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...Playing in non-traditional venues] has got some obvious disadvantages,” says Jonah B. Sirota, the group’s violist. “Acoustically it’s not as good, people aren’t paying as much attention. The advantages for us are really that we’re potentially reaching a different audience... it’s more relaxed, people don’t feel like they have to dress up or fit into any sort of socioeconomic bracket...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chiara String Quartet to Hit the Bar This Thursday | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Wichita (Emma Stone, she of the sultry voice and fetching overbite who was Jonah Hill's love object in Superbad) and Little Rock (Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin) are also serial grifters. They relieve a gas-station attendant (Chuck & Buck's Mike White) of his money, and Columbus and Tallahassee of their car and weapons. Little Rock is mature and calculating beyond her years, or, as she explains while frisking Tallahassee, "Twelve is the new 20 - gun, please." Wichita, who's about Columbus' age, has had all the world experience he's missed. For Columbus, whose idea of emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zombieland: The Year's Coolest Creature Feature | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...also cited Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist who wrote about the “Jonah [Yonah] Complex...

Author: By Emily M. Boggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lecturer Probes Jewish Story | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...decided that no one could expect me to do any actual acting. I think he's very interested in truth, so he has a good intuition about people's essence." Sean (Diddy) Combs co-stars in next year's Apatow-produced Get Him to the Greek, in which Jonah Hill has to transport Brand's rock-star character to a gig at the Greek Theater in L.A. "I prepared the script like any audition," Combs says. "When I walked in, they took my script and said, 'You won't even need that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Judd Apatow Seriously | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

Apatow often serves as a mentor to the young people in his comedy troupe. The advice he hands out is exactly what he learned from watching Carrey and Sandler: They succeeded by writing their own movies to star in, so start typing. He barely knew Jonah Hill, now 25, when he hooked him up with a scriptwriting deal. "I was living at home, getting my tonsils taken out, and I was getting an e-mail from Judd saying, Here's your Universal movie deal. Now write down 100 ideas," says Hill. "My parents were like, 'Is this guy touching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Judd Apatow Seriously | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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