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Just at the time when an "Apatonian Film" began to take on certain connotations - gross-out humour, pot smoke, full-frontal male nudity - writer-director Judd Apatow changed the formula with Funny People , his autobiographical third feature out this weekend on DVD.

I am - " Hercules!! An FX sitcom about a fantasy football league created and written by Jeff Schaffer and his hot former d-girl wife Jackie Marcus Schaffer, "The League" stars Paul Scheer , Nick Kroll and Leslie Bibb .

The Fulfillment Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to helping promising yet disadvantaged students graduate from high school and complete college, will honor Director/Writer/Producer Judd Apatow and his wife, actress Leslie Mann, at its STARS 2009 Benefit Gala, Monday, October 26, 2009 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Judd Apatow has become the twenty first century version of the Mack Sennett comedy studios.

Buy a croc. Give a croc. LACOSTE, known worldwide for its crocodile embroidered apparel, has partnered again with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation to find the cure for breast cancer.

Where do you go after the general raunch of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up? For wunderkind director Judd Apatow, there was always going to come a time when he needed to break out from the genre he'd placed himself in.

FILMED in eye-popping 3-D, the gleefully gory fourth instalment of the Final Destination series, from director David R Ellis, sees bodily parts flying all over the screen, accompanied by fountains of blood and the occasional one-liner. Bobby Campo plays the lead who saves his friends and other bystanders from certain death at a speedway track, then ...

IN 2004, Adam Sandler was king of comedy and Judd Apatow was a nobody. Just five years later, it's Judd's name being used to sell the pair's latest film Funny People .

Judd Apatow has problems a ' but don't doubt his talent, or take lightly his claim that no one has influenced him more than John Cassavetes At 146 minutes, the new Judd Apatow film, Funny People, is about three-quarters of an hour fat a ' and then it ends with a cop-out tame enough to make you despair.

In the three movies Judd Apatow has directed, his wife, Leslie Mann, has taken on progressively larger roles.

In the three movies Judd Apatow has directed, his wife, Leslie Mann, has taken on progressively larger roles.

Despite her conventional good looks, Leslie Mann has gravitated toward some very unconventional characters, and her latest role is no exception.

FUNNY PEOPLE Comic George Simmons opens a big can of not-so-funny when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

"Funny People" ; Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, and Jason Schwartzman; Director: Judd Apatow; Rated: R Movie Review: The jokes keep coming long after they have worn a hole into the bucket's lead-coated bottom.

Judd Apatow, successful writer and director of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Bad Boys" and "Knocked Up," has taken a more serious approach to comedy, this time exploring the comedians behind the jokes.

Funny People vs. Hannah and Her Sisters. The print ad for Funny People shows Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann leaning affectionately on Adam Sandler's shoulders, all of them sporting silly grins.

Wildly successful comedian/film star George Simmons learns he has leukemia. "A rough road ahead of you," says Dr.

Mann, married to director Judd Apatow, likes to play characters that aren't "acceptable." "You have to see this picture," Leslie Mann says with a smirk as she taps at her BlackBerry.

Using humor to deal with life is a common defense. The problem is that hiding behind a humorous remark can be isolating and if done often enough will hamper the person's emotional growth.

As pervasive as producer/ director Judd Apatow's name has become in recent years, it is easy to forget just how strong his directorial work is.