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Funny People is the first time he's put his philosophy front and center. The 40 Year-Old Virgin was an idea Steve Carell had from doing improv. Knocked Up drew on Apatow's experiences of becoming a father, but it borrowed heavily from Rogen's foulmouthed stoner worldview. This was the knock against Apatow, which he mocked in a famous heated e-mail exchange with Mark Brazill, a co-creator of That '70s Show, who accused him of stealing one of his ideas for a Ben Stiller Show sketch and then wished cancer on him. Apatow wrote...
...large contingent of APA specialists is currently rewriting the diagnostic manual, but the revision won't be out until at least 2012. In the meantime, most people will probably continue to use their general physician for front-line psychiatric care. That may be preferable to not seeking care at all, but for high-risk patients - such as those who have a family history of depression, recent stressful life events, chronic illness or substance abuse - it would be wiser to seek specialized attention...
Stepping through a low doorway into his small house, Fida Ag Mohammed sits at a table and pats a pile of books in front of him. Even in the dim light it's clear that these are no ordinary volumes. The books are covered with intricately hand-tooled sheep- or goatskin; inside, hundreds of pages of yellowed paper are filled with Arabic calligraphy - the painstaking penmanship of Mohammed's forebears centuries ago. "One of my ancestors from the 12th century began our family library," Mohammed says. "There are hundreds of collections like this...
...your welfare, so I was relieved to learn that the case against you had been dropped and you were off to join your family on Martha's Vineyard. From what I can piece together, you must have been exhausted after a long flight, exasperated to have your front door jammed, and then dumbfounded to find yourself suspected of breaking and entering your own home. To that point, you have my sympathy...
...that Whalen saw were actually Gates, who was returning home from a trip to China, and his car driver, who was helping the professor carry his luggage and force his way through a jammed front door...