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"Judd Apatow's third directorial effort, Funny People, is being marketed as a comedy. And, to be fair, the flick revolves around a handful of comedians and has genuinely funny moments. But it's not a comedy in the conventional sense of the term. Apatow, who also penned the script, uses misdirection to tell a more dramatic story modeled more on All About Eve than Billy Madison.George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a successful comedian who's received bad news: he has advanced leukemia. One night at a comedy club, he comes across Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), an aspiring comedian. Simmons hires the young gun to wright jokes and be an assistant, though their relationship quickly begins to look like friends. Whatever the relationship, it's tested when George reconnects with a former fiancee (Leslie Mann) and Ira speaks his mind.There is so much story crammed into this admittedly long film-it has a 146 minutes running time-it wouldn't be disingenuous to say the end result is ambitious, possibly ov ... "
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"So I’m watching a movie where Adam Sandler is playing a character who is obviously designed to closely resemble Adam Sandler (in fact, much real young Adam Sandler footage is used to backstory the character) *and* I’m at the premiere where the “real” Adam Sandler is in the audience. Oh, if only I had a blunt. Ah, well, onward and upward! This is a movie about a bunch of comedians of different generations living the life of being a comedian. Three roomates: one is the sudden star of a lame sitcom; another is starting to get gigs at “The” Improv; the third, well, he has a “real” job at the food court. At first glance, this is a form of situational comedy about stand-up comedy and comedians. But that’s really just its cover, a lame-sitcom excuse for them to tell a different story. A completely different story about an aging comedian who (spoiler alert) discovers that he is dying from a rare form of leukemia and has suddenly to come to terms with his mortality and with his fai ... "
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"Between the new Vanity Fair spread starring his comedy troupe (which includes his wife) and official word that he’s producing Ghostbusters 3, Judd Apatow is the talk of the Internet today. Eric D. Snider, in a new post at Cinematical that is apparently unrelated to either bits of news, even discusses Apatow’s potential status as this generation’s John Hughes. Considering some bloggers refer to the stars of the Vanity Fair feature as the “Frat Pack,” despite that term’s origins being with another set of actors (though Apatow’s pals do overlap and have been deemed “Junior Varsity” members), may give weight to Snider’s claim. Whatever Apatow’s group is called (Vanity Fair simply yet prematurely labels them “Comedy’s New Legends”), their leader is certainly ruling over "
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