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That sit well with at least one of the would-be pundits. not that Tuccillo said over a late Sunday brunch. know how to dress for a date. I like Day. There was this moment when I could have been positioned to be this dating expert, and it was the last thing I wanted to be.

so proud of Just Not That Into but I need that next step of being, you know, an So instead, Tuccillo hopped on a plane, started taking notes, and came up with a novel, to Be At its center frets Julie Jensen, a late 30s Manhattan publicist whose work is to promote jingoistic titles such as Clock Is Ticking! How to Meet and Marry the Man of Your Dreams in Ten Unhappily unhitched and unimpressed with her career trajectory, Jensen opts for major life surgery after a night out with the gals ends up ignobly in the emergency room. Curious to see if her international cohorts are faring any better, Jensen embarks on a global fact- finding mission about single- dom. Set in Iceland, India, Brazil, Beijing, Bali, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Australia and Romeand intercut with scenes of relationship free-falls back in the U.S., to Be seeks to fashion a beach read-cum- travelogue hybrid. Lucky break ABrooklyn native with roots in Iowa, Tuccillo, then a playwright bereft of television credits, landed at HBO in late 2001after a exquisitely timely introduction to and the show runner Michael Patrick King (the following day, one of his writers quit). The self-help tome that sprung from the loins, meanwhile, keeps on giving.

The film version of Just Not that Into a romantic comedy starring Gennifer Goodwin, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Ben Affleck, among others, is scheduled for a fall release. be cranky Tuccillo confessed. want to say things never fall into my lap, but I kinda say that anymore. All the bad luck had for all these years, I think this is a break. This is the good But why continue to dwell on singlehood? Tuccillo lin- gered over her mineral water a long moment.

As the last writer on board, she said, and the ended a year too soon. felt like I had one more, one last thing to get off my chest about being single. It felt almost like a continuation of that Tuccillo said. friend who read the book recently said, compiled the comprehensive book on being single, check it off your list, now ready for the next phase of your Tuccillo has already lined up several projects. At the moment, collaborating with Italian director Gabriele Muccino Pursuit of Happy- on a film about divorce as well as a series for Italian TV revolving around Italian men married to American women.

also penned a feature of her own, which she hopes to direct this year, a drama about tragedy among three friends. the darkest thing ever she says. were laughing at me, is the same woman who wrote for and the think just like most writers, affected by circumstances. It feels like a very serious reflected in what I want to write about But first, Tuccillo had to have a word with the French. to Be she said, exists at all because France, well, just that into her.

couple weeks get a new of Not That Into from my publisher in a new language, translated into Romanian or Mandarin or something. But France never wanted Ultimately, Tuccillo seduced the Gauls, but in the interim was acting like a woman scorned. I started getting obsessed with why. Why no single culture in France? no no films about being single. all about being married and having affairs.

actually ended up getting some answers, which was shocking because I thought it was going to be a joke. But the women were like, we read your book, and we need mothers, it seems, are doing something right. asked, you get that confidence They said, were taught from the beginning you have pride, a French And they really did have it. Tuccillo originally conceived of the project as a non- fiction work, based on jet-setting interviews intermittently conducted over a year and half on tab early on, the book was to pull double duty as aWeb seriesonly because changes every two seconds with online Tuccillo said. Even now, to Be reads like the thinly veiled research project it is.

did not sleep with anyone in Brazil, if the Tuccillo said, cagily have a soft spot in my heart for French men, and I love Italian men. And Australian men really did make me feel bad. I came back from Australia a broken Fictionalized reality But it only took one abortive attempt at the truth too dry, too many cross-cultural pitfalls persuade her to start fictionalizing. Even in sidestepping reality, though, Tuccillo found herself wanting to retread some self-help ground. to Be incorporates a sort of prescriptive element as the alter ego demands answers from one representative demographic after another.

The lessons, however, owe more to new perspectives than actual facts. grabs self-help books like they do in America. Maybe in England they do a little. And maybe Australia. Nowhere else are people talking about just read this book that tells me I have to do or she said.

In Chapter 2, amid the emergency room hoopla, Jensen declares herself tired with No, not a dig at the Bush administration, and in talking to Tuccillo it appears that writing to Be left its author with an almost maternal concern for her fellow countrywomen, subjected to a particularly emphatic mantra of relationship, relationship, relationship. nature wants to make fun of the idea that the answer to everything is, we have a lack of self-esteem so everything can be solved by loving your- self. become trite and empty words. been in therapy a really long time and still I come back to, still the issue, I love myself she said. so boring, such a then traveling around the world I saw that all women, and single women particularly, do so much better in the cultures where this ingrained message of loving yourself just the way you Tuccillo repeatedly cites Iceland as an exemplar, with its lingering Viking ethos, a culture predicated on men at sea while fiercely independent women held the frigid home front together.

drawn to a fundamentally forgiving mentality. particularly American women, have all these messages telling them not good enough. You do have to love yourself almost as an act of defiance, as a rebellion. Not a kind of loving While the dinner, drinks and view of the Manhattan skyline at the conclusion might ring out with the emotional resolution of a and the episode, in a Greenwich Village cafe, as in real life, an open- ended story. ready to not be the 45-year-old said by phone a few days later.

