Two of Hollywood’s top filmmakers have new books out, and both, unusually, are compilations of interviews with creative people. Judd Apatow, one of the most influential writer/director/producers of the last twenty years, has written Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy. A true “comedy nerd,” Apatow started pestering performers to let him interview …

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Ben Foster plays Lance Armstrong and Chris O’Dowd plays David Walsh, the Irish journalist who uncovered the story about Armstrong’s use of dope and his lies. Walsh’s book is Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong.

Jimmy Cagney plays George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”  Happy Flag Day!

In 1996, David Lipsky was assigned by Rolling Stone to write a profile of author David Foster Wallace, and so they spent five days together while Wallace was finishing his promotional tour for his book, Infinite Jest. After Wallace committed suicide in 2008, Lipsky published a book about their time together called Although Of Course …

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Of course the dinosaurs and the geniuses at ILM who created them are the real stars of “Jurassic World.”  But the highest compliment we can pay the human performers is that they can hold their own next to the CGI dinos.  If they look familiar, it may be because you’ve seen them before. Nick Robinson …

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