Flirting Movie’s Hunky Hero

We have a Kai.

Last Friday Surfer Ty and I met Lucy Mukerjee, one of the Flirting with Forty film producers, and her partner Shelley in West Hollywood for lunch at the Mondrian Hotel, home of the famous Sky Bar, a cool celeb and wanna-be hang out. Lucy arrived a few minutes late as she’d been on the phone with Sony who is casting the movie and they had news that the role of Kai has been finalized. The actor’s name is Robert Buckley and he’s quite the young hottie on t.v. at the moment, playing Nico’s love interest on Lipstick Jungle.

Now I haven’t watched Lipstick Jungle yet (I did read the book and I loved it…it’s by far my favorite Candace Bushnell novel) but apparently my boys saw a snippet at their dad’s and both immediately knew who I was talking about when I said, “he’s this young guy on Lipstick Jungle”. My 12 year old said, “Oh yeah, he’s probably the one that keeps taking his shirt off.”

It’s funny how kids are so much more aware of who is up and coming on t.v. Jake thinks it’s great that I have a up-and-coming star matched with Heather Locklear. This way I’ll have viewers my age tune in to see Heather, and younger viewers will tune in to watch Robert Buckley walk around shirtless in board shorts and hopefully that will constitute a Lifetime hit.

Speaking of Heather, yesterday when I opened my newest issue of People, there was a half page article about Heather and the recent 411 crisis at her house, and towards the end of the piece it mentioned that Heather will soon be filming Flirting with 40.

It’s kind of cool and odd at the same time to see the movie mentioned in People. It’s cool because it’s People, but it’s odd because it’s not really mine anymore. It’s not my book we’re talking about now, but a movie adaptation that makes a u-turn away from the story I wrote and has taken on a life of its own.

Maybe that’s the cool but odd feeling I get in my stomach. I started with the idea but someone else is finishing it.

I guess my baby’s grown up.