145-509: Judd Apatow ( / ˈ æ p ə t aʊ / ; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian, best known for his work in comedy films. He is the founder of Apatow Productions , through which he produced and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022). Through Apatow Productions he produced and developed
290-723: A 2.5 square mile area around each USC campus. The Department of Public Safety headquarters is on the University Park campus, and there are substations in the University Village and on the Health Sciences campus. The department operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. All USC Public Safety Officers are required to be police academy graduates so that under California Penal Code statute they can be granted peace officer power of arrest authority while on duty, enforce state laws and local city municipal codes, and investigate crimes. DPS
435-450: A Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy Movie, a People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Movie and was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year. That same year, he produced Girls after seeing Lena Dunham 's 2010 film Tiny Furniture . The series ran from 2012 to 2017 and generating criticism over its depiction of sexual assault, male ejaculate, and Dunham's frequent on-screen nudity. In
580-463: A January 2013 interview in Fast Company , Apatow and Dunham discussed the creative process of working on the show, saying that "this type of show is an auteur's vision. It isn't collaborative in the same way as other shows. We are probably closer to Curb Your Enthusiasm than we are to something like Friends ." Apatow produced Wanderlust (2012), starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd as
725-411: A budget of $ 5 million, it grossed $ 56.4 million worldwide. A New York Times review described the movie as "a joyous, generous-hearted romantic comedy that, even as it veers into difficult terrain, insists that we just need to keep on laughing" while revitalizing "the often moribund romantic comedy subgenre with a true story of love, death and the everyday comedy of being a 21st-century American". In 2018,
870-590: A cameo role in The Disaster Artist (2017), which chronicles the making of the film The Room . The New Yorker critic Richard Brody felt the role was a "reminder" that Apatow should play a lead in one of his own films. Along with documentarian Michael Bonfiglio, Apatow co-directed the documentary May It Last: A Portrait Of The Avett Brothers , which chronicles the making of the titular band's album True Sadness . It aired on HBO in January 2018 and later won
1015-484: A charity of Apatow's choosing and past charities have included St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , 826LA and Alzheimer's Association . During his work on the Larry Sanders Show , Apatow was nominated for five Emmys , as well as a Critics' Choice Television Award . In 2007, he was nominated for a Grammy for co-writing the song "Walk Hard" (nominated for Best Song Written for Motion Picture). Apatow's work
1160-572: A consulting producer and staff writer for the animated show The Critic , starring Jon Lovitz . In 1995, Apatow co-wrote (with Steve Brill) the feature film Heavyweights . Around the same time, Apatow was hired to produce and do an uncredited re-write of the script for the movie The Cable Guy , which was released in 1996 to mixed reviews. It was during the pre-production of the film that Apatow met his future wife, actress Leslie Mann . Apatow did uncredited re-writes on two other Jim Carrey films: Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty . His next script
1305-568: A faculty of 10. Its first graduating class in 1884 was a class of three: two males and a female valedictorian . USC students and athletes are known as Trojans, epitomized by the Trojan Shrine , nicknamed "Tommy Trojan", near the center of campus. Until 1912, USC students (especially athletes) were known as Fighting Methodists or Wesleyans, though neither name was approved by the university. Tommy’s sword has been stolen so frequently that instead of replacing it with an expensive brass one each time, he
1450-436: A festival of un-aired TV pilots produced by Un-Cabaret . In 2004, Apatow produced the feature film comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy , starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay . The film was a box office success. Apatow co-produced the 2013 sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues . He made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with the comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin , which he also co-wrote with
1595-461: A great deal of the surrounding city, and many of the older nonuniversity structures within the new boundaries were leveled. Most of the Pereira buildings were constructed in the 1970s. Pereira maintained a predominantly red-brick architecture for the new buildings, but infused them with his trademark technomodernism stylings. More recently under President C. L. Max Nikias , the architectural orientation of
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#17328560722951740-488: A guy and so it leaned guy for a while. But one of the projects I'm most proud of is Freaks and Geeks , which is about a woman in high school struggling to figure out which group she wants to belong to, so for me, it goes back and forth." The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rejected his first application for membership, even though he was sponsored by Academy Award -winning screenwriters Akiva Goldsman and Stephen Gaghan . Seth Rogen claimed Apatow "just wanted
1885-555: A long hiatus to headline a show in New York City's Carnegie Hall called Judd Apatow and Friends . He announced over Twitter that the show would benefit Everytown for Gun Safety , a non-profit organization founded by Michael Bloomberg which advocates for gun control and against gun violence. In 2016, he created the Netflix television comedy series Love , on which he also serves as a writer and executive producer. The series followed
