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Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker
Joan Juliet Buck enjoys Toni Collette's wild transformations.
Diablo Cody's script for the unrepentant teen-pregnancy movie Juno won her an Oscar; at 30, she's made her niche depicting families where anything goes, and she explores the joys of multiple-personality disorder in United States of Tara. It airs next month on Showtime, the channel that likes borderline heroes ( Dexter is about a serial killer, and Californication is about a sex addict). Toni Collette plays Tara, a married suburban muralist with two children and a long-suffering sister named Charmaine (Rosemarie DeWitt). The husband (John Corbett) is nice, the teenage daughter adorable and annoying, the preteen son overly refinedhe has a poster of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in his room, cooks, listens to Thelonious ...