Word: judd
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...harried production executive muses. They got Owen Wilson top-lining. The producer is Judd Apatow, who these days can do no wrong in Hollywood (Knocked Up, Superbad, et al). The director, Steven Brill, and the writers, Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen, are all School of Apatow-Sandler-Ferrell. That is to say they know their way around the sweetly raunchy manner beloved of adolescent American males...
...travel from New York to Washington for their $4,300 tryst - a violation of the Mann Act, an archaic statute that, though rarely invoked, has Spitzer pinned because it forbids "transportation of a person across state lines for purposes of prostitution." "It's an undeniable Mann Act violation," says Judd Burstein, an attorney whose history with Spitzer dates back to their facing off on opposite sides of the 1992 Gambino "mob tax" case...
...fill Midland's pockets but potentially devastate Marfa's culture, lifestyle and economy, based in large part on tourism thanks to Marfa's proximity to Big Bend National Park and its reputation as an artists' haven (artists and galleries have been a fixture in town since celebrated sculptor Donald Judd relocated here from New York...
...they are usually much older than the people they are making their movies for. The advanced average age of the voters--and the gradual conservatizing of their tastes--is one explanation for the films they give prizes to. They not only wouldn't give an Oscar to, say, a Judd Apatow film but probably haven't seen...
...core convictions to fall back on, only addled appetites to satisfy. The film is co-written by Judd Apatow, (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) who can do no wrong in Hollywood right now, and Jake Kasdan, who also directs with a light and glancing hand. They are good-natured lads - smart, but not mean-spirited - and richly blessed by the presence of John C. Reilly in the title role. There's an almost pre-moral innocence about his soft and squishy mug, a heedless exuberance in his playing. He's happy to play dumb - allowing Dewey to live...