EXCLUSIVE: While (500) Days of Summer didn’t get the Best Picture nod as some expected, good things keep happening for those involved. Zooey Deschanel has just committed to star in an HBO half-hour pilot that will be based on I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, the Pamela Des Barres’ memoir of bed-hopping with musicians and movie stars in the late 1960s. Deschanel will be executive producer with her longtime manager Sarah Jackson of Seven Summits, and Tim Gibbons, an executive producer of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Des Barres bragged about her bedroom experiences with the likes of Mick Jagger, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and actor Don Johnson. But along the with excitement of rolling with famous rockers, there was also the emptiness and heartbreak of being demeaned and discarded by stars once the next pretty young thing came along. That turf was also covered by Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous. Zooey’s series is supposed to be a dramedy.
Zooey Deschanel To Be HBO Groupie
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zooey is one note actress, plays the same character in every movie, she is worse than Michael Cera
Why would anyone rehash Pamela DeBarres’ slutting around? She was just another wannabe back when, and is even more irrelevant now.
Ms. DesChanel is a real talent, why waste said talent on garbage?
Sounds like an intriguing world – one which Zooey should fit in quite nicely. Can’t wait to see the pilot!
Totally agree.
Zooey is terrific and the story concept sounds terrific. Nice move HBO…good luck Zooey!
She is so good in movies (and seems to be in high demand) that I am a bit surprised she will be doing a TV show. I will be watching it, though. Sounds like it could be worthwhile.
does she always have to wear her bangs the same way, in everything? it’s tiresome. but i like her too.
Can Zooey pull off slutty? I kinda don’t want her to. I wonder if Ben does.
Why would she do tv right now? I saw 500 days and thought “this women is a movie star.” I just don’t get it. She beautiful, complicated, talented and young that why TV now? Congrats on the pilot but shouldn’t she be in the next big drama or comedy next year.
Both Zooey and her new husband tour with their bands. She probably doesn’t want to be shipped off to movies sets around the world in between. TV brings stability.
it’s not tv. it’s hbo.
true, HBO is nothing to sneeze at. There are seasons where I don’t go to the theater because nothing stands out as being worth my time and getting a sitter, but I don’t miss my HBO shows.
Let’s not forget, she dropped out of college for her first big gig in ALMOST FAMOUS.
I’ve always found her sexy, but she never plays that up in the roles she takes – so I’m excited to see her get a little wild.
Same here. I’m looking forward to seeing Zooey’s take on this role indeed.
If Sarah Jackson thinks this is a good move for Zooey, it’s a good move for Zooey.
Yea, Sarah Jackson is the shit. BooRah!
WHile I am thrilled that Zooey is playing me in this show, I do not appreciate the way this article comes across. I didn’t brag, there was no emptiness, and I was NEVER demeaned or discarded by my rock star boyfriend, and I didn’t have affairs with movie stars either. this person has obviously never read “I’m WIth the Band.” And my ex husband Michael Des Barres and myself are also producers in this series,
thanks, Pamela Des Barres
well damn…hehehehe
Don Johnson is a movie star?
Hi Pam,
Congrats for the Executive Producing this promising project. Although it has been described here as a drama, I hope your creative team will also cover some of the truly uplifting and funny (even if ultimately tragic for other reasons) moments say with Keith Moon and others. And if Robert Plant said by 1987 ‘the real thing doesn’t exist anymore’ re rock, your book and viewpoint are so clearly different culturally and individually with happened in LA in the 1980s and forward. Hope there is a way to convey that clear distinction from the mindlessness of what took over later.
All the best.
If all of what you’re saying is true, Pamela, and you are, in fact, on board as an exec producer, then I have one question: what’s going to make the show worth watcing? If you weren’t treated like shit by your rock star paramours, then where’s the conflict going to come from? Everything you’re saying the show isn’t seems to me like what the show ought to be.
How unimaginative and tiresome. Do you need a male protagonist to be treated like shit in order to feel there’s sufficient conflict to hold your interest? Good thing you’re not writing it.
Aside from an overall coming-of-age arc with fantastic moments like finding her own voice with the GTOs, what about just having a Dionysian blast like every damn week on Entourage? Nobody needs to see Adrian Grenier “treated like shit” in order to justify paying their cable bill every month.
How tiresome and unimaginative. Do you need to see a male protagonist treated like shit in order to convince you there’s sufficient conflict to sustain your interest? Good thing you’re not writing it.
Aside from a coming-of-age arc set in a fantastically appealing world, ultimately stepping into the spotlight herself with her own band, the GTOs, what about just having a Dionysian blast like every damn week on Entourage? Do you think Adrian Grenier needs to be treated like shit to justify his good times on that show, too? How punitive and Puritan to expect that a female groupie needs to be mistreated. Blech.
I read your book just a couple of months ago, and I was thrilled to learn there’s going to be a movie! After I finished IWTB, I remember telling my husband I couldn’t believe it hasn’t been made into a movie.
Congrats on your success, Miss Pamela!
Zooey….mmmmm…love her.
BTW Paul Canterna is also her manager alongside Sarah — he does all the legwork. Great guy too.
Yes, a TV series brings SOME stability but series like this only film about 10 episodes usually and that might take a couple months. The rest of the year, she will have time to work on She & him and other films. Not to mention, Ben will still be touring with his band… so this doesn’t exactly help any of that. If they didn’t know what they were getting into by getting married, they shouldn’t have in the first place.
500 Days of Summer should have been nominated for best picture.
Paul Canterna is indeed a guy who does some heavy lifting while not getting much credit. I’ve met with him a few times and always looks out for his clients. He’s the real deal.
“Candy” (Canterna) is a bit of a mystery. Humble, intelligent but a bit crazy. Wouldnt want to mess with the guy. Undervalued as a manager. Zooey should listen to him.
I like her as an actress but this series sounds ghastly. I’m so glad I gave up HBO after the Sopranos went off. There’s not been one minute of programming I’ve missed since.
500 days of summer is so insanely annoying, i can’t believe it didn’t get the “juno” slot for clever empty screenwriting.
Big fan Zooey! Hey, I learned that from you doll.
It is show ideas like this that make me happy to pay the extra cable fees for HBO! I love their line up, and I am sure this will be just as great as the others. Zooey is a great actress, and I am very interested to see how she does on the producing side of things. It is nice to see actors & actresses be involved in the entire creative process.
Those bangs have got to go. Get a new hairdo, lady.
I have waited YEARS to have Miss. Pamela’s book made into a movie, this is even more exciting since I will get to see it every week can’t wait!!
And I agree if the person that wrote the article read the book they would have known Miss. Pamela was never thrown away…
Pamela’s book is a great great look at the L.A. music scene at that time, and just a pure love for rock ‘n’ roll. What about the GTOs? And Frank Zappa’s influence? I’d love to see that story told. Groupie, ok, sure, but it’s more about being a music fan, soaking up everything.
I love her… She’s gorgeous!
Come on, 500 Days was good stuff. I understand not loving it (although I loved it) but hating it is simply cynical nonsense.
Credit needs to go to Pam’s book editor, Jim Landis at William Morrow books for signing Pamela DeBarres up in the first place. He was also the editor on my book”Rock Wives.” I have had the pleasure of meeting Pamela Debarres backstage at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary party at Madison Square Garden, and she is very charming- more charming than the character played by Kate Hudson in “Almost Famous.”
Congrats to Zooey and Everyone at Seven Summits (Sarah, Kris, Paul, and Patty). The team at Seven Summits are truly some of the nicest people working in this industry, and I wish them the best.