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Though Harvard will not be offering any official programming during the January break, the Office of International Programs, Office of Career Services, Office of the Arts, Center for Public Interest Careers, and Philip Brooks House Association will be available to assist those not allowed to stay on campus with finding...
Since his 2005 hit The 40 Year-Old Virgin, when Apatow became a brand name, almost a genre, in roughhouse comedy, the films he's produced have opened well and, more important, had staying power - what the industry calls "long legs." The final theatrical earnings for Virgin and Knocked Up...
It's said that inside every comedian is the urge to play Hamlet. (Hey, Mel Gibson did it.) Well, inside Judd Apatow, he wishes, is a secret Jim Brooks. James L. Brooks is the sitcom titan (Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, The Simpsons) who forged an Oscar-winning film career as...
Brooks is the secret touchstone of Funny People; indeed, its two-part structure is Terms of Endearment in reverse, with the deadly disease coming before the lovey stuff. (Sandler even did a Jim Brooks film; unfortunately, it was that rare Brooks misfire, Spanglish.) And where Brooks' stories are usually about...
All his characters, after all, strive to be better people. "There's a thread going all the way from Freaks and Geeks to Funny People," says Shandling, for whom Apatow worked as a writer on The Larry Sanders Show in the mid-'90s. "That philosophy is, We're all doing...