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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

And sitting across from me still is somebody who's lived with a project who had it, found it. Gosh, was it almost 15 years ago you found it?

It was more like 10. Yeah, 8 to 10 somewhere in there.

Well, the project we're talking about is the film Diary of a Teenage Girl. It's a writer, director, adapter, Mariel Heller, sitting across me. First all, thanks much for being here. I'm so pleased to be here. I'm so happy to have you here.

I'm so happy this movie got made. And for maybe the thousandth time, you get to tell the audience

what the movie's about. So it's based on a graphicyear-old girl growing up in the 70s in San Francisco with a

pretty loose mom, and she's an aspiring cartoonist, and she's just started an affair with her mother's

boyfriend.

And we should say her mom was played by Kristen Wigg, and the boyfriend's Alexander Sarsgaard,

and your star, a young...

And our star, Belle Pauley, who's incredible, who's getting so much love and

attention for this part, which makes me so happy because she just gives an incredible performance.

Well, first thing I thought when I saw the movie was, A, she looks like you.

B, she looks like all the drawings by Eileen Kaminsky. And C, you all have these kind of anime-like

eyes, these big sort of bright brimming

with eagerness cartoon eyes all right yeah Phoebe Gleckner who wrote the book she and

Phoebe really do look a lot of like she look like Phoebe yeah they do they have these very

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