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Cosby Show Actor Working as Cashier Has Friend in Twitter

Articles put Geoffrey Owens on blast for his cashier gig

(Newser) - An actor known best for his role on The Cosby Show who was snapped by a Trader Joe's customer when he was spotted working as a cashier is being defended against the ensuing ridicule by fans and famous folks alike across social media. Geoffrey Owens, who played the role...

Woody Allen Gets Another Celeb Defender

And a critic in Judd Apatow

(Newser) - Diane Keaton is the latest celebrity to defend Woody Allen from allegations that he sexually molested his adopted daughter in 1992. Keaton—who won the best actress Oscar for her role alongside Allen in 1977's Annie Hall, which Allen also directed—took to Twitter on Monday to describe Allen...

Celebs Share Awkward Photos —for a Cause

Stephen Colbert, Nick Kroll donating $2K in aid to Puerto Rico for each

(Newser) - Even the biggest names in Hollywood went through that awkward pubescent stage—and now we have the proof. Celebrities including Sarah Silverman , Jimmy Kimmel , and Judd Apatow have been sharing less-than-flattering photos of their awkward younger years on Twitter using the hashtag #PuberMe after Stephen Colbert vowed to donate $1,...

Judd Apatow Not Giving Up on Artie Lange After Arrest

The comedian was arrested on drug charges last Sunday

(Newser) - Judd Apatow promised he "would never give up" on Artie Lange after the comedian was arrested on drug charges this week, Entertainment Weekly reports. According to TMZ , Lange was arrested in the parking garage of his apartment building in New Jersey last Sunday after police allegedly found heroin and...

How the 'Worst Pitch' Ever Became HBO's Girls
How the 'Worst Pitch' Ever
Became HBO's Girls
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Feb 3, 2017 2:40 PM CST

How the 'Worst Pitch' Ever Became HBO's Girls

On the eve of the show's final season, the 'definitive backstory'

(Newser) - A one-and-a-half page pitch written by a 23-year-old that doesn't name a single character or even discuss plot. If that doesn't exactly sound like the genesis of an HBO hit, meet the exception. In what it touts as the "definitive backstory" of Lena Dunham's Girls on...

Judd Apatow: Cosby Is Personal—I Know a Victim

The comedy-maker talks to 'Rolling Stone'

(Newser) - In a nearly 8,000-word Rolling Stone profile of "the most prominent comedy-maker of our time," Jonah Weiner asks Judd Apatow plenty of questions and Apatow gives plenty of revealing answers: about his "lowering" self-esteem, a poem he wrote at age 15 called "Divorce" that "...

New Pee-Wee Movie Coming to Netflix

Judd Apatow will produce

(Newser) - Word of a Judd Apatow-produced Pee-Wee Herman flick has been going around for a while now , and today Netflix announced that it has picked up the film. Pee-Wee's Big Holiday will, of course, star Paul Reubens in the title role; Reubens also co-wrote the screenplay, according to the Hollywood ...

25-Year-Old Simpsons Episode to Finally Air

Long-lost episode written by Judd Apatow when he was 22

(Newser) - Back when The Simpsons had aired only six episodes and Judd Apatow was just a 22-year-old looking for a TV writing gig, the now-crazy-successful comedy writer came up with a spec script for the Fox series. He submitted it and got no bites—but now, 25 years later, the episode...

7 Pairs of Celeb Roommates
 7 Pairs of Celeb Roommates 
Oct 11, 2014 9:20 AM CDT

7 Pairs of Celeb Roommates

You may not have known these stars lived together

(Newser) - Want to live with a celebrity? Try being a celebrity yourself. The Stir rounds up celebrity pairs you probably didn't know lived together:
  • John Cusack and Jeremy Piven: They were childhood friends in Evanston, Illinois, and lived together in Chicago. But when asked later what happened when Cusack became
...

Critic: Shooter's 'Delusions Inflated' by ... Rogen Movies

Actor 'horribly' insulted, hits back at WaPo movie critic

(Newser) - In a column Sunday, Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday suggested that Hollywood contributed to the feelings of the Isla Vista shooter —who declared in a video that he would take revenge on women who rejected him—and Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow aren't happy that Hornaday specifically...

