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Russell don’t need a third time for the charm to kick in — they were showered with accolades for their work together on _American Hustle_ and _Silver Linings Playbook_— but they may be already cooking up another project together anyway. _Deadline_ [reports](http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/american-hustles-david-o-russell-jennifer-lawrence-circle-joy-mangano-story-at-fox-2000/) that Russell has started planning his next film, and (unsurprisingly) he wants Lawrence to play the lead. Given their track record? It’s all but destined to be a doozy come Oscar season. The movie doesn’t yet have a title — but it _does_ have a script by _Bridesmaids_ co-writer Annie Mumolo — and reportedly, it’s a “rags to riches” biopic of Joy Mangano. So who’s she? (**MORE**: [2013 Wrap Up: It Was Jennifer Lawrence’s Year](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/17/2013-wrapup-jennifer-lawrences-silver-linings-yearbook/)) As detailed in a [2001 New York _Times_ profile](http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/cleaning-up-in-business-with-a-mop.html) of the Long Island entrepreneur, her story began in 1989 when Mangano, a divorced mother of three, found herself frustrated by pretty much every aspect of mopping floors. So, over the course of the next few years, she developed a product — the Miracle Mop — that would last longer and be easier to wring out. She convinced QVC executives to let her pitch it herself in a TV appearance that led to [18,000 mops selling in just 20 minutes](http://books.google.com/books?id=c2L0av6Ga94C&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=joy+mangano+entrepreneur+of+the+year&source=bl&ots=aOCrTVwgiX&sig=bHGTUhMsbYOGiVItLuEwb4gm59M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4NLrUu36IuHhygHkzYC4Cg&ved=0CGUQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=mangano&f=false), and ten years later, she sold her growing company to the parent company of Home Shopping Network. By 2006, [ABC reported](http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=1782048&page=2) that she was living in a 14-bedroom mansion. And, bonus for Jennifer Lawrence, there’s plenty of Joy Mangano footage out there so she can work on the performance. 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