Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me I’d be handling a mix of personal and professional ...

The original roman a clef about the pampered lifestyles of the Upper East Side was a chick lit publishing sensation. As written by bitter former nannies, “The Nanny Diaries” supposedly ripped the lid ...

The Nanny Diaries (PG-13) MGM/The Weinstein Company (105 mins.) Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Nicholas Reese Art. Opens Friday at theaters throughout ...

Nannies may be commonplace in New York City, but in most parts of this country, they're a luxury for the few, objects of curiosity. The authors, both 28, have been on TV talk shows, and a multicity ...

The recession means rich kids are out of a job too. Result? A crop of French-speaking, name-dropping Gossip Girl nannies! Says the New York Post‘s resident crank Andrew Peyser, “the position was once ...

"The Nanny Diaries" is an insipid chick-flick with little to offer audiences other than leading ladies Laura Linney and Scarlett Johansson. The plot is outrageously similar to that of the well-known ...

Scarlett Johansson and Nicholas Art in 'The Nanny Diaries.' Mary Poppins, meet Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead, Mary Poppins. It's an odd coupling, to be sure, but "The Nanny Diaries" -- about an ...

In “The Nanny Diaries,” a culture-shocked Jersey girl takes us through the currents of New York’s Upper East Side, a universe where privilege produces distinct breeds of coldhearted businessmen, ...

ABC is planning a TV adaptation of The Nanny Diaries. The network is close to signing a deal with production company Weinstein Co, Deadline reports. The drama, based on the 2002 book, is described as ...

A blistering satire based on the real-life experiences of former New York City nannies McLaughlin and Kraus, this hilarious examination of the upper echelons of Manhattan society and the unlovable ...

Everything that playwright Lisa Loomer says in Living Out about the blindness of the middle class — even the kindest and most liberal-minded among them — to the problems of the people who work for ...

This week’s New York Times Magazine includes a poignant photo essay called “Love, Money and Other People’s Children” about the complications that arise when parents pay someone else to help care for — ...