Body image writers, wellness counselors, self-love coaches, and body-acceptance advocates of all stripes don't generally strike me as a cynical, unaware bunch eager to make a buck.
Having first written the pilot script in 1983, the former Spitting Image writers had hawked their unusual and original script around but it was rejected by everyone at the BBC, as it was believed a sitcom based around science fiction would not be popular.
In a move which alarmed and angered diplomats because of its threatened repercussions for the country's image, the writer, who held a British passport, was forced to apply for entry permits every time he wanted to visit his homeland.
I was reading the newspaper and it just didn't make sense.' It is this image of writer as political animal, as romantic wanderer, that has contributed to Didion's cult status.
Body image coach, writer and speaker Jessi Kneeland recently shared a gym selfie that proudly shows off her cellulite.
"It's not fun being called a 'vampire squid,'" says Daniel Alpert, founding managing partner at investment bank Westwood Capital, referring to the image Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi used to describe Goldman in a scathing 2010 piece.
A salutary image for writers and editors to bear in mind is one of television's more excruciating pleasures, the red chair moment on The Graham Norton Show.
As its name suggests, this kind of thing is as old as Homer, and the shield of Achilles, but cinema offered a moving image for writers to renegotiate with.
Now, though, it's the lie of Cleaverism -- call it Cheeverism -- that dominates the popular image, offering writers and moviemakers a cheap way to construct a gothic version of suburbia, to throw its dark side into sharp relief.
