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...rights, Judd Apatow should be a terrible filmmaker. His movies largely feature his friends and family, which is usually an invitation to lazy inside-joking. His subjects tend to be none-too-bright slackers and losers, which always carries with it the possibility of tiresome indulgence. OK, they're kinda dumb, but, really, isn't there something adorable in their stupidity? The fact is, however, Apatow, represents, for the moment at least, the best in American movie comedy. The 40 Year-Old Virgin somehow made rather touching and funny sense out of that eponymous condition and its protagonist's recovery...
...against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost entirely in a wretched motel room, in which a downtrodden waitress (Ashley Judd, in a stunning performance) first fends off her sadistic former husband, newly paroled from jail, then takes up with an apparently agreeable drifter (Michael Shannon) who is well, er, a little more loony than he at first appears...
...first time you'll see Rogen will be as the angelic, dopey face on the posters for next month's Knocked Up, a movie written and directed by Judd Apatow, the guy who cast him for Freaks and Geeks. It's the same strategy Apatow used to sell his movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin: Put a huge unknown face in the middle of a billboard and hope people get curious. But at least Virgin's Steve Carell looked vaguely like a handsome leading man. Rogen doesn't. So the arc of his career makes little sense to anyone, including...
...that when he was doing Freaks and Geeks he was a teenager. I figured he was actually 40," says Paul Rudd, the handsome guy who has played Rogen's goofy sidekick in the past two Apatow films. "It makes me laugh to think the first time Seth and Judd worked together, Seth's mom had to be on-set. And it wasn't even that long...
...What do you think "accepting responsibility" means? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accepted responsibility [for dismissing eight U.S. Attorneys last month], but he wasn't fired. -Fred Judd, Irvine, Calif. It does not always mean that one has to resign his or her job. Human beings are going to make mistakes. I always told my own staff that I did not expect them to be perfect. I expected them to make mistakes. And, in fact, if they didn't, it might just mean that they weren't attempting great things...