Wednesday, July 11, 2012

under the tuscan sunset

So Kirk, Wanda and I are driving the back roads of Tuscany, zipping along the one-lane zero visibility bridges from Etruscan village to Medieval mine town, and we're thinking up best-seller ideas (we've reached that point in the vacation where Visa bills are factoring in), and we thought up a pretty good conceit. Sort of "Under the Tuscan Sun" meets "Golden Girls."

Here's the pitch:

Four middle-aged women (friends of long-standing), swear off men, sell all their worldly goods, and buy a villa in Tuscany. One by one they fall off the man-swearing-off wagon (insert beefcake cougar-hunting, Vespa-zooming hunk, or some recently widowed secret millionaire), but they can't let the others know they're indulging in boy. Madcap adventures ensue as they try to hide their trysts from one another.

What do you think? Got any other trope-meets-trope ideas? Let 'em fly!

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:00 AM

    Sounds like a good plot (since SIsi is not being picked up by the major networks). Perhaps you could factor in that one of the babes is a distant offspring of hers (did she have kids?) When the movie rights are picked up for the chic flic, make sure you maintain casting rights.

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  2. I'm too distracted by your idea that I can't' think of anything else!

    I'm thinking we might need a group of our golden selves to spend a year ensconced in some Italian villa. An experiment, a gathering of information. If we have to suffer for our art, so be it!

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    1. I was thinking the same, Teri! Bracelets and all!

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  3. i'm with teri--i'm ready for a new kind of "suffering for my art" vs. this meh/bleh suffering i do.

    i've got a title and story bend for you:
    the guys name is Leon and the title is Pouncing on Leon...you know, b/c he's their fountain of youth. the fountain, of course, can be, ummm...extended...either literally or metaphorically. or both. (that could be the mad-cap-ness, all the ways they start wanting to take advantage of his fountain: face cream, morning smoothies, frozen into vitamin pills, they become obsessed with it, fighting over it in all forms.) (and yes, i just pitched a story based mostly on sperm.)

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    1. Sweeeet! And remember- sperm is great for taming hair that's gone awry. Just ask Sophia Loren!

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    2. Love this. We could get Cameron Diaz to star in the movie, since she's got experience with semen as a styling product.

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