Lifetime To Do ‘Restless Virgins’ Movie, Vanessa Marano & Charlie Carver Cast

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• Someone should win an award for that title. Best laugh of the day.

  Comment by Imagery — Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 5:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I was Vanessa’s third grade teacher (Miss Willins then) and am so happy to see her success in the business. She was a sweet, somewhat shy, beautiful child who always came to school in little (usually pink) dresses. Vanessa was not edgy, wry or sarcastic and it still makes me smile to see her play so often against type. (This may bore you, but it makes me feel happy and proud knowing that every time she reads sides or a script, that I helped her learn to read). En bocca al lupo, Vanessa!

  Comment by Paula (Mierel) Verbit — Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 5:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This book was trash and I expect this movie will be as well. I am familiar with the circumstances that inspired the authors of the original Restless Virgins book. The story portrayed in the book has very little to do with events that actually transpired, and based on the synopsis above, this movie seems like it will be even further from the truth.

  The authors of Restless Virgins based their story on interviews conducted with young women at a New England prep school, all of whom I know personally. They misled their interview subjects by pretending that they were doing an academic “anthropological study” of the experience of young women at prep schools. In actual fact, they were looking for material to form the basis for their crude, sensationalistic and misleading book, intended for mass consumption rather than academic research.

  It was exploitation at its worst. The interview subjects later complained to the authors after the book’s publishing, upset with how they were misrepresented and how they were not allowed to read the book before its publication. Their complaints were ignored.

  It sickens me to think that the authors are now profiting even more on the naivety of high school girls, who’s actually experiences were far more complex and nuanced than what was portrayed. Shame on them.

  Comment by X — Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 1:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Get over it, it’s a movie. We can put ourselves through actually crappy movies, but we can’t watch something like this? Okay, it may not be a representation of that specific school, but what’s to say it doesn’t happen elsewhere? I think it will be a movie that tackles teenagers in general. Sounds like a good one to me.

    Comment by Y — Friday September 21, 2012 @ 5:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m not sure what soap box you climbed up on. I just hope it isn’t too high…. obviously you are out of touch with the realities of New England Prep schools. Perhaps you should take a look at the sex scandals associated with BU hockey and then do the little bit of diligence necessary to see the connection between New England Prep schools and scandals like those. Whenever you emerge from the cloud of denial that currently resides between your ears, perhaps you’ll see that your argument is both baseless and pointless…. the movie is getting made, get over it, get over yourself, and most important, get some help.

    Comment by x2 — Saturday September 22, 2012 @ 7:09am PDT  Reply to this post

• I go to milton and something funny is Thayer is famous for its smorts, Andover is famous for its art and Milton is famous for its sex scandal

  Comment by Roberta — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You have no idea what you’re talking about. Seriously. The book and, from the looks of it, this movie are sensationalist, libelous trash, and that hurts real people. Nobody is saying that sex scandals are OK, but the book wasn’t even about the scandal. It took people’s lives, twisted them into thinly veiled characters, and then published them in an effort to make money and gain noteriety. The “authors” should be ashamed of themselves for capitalizing on the stories of confused adolescents. No one deserves to have the most intimate (and often embarrassing) details of his or her high school years published in such a sneaky way, under the guise of research.

  Comment by Z — Saturday February 16, 2013 @ 8:59am PST  Reply to this post

• Also, Tim Busfield, I’m disappointed in you. You’re better than this, right?!

  Comment by Z — Saturday February 16, 2013 @ 9:45am PST  Reply to this post

• I am looking forward to seeing this tv movie. I really love Vanessa Marano as she is a very talented actress and she will go a long way. I am glad she is going to be one of the “good guys” in this — at least that is what it appears from the advance publicity.

  Comment by Donald Trausneck — Monday February 25, 2013 @ 1:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• I really enjoy Vanessa Marano as an actress she is very talented n I enjoy switched at birth it’s a great show as do I believe this movie will be entertaining as well If i’m not mistaken I believe I saw Noah(new co-star on switched at birth) in the preview for this movie if that is him I’m even more excited to this movie tuning into lifetime tomorrow at eight showing my support and genuinely interested see u tomorrow at eight Vanessa

  Comment by Estrella — Friday March 8, 2013 @ 10:43am PST  Reply to this post