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Okay, I don't get it. So we've got this adaptation of one of Sophie Kinsella's books coming to the big screen, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Isla Fisher stars as Rebecca, this college grad who gets a sweet gig as a financial journalist in Manhattan, but struggles with an immense shopping addiction that makes her bills increase well beyond what she can afford. And at some point in all of this, she falls in love with a successful entrepreneur, and also throws on a tacky outfit that rivals the horrors that Carrie Bradshaw has in her closet.

Is this whole "financial journalist" title just some sort of catchy job description? Who hires a spastic shopaholic as a financial journalist? Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like it is one of the following -- John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave, and Julie Hagerty. Okay... It's probably not Bibb, who is a fashion magazine staffer, nor Hagerty, who plays a business magazine assistant. However, it could be Lithgow's publishing magnate, Thomas' magazine editor, or Redgrave's "doyenne of a publishing empire."

So far, this sounds more like a fantasy than any sort of realistic romcom, not to say that romantic comedies are usually realistic. I just wish we could have less "women are terrible with money" crap. I know I'm not the only one who doesn't shop myself into debt, or keep credit card balances with sadistic interest rates.

Originally published in 1956, My Dog Tulip is author J.R. Ackerley's memoir of his 14-year relationship with Tulip, a German shepherd he rescued and who, eventually, appears to have taken over his life. According to Amazon, the relationship is a complicated one, because "there are indeed two Tulips. One is highly strung but heroic, flirtatious but true. The other is a four-legged rejoinder to authority: A biter, a barker, and a dab hand at defecating her way around London." Reactions to the book -- officially designated a "classic" by the New York Review of Books, if no one else -- seem to be mixed; some (dog-lovers, one assumes) dig the story for its detail and honesty, while others find those details (particularly those about Tulip's active sex life) tiresome and unnecessary.

Some of the people who love the book have not only rounded up enough money to turn it into an animated feature (with an "adult sensibility" -- that better not mean cartoon doggie porn), but also managed to attract some big names to the project, an accomplishment that instantly increases its profile. On board to provide vocal talent for My Dog Tulip, the movie, are such luminaries as Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini (though sadly no one knows which one gets to play the dog).

Voice recording is set to begin this week; producers hope to have the movie in the can by the end of next year.