Word: ideas
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...Apatow is superintense. He is rarely far from a Red Bull. On the nights he doesn't use sleeping pills, often the only way he can fall asleep is to listen to meditation courses on his iPod. He reads self-help books and rarely uses the words project or idea, greatly preferring the term problem. He's been racked with back pain and had a long bout with severe panic attacks; he'll still sit only on the aisle in a theater, in case he flips out and has to leave abruptly...
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...
...Lowdown: This research confirms what common sense already tells us - texting behind the wheel is a really bad idea. Two recent examples: two months ago a Boston trolley driver slammed into another trolley just after text-messaging his girlfriend, injuring 62 people. In September, 25 people were killed when a California train engineer struck a freight train after texting a friend. And a video of a Texas bus driver apparently striking a car while texting has been making the rounds on YouTube. It's hard to argue against banning the practice for drivers - 14 states already do - though it remains...
...right. And I think that the committees are working on that. That's the kind of detail that we had anticipated working through in conference. If it turns out that Congress just can't get there and that's the holdup, then we'll give a very definitive idea of where we need...
...disagree with this idea that because of the financial crisis somehow we can afford to put this off. In some ways I think it's just made it more urgent for some of the reasons you just said: A lot more people are losing their jobs, are vulnerable to losing their health care; our deficits are even bigger, which means the load on Medicare and Medicaid is just going to get worse. If we don't do this now we are going to be in a world of hurt later...