Catherine Keener

"I don't remember anything," grinned Max Records, the 12-year-old star of the Spike Jonze adaptation of Sendak's supposedly unfilmable book. "Because I was probably like 1 and a half years old, having my parents read it to me." "I think it's strange that your parents read that to you when you were 1 and a half," actress Catherine Keener ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") said to Records, perhaps because she plays his mother in the film. "Especially considering that people have perceived [the book] as being potentially scary to children."

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"The movies that we talked about at the very beginning - 'Wizard of Oz' and 'Black Stallion' and 'My Life as a Dog' and '400 Blows' - were about childhood and did it from a child's-eye view as opposed to more like, I call them confections," Eggers said over lunch recently with the director and actors Max Records (who plays Max) and Catherine Keener (who plays his mom) in a downtown hotel. "It wasn't like we were making this anti-kids movie," said Jonze, whose bright green crew-neck sweater was as pristine as Eggers' San Francisco Giants' baseball cap was dirty. "We were working from the inside out in terms of what we wanted it to feel like, as opposed to the outside in in terms of what shelf it was going to go on in the video store."

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"They must be coming to see the other people," he said, referring to guests like Mr. Kushner, Meryl Streep, James Gandolfini, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers and Catherine Keener.

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"What's great about working on these Judd movies is that we all bring a part of ourselves out in our characters," explained Jason Segel, who hopes to have kicked off the Second Summer of Apatow with "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." "That's part of why these movies work." "It was much more collaborative than I had anticipated," insisted Segel's leading lady, Kristen Bell, who follows in a tradition of unorthodox Apatow objects of affection that also includes Catherine Keener and Katherine Heigl. "We do a lot of improv rehearsals in the beginning that they videotape ... [then] you're sitting next to Jonah Hill, and it's really difficult to come up with the funniest thing in the room, but I think I contributed. It's really a neat process to be involved with, because you have to come in with a lot of decisions about your character, but also you have to come completely game to change anything."

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"Weeds," "Dexter," "Brotherhood," Californication," and "The L Word (R)". Shows that have yet to debut on the network --"The Tudors Season 2," "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union," "This American Life Season 2," and a new television film "An American Crime," starring Catherine Keener (CAPOTE) and Ellen Page (JUNO) -- will roll out throughout the campaign season as they become available. "This year's Primetime Emmy campaign initiative was driven by a goal to create a new and unique way for voters to view Showtime's eligible programming anywhere in the U.S," said Richard Licata, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications for Showtime. "Rob Hayes, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Showtime Digital Media, suggested we collaborate with the creative minds at Brightcove -- a win-win not only for Showtime and its programming but for the thousands who will enjoy this cutting edge TV/internet experience. This will eliminate the enormous amount of packaging which has inundated members and ultimately ends up in our landfills,"

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Any kid fears about the movie being too intense actually could be parents' fears, said "Being John Malkovich" co-star Catherine Keener, who plays Max's mother. "I totally think the parents are more afraid. They're projecting a lot of stuff,"

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As Mary Westin (Catherine Keener), Lopez's editor and ex-wife says, "The stock price drops, we lose reporters. The stock price drops again, we lose more reporters. "

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"The Soloist" weren't limited to the screen. "The first day on set," said Catherine Keener, who plays Lopez's ex-wife, "we had this circle meeting, where the actors were upfront and everybody else was all around, all the denizens, and Downey, of course, sat in the middle. When they got to him, he says, 'I'm Robert Downey, cell block number ... ' and they all just melted."

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