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$100,000 Reward.....
Harvey Weinstein - the P.T. Barnum of the movie industry - is hyping his version of "The Nanny Diaries" by offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can identify the bitchy, shopaholic Upper East Side mom (played by Laura Linney) who inspired the authors of the best-selling roman a clef. Manhattan's upper crust is buzzing over the identity of Mrs. X, who ignores her child and terrorizes the nanny (played by Scarlett Johansson). {Source-New York Post}
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Um correct me if i am wrong, but didnt the author say that mrs. X was compiled of a bunch of different people? So is this guy going to give 100k for each of the mothers found?
Word on the street is that the father of the Mrs. X made his money in blood diamonds.
I have a nanny story for Weinstein. This nanny's employer's sole goal in life is unrelated to her children but to her undignified attempts to make an appearance in David Patricks Columbia's NY Social Diary.
i could give you many names of mother's in nyc and all over the country that fall in this catagory..so sad
he knows it not just one person so won't need to pay it out, he's just trying to drum up biz but like the devil wears prada i'm sure people are dying to see it
lisa birnbach
I think Laura Linney is so pretty. For the nanny diaries to work, I have to imagine the nanny employer as being attractive and fashionable.
Not Big Bird.
It could be a number of women
I loved the book and can't wait to see the movie! As a nanny I can tell you I have worked for several people that fit the description!
If Big Bird was ordering me about, I would laugh my ass off. I doubt I would be at all intimidated. You know, by Big Bird.
I need a truck to collect all the UES women who fit the description. I like UWS parents better, they are less superficial and don't spend too much time ignoring their kids and living up to outrageous social expectations.
707,
did you post this on a nanny board? Is this the woman that does nothing but shop and play dress up and pose in front of the mirror trying to perfect her smile so she makes it in the paper? Funniest thing I read all year, if that is one in the same. Has she modeled any clothing for you lately?
3:01 PM
UWS women may not spend as much time ignoring their kids and trying to live up to outrageous social expectations as UES women as you say, but they don't necessarily treat their nannies any better.
A Nanny with stories
Are you calling Lisa Big Bird? She doesn't like that.
Who do you think collectively has the worst nanny stories? Long Island is too middle class and deseperately ugly. Greenwich and Connecticute in general is too tied to the days of Quakers to be that awful. That leaves UES, UWS and Westchester.
Tribecca moms and nannies are the best!
What do you think of New Jersey moms. Especially, if anyone is familiar with Bergen County Ex: Englewood, Woodcliff Lake, Ridgewood, Edgewater, Fort Lee. Here they all seem to be cheap. What do you guys think?????
Hi 7:18pm, probably non of my beeswax, but it appears 3:01pm was comparing the relationship of UES moms & their kids to that of UWS parents & their kids. He/She makes no claim regarding who treats nannies better. Just my two cents :)
10:26pm, is that a trick question?
i personally don't see any interaction between the nannies & their elusive employers so i dying to see the movie and find out if this is factual or just a over the top crazy. i see a lot of nannies in this area but nobody really looks like they working out of Fab houses or their kids are dressed really nice. Maybe it different here in Park Slope....I wonder.....because there's tons & tons of nannies.
Being a nanny, I was excited about and have seen the Nanny Diaries twice; only because I read the book and LOVED (can't express the word enough.. LOVED IT) the book... not as much as "you'll never nanny in this town again!", but was great.
Anyway, I expected this movie to be great... anticipated it with excitement for MONTHS (it was supposed to be released in April!)and was super excited. I saw it on Friday when it opened, and was GRAVELY disappointed. (not to mention they changed so much of the movie, including the ending).... Well, yesterday I was thinking to myself "i couldn't have been THAT disappointed in it... maybe it was just the fact that I was already annoyed with the kids in the theatre at the time making so much noise"... so i saw it again. It was semi-better, but still nothing that I thoroughly enjoyed.
I have been fortunate enough to have not worked for a family of that type of caliber yet. But, I know that I would not last in a position like that, because I don't allow parents to treat me like crap. But, I could definitely relate to Annie's reluctance to leave the boy... who would want to leave the boy with parents like that?!
Sorry, this turned into a review of the movie and it was only meant to say that I was disappointed in the movie, and to possibly save some nannies from rushing to see it based on the book... wait for it to come out on video, you'll be glad you did.
Well, quite frankly I'd say it was a bunch of different mother too ~
I know personally of a family in the 'movie' business that loved having a british (Mary Poppins) nanny here to show off. The
ultimate status symbol. Every time she
came back from the weekend the poor baby had screaming diaper rash because
neither parent bothered to change the child more than once a day for the weekend. Much less wash the poor kid.
So her entire week was spend at the Dr's
getting it looked at and clearing the damn diaper rash up only to have it there again on monday morning.
There was not much interaction with the parents and the children. It was really sad, they just threw money and stuff at the kids. They dumped the nanny in a very nasty way later.
Mr X is definitely Steven Haft... in the book, they made him a WASP -- but the whole running around with women, potbellied philanderer, gruff, distracted, absent emotionally, social climbing, bad table manners, no time for anyone but himself, also hoarding, compulsive liar, cruel personality, Jekyl/Hyde (one way in public, another in private), anger issues, bad with $$$ (no matter how it appears on the outside), etc.
It is sad: I actually think he has Adult ADHD (google it), and has no idea the wreckage of other people's lives he leaves in his wake (like, lots of other people)... I think his biggest tragedy is that he is oblivious to how he treats people. (Hence, he doesn't "get" The Nanny Diaries.)
But like many New Yorkers, he talks a good game.
And where is he now? Karma... it's a you-know-what...
I read the book and actually felt sorry for LB. But (like so many things) it is the kids that pay for this.
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