2030-736: A married couple who leave New York City and live in a hippie commune. He also produced The Five-Year Engagement (2012), featuring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple who have a rocky five-year engagement. Apatow's fourth directorial effort, the Knocked Up spin-off This Is 40 , was released by Universal Pictures on December 21, 2012, starring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann as the characters Pete and Debbie (reprising their roles from Knocked Up ) and had original music by Graham Parker and The Rumour (who play themselves). The film received mostly positive reactions from critics, with The New Yorker ' s Richard Brody writing that This Is 40
2175-493: A number of years prior to 1972, it was called The School of Architecture and Fine Art. The School of Fine Art (known as SOFA for a number of years after Architecture and Fine Art separated) was eventually named the Roski School of Fine Arts in 2006 during a ceremony to open the then-new Masters of Fine Art building, which occupies the previous and completely refurbished Lucky Blue Jean factory. This small department grew rapidly with
2320-481: A pilot that featured Jason Segel , Kevin Hart , Seth Rogen , Phil Hendrie , and Judge Reinhold (playing himself). The pilot was not picked up by ABC. In 2002, he co-wrote (with Brent Forrester ) a Fox pilot titled Life on Parole , starring David Herman as a dissatisfied parole officer whose roommate happens to be one of his parolees; it was not picked up. Apatow has screened and introduced them at "The Other Network",
2465-688: A platform to continue to perform and speak. In 2017, Apatow was awarded the ACLU Bill of Rights Award, for being "an outspoken and tireless advocate on behalf of women in the arts". Apatow regularly performs stand-up at the Largo at the Coronet , a comedy venue in Los Angeles, as part of his Judd Apatow and Friends series. Guests have included Adam Sandler , Zach Galifianakis , Ryan Adams , Beck , David Spade , Garry Shandling and Jackson Browne . Each show benefits
2610-536: A praying mantis. University of Southern California The University of Southern California ( USC , SC , Southern Cal ) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California , United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney , it is the oldest private research university in California, and has an enrollment of more than 49,000 students. The university is composed of one liberal arts school,
2755-451: A president, a provost , several vice-presidents of various departments, a treasurer, a chief information officer , and an athletic director . The current president is Carol Folt who on July 1, 2019, succeeded Board of Trustee member Wanda Austin who had been appointed the interim president by the board when the former president C. L. Max Nikias resigned in 2018. The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences,
2900-586: A real-estate developer, and Tamara Shad, who ran the music label Mainstream Records founded by her father, Bob Shad , Judd Apatow was born in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens , and raised in Syosset, New York , on Long Island . His family is Jewish , but nonreligious . Apatow has an older brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Mia. Their mother died in 2008. His maternal grandmother, Molly, co-starred in his film This Is 40 . When Apatow
3045-587: A review for The A.V. Club , Erik Adams wrote "There is a feeling that somewhere, somehow, someone is going to stumble-upon Career Suicide, and it's going to make them feel less alone." Apatow also starred in his first stand-up special, Judd Apatow: The Return , in December 2017. The special was recorded during the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal , Canada the previous July and released through Netflix. Apatow also had
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#17328560722953190-524: A select number of undergraduates who wish to pursue dance as their major. This four-year professional degree is housed in the state-of-the-art Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center . In 2015, USC established the Bovard College, which offers graduate-level programs in Human Resource Management, Project Management, and Criminal Justice. The college is named after Emma Bovard, who was one of
3335-486: A sports doctor ( Bill Hader ), after a string of one-night stands with different men. The Atlantic 's Christopher Orr opined that "this is a film that belongs not to its director but to its star, who, if there is any justice in the world, is about to ascend from cult icon to mass phenomenon." The film received an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Produced on a budget of $ 35 million, Trainwreck grossed $ 140.8 million worldwide. In November 2017, Apatow returned to stand-up after
3480-465: A supporting role as a police officer and friend Jonah Hill took his role as the high school student. Apatow credits Rogen for influencing him to make his work more "outrageously dirty". In August 2007, Superbad opened at No. 1 in the box office to critical acclaim, taking in $ 33 million in its opening weekend. Industry insiders claimed Apatow was now a brand unto himself, creating movies geared toward older audiences, who would watch his movies even when
3625-474: A total enrollment of roughly 47,500 students, of which 20,000 are at the undergraduate and 27,500 at the graduate and professional levels. Approximately 53% of students are female and 47% are male. For the entering first-year class in 2020, 43% of incoming students are drawn from California, 42% from the rest of the United States, and 15% from abroad. USC's student body encompasses 12,300 international students,
3770-404: A young couple navigating the thrills and agonies of modern relationships, and ran on Netflix for three seasons. Later that year, HBO picked up Crashing , a semi-autobiographical television series which follows Pete Holmes as he tries to become a stand-up comedian after his wife cheats on him. It's only with the help of other famous comedians (playing fictional versions of themselves) that Pete
