I’m really glad she has a hit with The New Girl.
I’ve long thought she’d be perfect for TV as sort of a nouveau Marlo Thomas.
Zooey mixes quirks with likability and can play a kook like no one since Zasu Pitts!
And she’s been a fun presence on the club scene with her Weimaresque musical performances, always hanging with the cool kids and strutting her creative side.
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Besides, movies weren’t really treating her right.
With rare exceptions, Zooey would turn up in large-scale comedies where she was basically window dressing, the proverbial straight man for some better-paid male comic to do his shticking.
Or she’d be cast in by-the-numbers indies that probably paid shit.
So yay for the new girl! She’s found a home.