20 Celeb Kids Who Are Also in the Biz

Nepotism, apparently, reigns in Hollywood

(Newser) - Disgusted that so very many of Angelina Jolie's kids managed to snag roles in her upcoming film, Maleficent? Well, get ready for more nepotism, because the Huffington Post lists 17 more celebrity children who are getting into showbiz themselves:
  • Maude and Iris Apatow, daughters of Judd Apatow and Leslie
...

Crowds Love Jack Reacher, But Hobbit Still Wins

Judd Apatow's 'This Is 40' takes 3rd at weekend box office

(Newser) - Christmas weekend is weird for Hollywood because movies often gain traction as the holiday week goes on, the New York Times reports. Still, the box office looks plausible enough: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey held onto first with $36.7 million, ahead of Jack Reacher ($15.6 million) and Judd...

Apatow Gets Personal, Whiny in This is 40
 Apatow Gets 
 Personal, Whiny 
 in This is 40 
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Dec 21, 2012 8:32 AM CST

Apatow Gets Personal, Whiny in This is 40

Critics split on honest, bruising marriage comedy

(Newser) - Judd Apatow is back with This is 40, a sort-of sequel to Knocked Up in that it stars supporting characters Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann). It's also clearly about Apatow's life—Mann is his real-life wife, and his kids are cast as the couple's kids....

Simpsons Episode Apatow Wrote 22 Years Ago to Air

He wrote it as his first comedy project

(Newser) - When Judd Apatow was a new comedy writer, the first thing he wrote was a spec script for the Simpsons. Some 22 years later, it has gotten the green-light, he revealed yesterday on Conan O'Brien's web series, Serious Jibber-Jabber . The plotline involves a hypnotized Homer thinking he's...

How Maude Apatow Became a Twitter Celebrity by 14

Judd's kid has some high-profile fans

(Newser) - Maude Apatow is just 14 years old, and though she's appeared in some of her dad Judd's movies, she's not exactly a child star. She's more focused on starting high school than starting a career—"It'll be OK," she predicts in a New ...

Bridesmaids Is Biggest Video-On-Demand Film

Kristen Wiig comedy snags another record

(Newser) - It's official: Bridesmaids has become the most popular video-on-demand movie ever, with 4.8 million rentals in four months, says the Hollywood Reporter . It's just the latest record for the sometimes raunchy female comedy, which is also the top-grossing movie in its genre ever made—$288 million worldwide....

Pee-Wee Herman, Judd Apatow Team Up

Paul Reubens made an appearance at Comic-Con as Pee-Wee Herman

(Newser) - Pee-wee Herman hopes to take his act back on the road for a new big-screen adventure. Paul Reubens told an audience at the Comic-Con fan convention yesterday that he's working with Hollywood comedy powerhouse Judd Apatow to produce a new movie. Reubens appeared in character as Pee-wee, with his...

Lindsay Flashes Sense of Humor in Celebrity Ad
 Lindsay Flashes Sense 
 of Humor in Celebrity Ad 
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Oct 30, 2010 5:57 PM CDT

Lindsay Flashes Sense of Humor in Celebrity Ad

She joins lots of others in spot for Jewish group

(Newser) - A new public-service spot by Judd Apatow for the American Jewish World Service features everyone from Jerry Seinfeld to Triumph the Insult Dog to Helen Hunt. But PopEater is most tickled in the Funny or Die ad by the appearance of Lindsay Lohan, who shows a sense of humor about...

Jennifer Aniston to Go Topless

Maybe this will boost the box office?

(Newser) - From a bust at the box office to a ... bust. Jennifer Aniston will go topless in her next role, and it gets more risque from there. The actress has signed on to Judd Apatow's Wanderlust, in which she'll play a "free-loving" married woman (to hubby Paul Rudd) who moves...

Judd Apatow Producing New Pee-Wee Movie

Sequel is in the works for Universal

(Newser) - Great news for the many devoted fans of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure: He's going on a new one, and Judd Apatow is producing. So reports Nikke Finke at Deadline Hollywood , who says Apatow is developing the movie sequel for Universal. He apparently was wowed by Paul Reubens' Pee-Wee show on Broadway...

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