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From Jim Emerson's Judd Apatow ("Welcome to Apatowland") essay at MSN Movies :
"Writer/director/producer Judd Apatow, the man Entertainment Weekly recently crowned the 'Smartest Person in Hollywood,' has made a solemn promise to put at least one penis into every movie he makes from now on. He's slipped penises into his pictures before, of course: all those obsessive-compulsive drawings in "Superbad," his own on comically disconcerting display in 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,' and Jason Segel's for a humiliating breakup in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' Sometimes, too, his films include breasts and vaginas. And there are perfectly good reasons for that. Not the least of which is that all genitalia and externally visible glands are funny.
"Apatow was created when his dad's ... well, you know how that works. He has built himself into a powerful Hollywood brand name by mashing together the sweet and the randy, the smart and the sophomoric, and the masculine and feminine psyches (and their anatomical playgrounds). Apatow earned his reputation as a writer and producer on 'The Ben Stiller Show' and 'The Larry Sanders Show.' After building up his farm team on a pair of brilliant but underwatched cult TV shows about high school ('Freaks and Geeks') and college ('Undeclared'), he finally found an audience in movies as a producer of the Will Ferrell comedies 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' and 'Talladega Nights: Th ... |
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