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When I was a preteen back in the early 1980s, Judy Blume was a Big Deal. Her books dealt honestly with the concerns of adolesence — sexual curiosity, figuring out friendships, first love, and first period. The 1970s being the era of the “problem novel” in young adult fiction, there was no shortage of books that addressed all the pitfalls teenagers can fall into — read Lizzie Skurnick’s great writing on YA fiction — but I liked her books because the kids in them seemed so average, like me and my friends.
According to my much younger Strollerderby colleagues, Judy Blume books have remained iconic for girls, and probably some boys, for decades to come. I know my daughter is getting a copy of “Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret” when she hits about fifth grade, and my son will get “Then Again, Maybe I Won’t.”
Will Arnett is known to millions as George “Gob” Bluth II on the dearly departed series “Arrested Development.” My kids know him as Max The Magician on Sesame Street.
What I didn’t know is that Mr. Arnett does a lot of traditional voice-over work. Not just cartoons, like the new “G-Force”, but car commercials and stuff. So Jimmy Fallon Kimmel thought it would be fun to have Arnett read a few lines from the Judy Blume classic, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret“. Here it is: Continue reading »
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