Word: blumbergs
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Nearly three years ago, actor Edward Norton convinced Stuart Blumberg, an old college friend from Yale, to ditch plans for Harvard Law School and work on a film screenplay. The result of his intervention is _Keeping the Faith_, a new romantic comedy first-time director/producer Norton jokingly refers to as his "$30 million rabbi priest joke." However, while the film certainly pays lip service to its religious subtext, it certainly takes its time in exploring them. The movie's two-hour and ten-minute running time is too long, really, for what is essentially a fluffy date movie with...
...there's a curse on Norton, it is his unease at fame. "He's not comfortable with being famous," says Stuart Blumberg, his Yale buddy who wrote Keeping the Faith. "He hasn't mastered the art of being a fake celebrity. But to his friends, Edward's the quintessentially normal guy. He's funniest when he's just being a nerdy goofball...