![]() ![]() "It's odd just having people you don't know reading the book," she says, laughing. Heady stuff for a first-time author, and she knows it. ("People laughed, but I lived only a few short miles from the zoo.") Columbia Pictures has already snapped up the film rights, and Gore, 27, is writing the screenplay. ![]() ![]() She gets a neck rash when she meets a cute guy, seeks out telemarketers for romantic advice, can't Rollerblade worth a damn and obsesses over questions like how she'd get ready for work each morning if, say, a lion ripped off her right arm. "Sammy's Hill" is a laugh-out-loud literary debut, certain to draw comparisons to "Bridget Jones's Diary." Samantha Joyce, its idealistic heroine, is a whiz at the office and a wreck everywhere else. "Apparently that boring gene doesn't fall far from the tree." Turns out, yes it does. "It's about a Capitol Hill staffer who works with a congressman on a health-care subcommittee," he said. The word "funny" is not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name "Gore." Last year, when Miramax announced it had commissioned Kristin Gore, daughter of Al, to write a comic novel about a single woman working in Washington, Jay Leno turned the book into a punch line of his own. ![]()
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