3915-502: Is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation , USC spent $ 891 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 23rd in the nation. USC employs approximately 4,706 full-time faculty, 1,816 part-time faculty, 16,614 staff members, and 4,817 student workers. 350 postdoctoral fellows are supported along with over 800 medical residents. Among
4060-409: Is "the stuff of life, and it flows like life, and, like life, it would be good for it to last longer." In 2012, Entertainment Weekly reported that 22 years after writing an episode of The Simpsons , Apatow's script (" Bart's New Friend ") was being developed into an episode that would air in 2015. Apatow co-produced Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , which was released December 18, 2013, with
4205-592: Is a full-service community hospital offering advanced cardiovascular services including cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and open-heart surgery. Los Angeles County has designated it as both a heart attack receiving center and a comprehensive stroke center, as well as an Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics. The hospital also offers a variety of surgical services in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, obstetrics, gynecology, and cancer care, plus physical rehabilitation and many other medical specialties. USC physicians serve more than one million patients each year. USC
4350-522: Is able to learn the ropes of the stand-up comedy world. The series was created by and stars comedian Pete Holmes, and executive produced by Apatow. It was first reported in 2010 that Apatow would be producing a new Pee-wee Herman film starring Paul Reubens that would be written by Rebuens and Paul Rust . The film, Pee-wee's Big Holiday , was released by Netflix in March 2016. Apatow made his first documentary piece in 2016, Doc and Darryl , which documents
4495-564: Is also home to the USC School of Pharmacy and several research buildings such as USC/Norris Cancer Research Tower, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute , Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower and Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research. The Keck Hospital of USC is ranked No. 7 out of 420 hospitals in the State of California and ranks in
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4640-466: Is among the top 35 largest university library systems in the United States. The Leavey Library is the undergraduate library and is open 24 hours a day. The newly open basement has many discussion tables for students to share thoughts and have group discussions. The Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library is the main research library on campus. USC was ranked 22nd in U.S. News & World Report ' s 2020 annual ranking of national universities. In
4785-403: Is an American film and television production company founded by Judd Apatow in 1999. The company's first television production was the comedy series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and its first film production was the comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Frequent collaborators include Adam McKay , Will Ferrell , Seth Rogen , and Jason Segel . The current logo consists of
4930-585: Is classified as "comprehensive" and offers 134 master's, doctoral, and professional degrees through twenty professional schools. USC is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges . USC's academic departments fall either under the general liberal arts and sciences of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences for undergraduates, the Graduate School for graduates, or
5075-801: Is no time for grown-ups." In 2010, Apatow served as producer on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off Get Him to the Greek with Russell Brand reprising his role and Jonah Hill returning from the original film, albeit as a different character. Released by Universal, the film did well at the box office, grossing $ 92 million. In 2011, Apatow produced Bridesmaids which grossed $ 288.4 million worldwide and received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress ( Melissa McCarthy ) and Best Original Screenplay ( Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig ), as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Bridesmaids also won
5220-413: Is not committed to any specific studio, but his projects are typically set up at Universal and Sony , and in 2009 Variety reported that Universal had signed him to a 3 picture directing deal. Apatow once vowed to include a penis in every one of his movies. He explained his position as, "I like movies that are, you know, uplifting and hopeful...and I like filth!" In 2009, Apatow served as producer for
5365-448: Is now provided with a wooden one. During a fateful track and field meet with Stanford University , the USC team was beaten early and seemingly conclusively. After only the first few events, it seemed implausible USC would ever win, but the team fought back, winning many of the later events, to lose only by a slight margin. After this contest, Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen Bird reported
5510-580: Is operated and managed by the university. Most buildings are in the Romanesque Revival style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physical sciences labs are of various Modernist styles (especially two large Brutalist dormitories at the campus's northern edge) that sharply contrast with the predominantly red-brick campus. Widney Alumni House, built in 1880, is the oldest university building in Southern California. In recent years
5655-585: Is overseen by an independent advisory board of 21 faculty, staff, student and community members appointed by the USC President. The board reviews DPS performance, stop, and misconduct data, and conducts periodic assessments of DPS policies, practices, and operational performance. The department has a formal working relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which includes USC paying for newly hired Public Safety Officers to attend
