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Judd Apatow profiled in USAT

Susan Wloszczyna interviewed Judd Apatow for USA Today. Apatow is this generation’s Woody Allen— former standup comic, gets into directing, makes funny movies, one after another, using a revolving cast of actors.

Right now, Apatow is at his apex. He has at least nine movie projects in various stages of readiness, from the biopic spoof “Walk Hard” with John C. Reilly to onetime roommate Adam Sandler‘s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.” The list also includes “Year One,” a film co-written and directed by one of Apatow’s idols, Harold Ramis of “Animal House” and “Ghostbusters” fame.

Former standup comic makes good… very good. All that and the AMPAS folks won’t let him join. Comics– even critically claimed, movie-directing comics– can’t get no respect.