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...fall of 1956 the Harvard Student Council, through a subcommittee chaired by Jerry Goldberg ’57, administered a college-wide survey about overcrowding in the Houses, tutorials and classes. The survey results, compiled in a report entitled “Growth and Development of Harvard College,” showed that the most serious problem lay within the Houses, as 71 percent of respondents felt that the Houses were overcrowded. In addition, the report highlighted problems springing from the overcrowding, including a lack of student-faculty contact and feelings of isolation among students...
Studio heads are so sure of Rogen's appeal that in addition to financing The Pineapple Express, which Rogen and Goldberg wrote, they've already made the kids' movie he wrote, Drillbit Taylor. And he's so excited that the studio is making Pineapple, his violent stoner action comedy, that he forces people on the set to touch the bloody prosthetic ear he's wearing. He is giddy about his on-set injuries (including a sprained finger and bruised ribs), and the explosive Butt-head-like giggle that punctuates everything he says betrays his excited nervousness. "After every single take...
...rated," Rogen says. Then he giggles. It's so R-rated that Knocked Up--despite scenes depicting childbirth from health-class angles--is a muted version of Rogen's shtick. "We said, 'The dude gets married? That's kind of lame,'" says writing partner Goldberg. "We write stuff where the universe ends and Martians land." But Rogen says he has learned from Apatow to focus on story and emotional honesty over aliens and punch lines. "Apatow kept saying, 'Less semen. More emotion,'" says Rogen...
More than anyone else in comedy since vaudeville died, Rogen is a protg. Sure, he had been writing scripts with Goldberg after school, and his mom drove him to stand-up gigs at Yuk Yuk's (his retort to hecklers: "I'm 13. In 30 years, I'll be 43. You'll be dead"). He had even been paid by a mohel to write jokes. But ever since he dropped out of high school, Rogen has studied exclusively under Apatow...
...bother me very much. I didn't think I'd ever be an actor," says Rogen. "I thought I was going to be a writer." All the time, like some sort of '70s-movie kung-fu master, Apatow was coming up with ridiculous writing tests for Rogen and Goldberg to pass: turn an idea of his into a movie in 10 days (even though nothing was going to happen at the end of 10 days); come up with 100 one-page-long ideas for movies (they did 50). "Rogen's focused and he's driven...