5800-458: Is served by several rapid transit stations. The Metro E Line light rail service between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica wraps around the south and eastern edges of the University Park campus. The E Line has three stations in the vicinity of the USC main campus: Jefferson/USC Station , Expo Park/USC Station , and Vermont/Expo Station . The Metro J Line bus service serves both the University Park campus at 37th Street/USC station and
5945-744: Is staffed by USC faculty from the Keck School of Medicine , and is often referred to as USC's third campus. USC also operates an Orange County center in Irvine for business, pharmacy, social work, and education, and the Information Sciences Institute , with centers in Arlington, Virginia , and Marina del Rey . For its science students, USC operates the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island just 20 miles (32 km) off
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6090-483: Is the official representative government of the undergraduate students at USC. It consists of a popularly elected president and vice president who lead an appointed executive cabinet, a popularly elected legislative branch, and judicial oversight. The executive cabinet oversees funding, communications, programming, and advocacy work. All USG activities are funded by the student activity fee. In addition to USG, residents within university housing are represented and governed by
6235-636: The Niche Best Colleges rankings, USC ranked 19th overall for 2020 based on academics and quality of student life. USC is ranked 32nd among national universities in the U.S. and 55th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities , and 13th (tied with seven other universities) among national universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance. In 2015, USA Today ranked USC 22nd overall for American universities based on data from College Factual. Among top 25 universities, USC
6380-600: The Annenberg Center for Communication and a later additional gift of $ 100 million for the USC Annenberg School for Communication ; $ 112.5 million from Alfred Mann to establish the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering ; $ 110 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation for USC's School of Medicine ; $ 150 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation for USC's School of Medicine ; $ 175 million from George Lucas to
6525-517: The Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences , and 22 undergraduate , graduate , and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 post-graduate students from all fifty U.S. states and more than 115 countries. It is a member of the Association of American Universities , which it joined in 1969. USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in
6670-535: The Glorya Kaufman School of Dance , the university's first new school in forty years, which was a gift from philanthropist Glorya Kaufman . The USC Kaufman School offers individual classes in technique, performance, choreography, production, theory and history open to all students at USC. In the fall of 2015, the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance began to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree to
6815-569: The Integrated Media Systems Center and the Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems . The Department of Homeland Security selected USC as its first Homeland Security Center of Excellence. Since 1991, USC has been the headquarters of the NSF and USGS funded Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). The University of Southern California is a founding and charter member of CENIC ,
6960-682: The Interactive Media & Games Division of the School of Cinematic Arts and the CS Games program in the Department of Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2015 ranked USC's combined departments of engineering and computer sciences as 10th in the world, social sciences 31st, and economics and business departments 29th. USC has
7105-560: The Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center , which is one of the nation's largest teaching hospitals, the campus includes three patient care facilities: USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center , Keck Hospital of USC , and the USC Eye Institute. USC faculty staffs these and many other hospitals in Southern California, including the internationally acclaimed Children's Hospital Los Angeles . The health sciences campus
7250-692: The Marshall School of Business tied for 17th with the USC Leventhal School of Accounting 7th and the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 9th; the Keck School of Medicine of USC was ranked tied for 30th in research and tied for 53rd in primary care, the Viterbi School of Engineering 9th, the Rossier School of Education 12th, the Roski School of Fine Arts graduate program 69th,
7395-778: The Marx Brothers . Apatow got his comic start washing dishes at the Long Island East Side Comedy Club, and while attending Syosset High School , he played jazz and hosted a program called Comedy Club on the school's 125-watt radio station WKWZ which he created as a way to meet and learn from comedians he admired. He cold-called comedians during period, managing to interview Steve Allen , Howard Stern , Harold Ramis and John Candy , along with emerging comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld , Steven Wright , and Garry Shandling . Apatow began performing stand-up comedy at age seventeen, during his senior year of high school. In
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#17328560722957540-653: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten Conference . Members of USC's sports teams, the Trojans , have won 107 NCAA team championships and 412 NCAA individual championships. As of 2021, Trojan athletes have won 326 medals at the Olympic Games ( 153 golds, 96 silvers, and 77 bronzes ), more than any other American university. USC has had 571 football players drafted to
