Word: songfulness
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...imagine it feels great once you finally sell them on a song that you love. Yeah, sometimes on the 19th try, they say they love something, and there's no better feeling in the world. But then the challenge becomes, Will I be able to get the clearance? Sometimes you won't be able to get a song for your budget, or you'll get permission three months after you really needed...
...Days hit these emotional highs and lows? In the beginning, it's the Smiths' "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," when he realizes he's in love with her. When you're a dude, and a hot chick in the elevator sings along with the song you're listening to, and that's your favorite band, there's a connection. Then there's the Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want," which he plays on his computer as she's passing and you can already see the yearning. And then Hall & Oates' "You Make...
...Apatow's real daughter who's playing the character - so when he asks me, as a warm body in the room, for my opinion, I keep quiet. On the last day of sound-editing, I suffer through a painful hour in which Apatow can't decide on the third song during the closing credits - which no one in the theater will stay long enough to hear, other than maybe the people in the room who are making this decision...
...Segel, another Freaks and Geeks alum, says Apatow told him he was too weird to get cast in roles he didn't write for himself, so Segel turned his own breakup into Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Years earlier, on the Freaks set, Apatow instructed Segel to write the sad love song his character was supposed to sing and play on guitar. "This was Wednesday, and we're going to film on Friday," says Segel. "I said, 'But Judd, I don't know how to play guitar.' He said, 'You have until Friday. You'll figure it out.' " And Segel...
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