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Publication Date Aug. 3, 2012   Male fantasies have, for
centuries, complicated women's real lives through imposed and
self-imposed expectations. Dealing with "the Pygmalion myth"
hardly seems like the stuff of a date-night romantic comedy, but
"Ruby Sparks" isn't interested in perpetuating fantasies so much
as challenging them.  "Ruby Sparks" is the brainchild of Zoe
Kazan, who wrote the screenplay and plays the title role ... of
a brainchild. Ruby is the perfect woman for young, frustrated
novelist Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, Kazan's real-life beau).
He knows this because he wrote her, tapped her out on his manual
typewriter as a therapeutic exercise meant to break through his
writer's block.  Conjured up with writerly detail -- she's "26
years old, raised in Dayton