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...three attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School in New Jersey...
...grew up in upstate New York, and Jennifer, who is from New Jersey, fell into the hip-hop world. Soon after eFashion launched as an online marketing company, a former colleague, working for Baby Phat, threw the Foys some business. Baby Phat's Web sales increased, and once a Simmons gives a blessing, other rappers get in line. "Sometimes we just laugh about winding up in hop-hop," says Jennifer, who never listened to rap music growing up. "I mean, if we turn down an invite to a J. Lo party, we feel we have to turn down a party...
...years Braff kept meticulous notebooks of overheard stories, personal experiences, friends' lives and local newspaper clippings (thus saving from being lost to history the tale of the Jersey hotel workers who drilled holes in the walls to watch guests have sex). He used them in a romantic comedy about a young, depressed Hollywood actor who comes home to his mother's funeral, confronts his father and meets a woman. He wrote the script in 2000 while working as a waiter in Los Angeles after graduating from Northwestern, where he majored in film. "Almost everyone had passed on it," he says...
Eventually Braff got Danny DeVito's Jersey Films to co-produce it, partly by trading on the fact that the company had never made a film about its eponymous state. Then he got Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart and Method Man to be in it. At Sundance he sold it to Miramax and Fox Searchlight for a $5 million distribution deal. "He's a very confident guy. To be a director, that's what you have to do," says Portman, 23. "He demands confidence in others. You just have to talk back...
...therapist. "We went out to dinner, and we never cared where we ate. My family was all about storytelling and making each other laugh," he says of his parents before their divorce. Braff's two elder brothers have also become writers. Joshua wrote a novel about Jersey, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, which will come out in September. And Adam was hired with Zach to co-write an adaptation of the kids' book Andrew Henry's Meadow, about a boy who escapes suburbia by building a Utopia in the trees. "We describe it as Brazil for kids," says Braff...