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...Feedback Machine For all his master planning, Apatow as a moviemaker is known for his collaboration. His least favorite part of the process is writing, which for Funny People involved his speaking the characters' parts into a tape recorder. Even then, he'd call people for feedback. "The moment you think of a joke is the best moment," he says. "I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny. I'll talk about it a lot and call people and tell them, 'I thought of this joke where Steve Carell pees in his own face...
...similar experience prompted French cardiologist Dr. Olivier Ameisen to write the highly publicized memoir The End of My Addiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). A longtime alcoholic, Ameisen had checked into various rehabilitation centers at least eight times and attended nearly 5,000 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, without being able to maintain sobriety. More than five years ago, he began taking baclofen, and since then, he says, he has consistently been able to abstain from drinking altogether or drink moderately in social situations, without having cravings or other addiction-related problems...
...book, you write about the fact that he had a cocaine habit. Cocaine was his mistress for the first 10 years of our marriage. To his credit, he went into rehab and got sober in 1988 and hasn't touched cocaine since...
...write about the fact that you forgave Amy after a while. That was something that took many, many years. I have to credit the Betty Ford Center, because I went there because of my dependency on painkillers and they were the ones who helped me peel off these layers of anger and gave me the tools to live with it and accept it and move on with my life...
...imagine that if his teachers had encouraged him to write about his painful private life, P would now be even more at home in his lucid streams of consciousness...