In a new relationship, she remains amenable but ambivalent on the subject of family. at the age How can I make it not sound She paused with a laugh. mainly want a partner to have a partner. always been the most important thing. love to meet someone soon enough that an For the moment, though, still a book about the relationship question to promote, which tends to bring out the comedy writer within.

being on and the was a curse for practically all the women on the she said. like fate wanted us to stay single so have mindy.farabee@latimes.com Stefano Paltera For The Times AUTHOR: felt like I had one more, one last thing to get off my chest about being Liz Tuccillo says of her new novel. Surveying singlehood PageE1 Prime-Time TV Rankings coverage of the NBA Finals swept the top three places among the prime-time programs, but CBS had each of the next six most- watched programs, helping it win the ratings race for the third time in the three weeks of summer season. CBS averaged 7.19 million viewers for its prime-time programming between June 9 and Sunday, topped by a rerun of the comedy and a Half fourth overall with 10.72million viewers, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. The most-watched program was coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, which averaged 17.39 million viewers, the most for an NBA game since Game 7 of the 2005 finals between the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs.

Through five games, the series between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics is averaging 14.6million viewers, the most since 2004and than last Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs. coverage of 62nd annual Tony Awards tied for 28thfor the week, averaging 6.27 million for the three-hour, two-minute telecast opposite Game 5 of the NBA Finals in most of the nation, a slight increase from the record low of 6.22 million for last telecast, which competed for viewers with the much-anticipated finale of the HBO organized crime and Game 2 of the NBA Finals in much of the nation. CBS on a winning streak From City News Service ProgramNet- work Viewers ProgramNet- work Viewers 1 NBA Finals, Game 5 (Sun.) ABC17.39 2 NBA Finals, Game 3 (Tue.) ABC14.51 3 NBA Finals, Game 4 (Thu.) ABC13.76 4 Two and a Half MenCBS10.72 5 NCISCBS10.16 ------------------------------------------6 CSICBS9.42 7 Million Dollar PasswordCBS9.36 8 48 Hours Mystery 9 CSI: NYCBS9.18 10 So You Think You Can Dance (Wed.) FOX8.91 ------------------------------------------11 KitchenFOX8.81 12 Deal or No Deal 13 CSI: MiamiCBS8.53 14 Rules of EngagementCBS8.51 15 Criminal MindsCBS8.32 ------------------------------------------16 Without a TraceCBS8.20 17 So You Think You Can Dance (Thu.) FOX8.02 18 HouseFOX7.97 19 60 MinutesCBS7.56 20 BonesFOX7.49 ------------------------------------------21 SwingtownCBS7.00 22 Numb3rs(10 p.m.)CBS6.81 23 Nashville StarNBC6.70 24 Celebrity CircusNBC6.52 25 The Bill EngvallShowCBS6.41 ------------------------------------------26 The Bachelorette ABC6.35 27 How I Met Your MotherCBS6.30 28 Law Order: SVU (9 p.m.) NBC6.27 Tony 30 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? FOX6.25 ------------------------------------------31 Most Outrageous Moments 8:30 p.m.) NBC6.13 32 Moment of TruthFOX6.01 33 Law Order: SVU (10 p.m.) NBC5.96 34 The Price Is Right Primetime CBS5.95 35 Most Outrageous Moments 8 p.m.) NBC5.80 ------------------------------------------36 Numb3rs(9 p.m.)CBS5.70 37 American GladiatorsNBC5.64 38 39 Most WantedFOX5.19 40 Family GuyFOX5.14 ------------------------------------------41 42 43 Ghost WhispererCBS4.95 44 Funniest Videos ABC4.91 45 Fear ItselfNBC4.87 ------------------------------------------46 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Mon.) UNI4.81 47 American DadFOX4.71 48 (Tue.) ABC4.70 49 Saturday Night LiveNBC4.63 50 (Sun.) ABC4.62 ------------------------------------------51 Fuego en la Sangre (Tue.) UNI4.60 52 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Wed.) UNI4.59 53 Fuego en la Sangre (Wed.) UNI4.58 54 Men in TreesABC4.57 55 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX4.50 56 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Tue.) UNI4.45 57 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Thu.) UNI4.44 Fuego en la Sangre (Mon.) UNI4.44 59 (Thu.) ABC4.38 60 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Fri.) UNI4.32 ------------------------------------------61 Fuego en la Sangre 62 Dateline: NBC 63 Fuego en la Sangre (Thu.) UNI4.15 64 SupernannyABC4.08 65 Para ------------------------------------------66 Last Comic Standing 6NBC4.05 67 Cops (8 p.m.)FOX4.02 68 Most Outrageous Moments 8:30 p.m.) NBC3.93 Friday Night Smackdown! CW3.93 70 The MoleABC3.88 ------------------------------------------71 48 Hours Mystery 8 p.m.) CBS3.78 The SimpsonsFOX3.78 73 Wife SwapABC3.77 74 King of the HillFOX3.74 75 Most Outrageous Moments 8 p.m.) NBC3.64 ------------------------------------------76 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC3.61 77 Wonderful World of Disney ABC3.54 78 79 Don Francisco PresentaUNI3.37 80 My Name Is Earl ------------------------------------------81 According to Jim (9:30 p.m.) ABC3.23 82 According to Jim (9 p.m.) ABC3.14 83 Cristina UNI3.13 84 My Name Is Earl 85 Aqui AhoraUNI3.08 ------------------------------------------86 Jimmy Kimmel Live (Thu.) ABC3.03 87 Jimmy Kimmel Live (Tue.) ABC3.00 88 Jimmy Kimmel Live (Sun.) ABC2.91 89 Yo Amo Juan Querendon (Tue.) UNI2.89 90 Yo Amo Juan Querendon (Thu.) UNI2.84 ------------------------------------------91 Yo Amo Juan Querendon (Fri.) UNI2.70 92 Amas de Casa Desesperadas UNI2.64 93 Forget the LyricsFOX2.58 94 Yo Amo Juan Querendon (Mon.) UNI2.57 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS7.199.79 NBC6.787.57 ABC6.758.62 FOX6.0110.45 UNI3.383.51 CW1.692.40 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (June 9-15) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish.

Nielsen estimates there are 286 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions..