Word: apatow
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...stages of construction - quick, where do you think the final fight sequence will take place? - and Dr. Watson (Jude Law) about to leave Holmes for a girl, Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly). Holmes is jealous, to put it mildly, and they bicker like something out of a much lesser Judd Apatow movie. "My rooms," says Watson, referring to the Baker Street apartments they share. "Our rooms," Holmes retorts. "My dog," says Watson, referring to the corpulent white dog Ritchie cuts to for an occasional punchline. "Our dog," Holmes says tartly. They'd be "The Odd Couple" if they were funnier...
...interesting subset of brunchers on the rise: men ages 21 to 34, a demographic associated more with late nights on the town than cheery mid-morning group meals. But even in the current era of Judd Apatow bromance movies, Balzer still believes the increase in bro-brunches (bronches?) stems from the desire to eat cheaply combined with a serious lack of skills in the kitchen...
Funny Is Funny, but DifferentGlee's popularity-contest story also recalls the film Election, and more and more TV comedies are finding inspiration in movies. This is only fair, since perhaps the hottest school of movie comedy - that of Judd Apatow and his disciples - comes straight from Apatow's work on TV shows like Freaks and Geeks...
This year's Starz sitcom Party Down (gearing up for a second season next year), about aspiring showbiz types working for a catering company in L.A., perfectly captures the Apatow vibe of improv-like, conversational comedy. Likewise, HBO's Bored to Death, a literary slacker-com about a writer (Jason Schwartzman) posing as a detective, has a voice and offbeat style that recall indie-film comedies - the kind, like Rushmore, that star Jason Schwartzman...
...sides of the balloon at all times. The two men in question were Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a young doctor who was exactly as dashing as he sounds, and the Marquis d'Arlandes, an army major. Their dialogue could not have been scripted better by Judd Apatow. (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...