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You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.

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Judd Apatow
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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