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While Marshall declined to comment on the specifics of the transaction and the price of the transaction was not disclosed in records, Harvard Business School professor Arthur I. Segel said that real estate buyers and sellers’ use of separate corporations to transfer real estate is “not out of the ordinary” and may be used by buyers to shield their other assets from liability claims after the transfer...
...This is the convention to limit downside exposure on any one investment,” Segel said. “The seller may also use corporations to insulate him or herself from any liability going through with the new owner...
Twice in the course of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, its amusingly woebegone protagonist, Peter Bretter (Jason Segel, who also wrote the screenplay) appears stark naked, his frontalia fully, if briefly, on view. The Judd Apatow comedy conglomerate, which is responsible for every aspect of the picture, has caused some buzz by striking brave poses about the near-Constitutional right of actors to display the family jewels when the spirit moves them...
...Segal?s thingy adds greatly to the gaiety of nations. And it?s possible that this hoo-ha will distract us from the fact that this is not a bad little comedy. People tend to focus on the raunchy premises of Apatow?s work (he produced the film, and Segel, director Nicholas Stoller and some of the actors are veteran collaborators), while ignoring the qualities that made movies like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad such mighty hits, which is a certain wistfulness and romantic...
...Segel has written himself a good part as the amiable, emotionally underdeveloped and not exactly buff Peter, and as an actor he finds the right line for this doofus to tread. He edges up to the farcical, but then backs off to more plausible sorts of confusion. He allows you feel for the guy. Most of us, at one time or another, have been jilted and tried to struggle back from despair and that grounds this comedy in a certain reality, which is not allowed to become oppressive...