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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Before he was directing box office hits or launching the careers of comedy superstars, Judd Apatow was a kid writing fan letters to his heroes, collecting autographs, and obsessively documenting everything. He’s now opened his personal archive for a new book of photographs, letters, scripts, and journals that shaped movies like ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ ‘Knocked Up,’ and ‘Trainwreck.’
Also, we hear from Misty Copeland, who captivated audiences as the first Black woman to become a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. She also performed with Prince, who helped change her perception of herself. “He was my biggest supporter. He showed what it was the be one of a kind, to be unique and to use that as a power.”
Ken Tucker celebrates 50 years of Patti Smith’s album ‘Horses.’
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| 0:27.9 | box office hits or launching the careers of comedy superstars, he was a kid writing fan letters to his |
| 0:34.2 | heroes, collecting autographs and obsessively documenting everything. |
| 0:38.5 | He's now opened his personal archives for a new book of photographs, letters, scripts, and journals |
| 0:43.8 | that shaped movies like The 40-year-old Virgin, knocked up in train wreck. Also, we hear from |
| 0:50.0 | Misty Copeland, who captivated audiences as the first black woman to become a principal dancer |
| 0:55.2 | with the American Ballet Theater. She also performed with Prince, who helped change her |
| 1:00.3 | perception of herself. He was my biggest supporter. He showed me what it was to be one-of-a-kind, |
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