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Best friends since middle school, Brian Finn (Edward Norton) and Jake Schram (Ben Stiller) are single and successful young men living on New York's Upper West Side. Both men are completely committed to their faith, and equally committed to their respective congregations as a priest and a rabbi. Thinking of themselves as a modern "God Squad, like the new cops who want to shake up the precinct," each tries to enliven their services when the energy level begins to ebb by spicing up their sermons with stand-up comedy. At one point, Jake actually says, "But seriously, folks...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tired Joke Breeds Stale Comedy | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...Beatty was when he produced and starred in Bonnie and Clyde--Norton has directed and starred in Keeping the Faith, a genially wistful romantic comedy about two guys and the girl they've always loved. If this old-fangled triangle about a priest (Norton), a rabbi (Ben Stiller) and a dynamic executive (Jenna Elfman) proves as popular as early previews suggest, it will give further credence to the belief that Norton is blessed. After just seven films, this Yale grad has earned two Oscar nominations, some of the most demanding roles in recent movies and--though he will never ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...Stiller, who acts, directs, writes and for all we know works as a U.N. peacekeeper on weekends, explores "What Will Make Us Laugh?" Two artists, musician Moby and director Julie Taymor, offer radically different visions of their world, with Moby turning us all into composers and Taymor predicting that what we will really crave in 2025 is the wild, exhilarating experience of leaving behind our computers and TVs on a Saturday night and going to...the theater. "Artists were especially turned on by our assignment," Zoglin says. "They love grappling with the question of how technology will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions 21: How We Will Live and Play | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Stiller directed and starred in the movie Reality Bites and co-starred in There's Something About Mary

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Make Us Laugh? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...create her 1970s success. "But then," Moore says, "I began to get more and more parts that fulfilled my need to do daring roles"--see her brilliant turn in 1996's Flirting with Disaster, in which she displayed her well-preserved upper torso for an embarrassed Ben Stiller. The reunion, she says, "is not going back. It's bringing into it all the age spots and the weather lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Doing Less with Moore | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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