shown here accepting the award]... has also written the screenplay and served as an executive producer for the movie version of his novel, which opens nationwide Friday; the director is Chris Columbus, who made the first two Harry Potter pictures.
It should be a heady time even for a 50-year-old, formerly L.A.-based veteran who has won two Emmy awards and one Annie for his work on The Simpsons.
But over the phone from a hotel lobby in Tribeca (he planned to attend a "special screening" of Beth Cooper in New York Tuesday night), he remained refreshingly down-to-earth and dry. "That's Vincent D'Onofrio walking by," he interrupts himself to say, "looking ... kind of ... fat."
While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, 
Comments
I find Larry Doyle's comment about Vincent D'Onofrio ironic considering that in his picture it is obvious that he is wearing a loose, oversized shirt to hid a large spare tire around his own mid- torso.
I guess the only difference between Mr. Doyle and Mr. D'Onofrio is that Vincent makes being rotund sexy ...
Posted by: Xeresa | July 9, 2009 5:59 PM
Right on Xeresa! Vincent D'onofrio is HOTT!
Posted by: prettiejennie | July 10, 2009 1:29 PM