Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads is filled with the kind of true stories that made Wiseman's New York Times bestselling
book Queen Bees & Wannabes impossible to put down.
If fans had wondered when — as all high - profile SNL cast members eventually do — Fey would set her sights on feature films, their curiosity would soon be answered when it was announced that Fey would be writing and appearing in Mean Girls (2004), an adaptation of author Rosalind Wiseman's popular
book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.
Not exact matches
It started to appear in the early 2000s with
books like Odd Girl Out and
Queen Bees and Wannabes, the
book that the movie Mean Girls is based on.
But McAdams should create a burn
book disparaging all the Oscar voters who didn't recognize her insightful, scathing portrayal of
queen bee Regina George in Mark Waters and Tina Fey's 2004 comedy.
On the next level, screenwriter Tina Fey based her script on the non-fiction
book «
Queen Bees and Wannabes», which describes the hardships that girls face in high school and the cruel way girls bully one another.
Author of Masterminds and Wingmen and
Queen Bees and Wannabes — the
book behind the new Broadway show, «Mean Girls» — she puts the focus on creating cultures of dignity within schools by breaking down power structures between adults and students.
While the
book itself is written by a bestselling romance author, there's a humming hive of production surrounding the
queen bee.
Wiseman's first
book exposed the bitchy world of cliques and «
queen -
bee» teens - but here she goes further into the hive, to explore the psyches of the
queen bee moms (and king - pin dads) who were once teenagers and who, more often than not, are busily nurturing the next generation of «
queen -
bees».
From the
book jacket: What happens to
Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?