Judd Apatow’s Married Blues & Macklemore’s Gay Anthem

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen talks with Judd Apatow, the writer, director, producer behind some of the funniest movies of the last decade, about why his new film looks so much like his real life. The rapper Macklemore says homophobia in hip-hop is so over. And a new set of educational standards roils high-school English teachers.

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