7685-533: The National Football League , the second-highest number of draftees in the country. The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert Maclay Widney , who helped secure donations from several key figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs ; an Irish Catholic former governor, John Gately Downey ; and a German Jewish banker, Isaias Wolf Hellman . The three donated 308 acres to establish
7830-538: The Sol Price School of Public Policy 3rd, the USC School of Social Work 25th, and the USC School of Pharmacy tied for 9th. USC's graduate programs in occupational therapy and physical therapy are ranked the nation's 1st and 4th best programs, respectively, for 2021 by U.S. News & World Report . The Philosophical Gourmet Report in 2015 ranked USC's graduate philosophy program as 8th nationally. The Hollywood Reporter ranked
7975-472: The USC School of Cinema-Television , now renamed USC School of Cinematic Arts , $ 200 million from Dana and David Dornsife for USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to support undergraduate and PhD programs, $ 110 million from John and Julie Mork for undergraduate scholarships, and $ 200 million from Larry Ellison to launch the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine. In 1999, USC purchased
8120-652: The University Park campus, USC's Health Sciences campus is a major center for basic and clinical biomedical research in the fields of cancer , gene therapy , the neurosciences , and transplantation biology , among others. The 79-acre (32 ha) campus is home to the region's first and oldest medical and pharmacy schools, as well as acclaimed programs in nurse anesthesiology, occupational therapy , physical therapy , physician assistant, and pharmacy which are respectively ranked No. 11, No. 5, No. 6, No. 20, No. 12 by U.S. News & World Report in 2024. In addition to
8265-547: The Writers Guild of America and received four MTV Movie Award nominations, including a win for Carell for Best Comedic Performance. In 2005, Apatow co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller the feature film comedy Fun with Dick and Jane starring Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni . The film went on to gross $ 205 million worldwide. His second film, the romantic comedy Knocked Up , was released in June 2007 to wide critical acclaim. Apatow wrote
8410-444: The interquartile (middle 50%) range of SAT scores was 670-740 for evidence-based reading and writing, 680-790 for math, and 1370-1520 for the composite. The middle 50% ACT score range was 28-34 for math, 32-35 for English, and 31-34 for the composite. USC was ranked the 10th most applied to university in the nation for fall 2014 by U.S. News & World Report . Admission is need-blind for domestic applicants. The university
8555-488: The six major Hadith collections . Although the project currently parked, the referencing remains widely used throughout the Internet. USC is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as "Most Selective," and Princeton Review rates its admissions selectivity of 98 out of 99. Over 70,000 students applied for admission to the undergraduate class entering in 2021, with 12% being admitted. Among enrolled freshman for Fall 2019,
8700-911: The "Highly Cited" in the Institute for Scientific Information database. George Olah won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and was the founding director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute . Leonard Adleman won the Turing Award in 2003. Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . The university also supports the Pacific Council on International Policy through joint programming, leadership collaboration, and facilitated connections among students, faculty, and Pacific Council members. The university has two National Science Foundation –funded Engineering Research Centers:
8845-1365: The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. The USC Digital Library provides a wealth of primary and original source material in a variety of formats. In October 2010, the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives , the largest repository for documents from the LGBT community in the world, became a part of the USC Libraries system. The collections at ONE include over two million archival items documenting LGBT history including periodicals; books; film, video and audio recordings; photographs; artworks; ephemera, such clothing, costumes, and buttons; organizational records; and personal paper. USC's 22 libraries and other archives hold nearly 4 million printed volumes, 6 million items in microform , and 3 million photographs and subscribe to more than 30,000 current serial titles, nearly 44,000 feet (13,000 m) of manuscripts and archives, and subscribe to over 120 electronic databases and more than 14,000 journals in print and electronic formats. Annually, reference transactions number close to 50,000 and approximately 1,100 instructional presentations are made to 16,000 participants. The University of Southern California Library system
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#17328560722958990-477: The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit organization, which provides extremely high-performance Internet-based networking to California's K-20 research and education community. USC researcher Jonathan Postel was an editor of communications-protocol for the fledgling internet, also known as ARPANET , for which USC was one of the earliest nodes. In July 2016, USC became home to
9135-1046: The Graduate School, and the twenty professional schools are each led by an academic dean . USC occasionally awards emeritus titles to former administrators. There are six administrators emeriti. The University of Southern California's twenty professional schools include the USC Leventhal School of Accounting , USC School of Architecture , USC Roski School of Art and Design, USC Iovine and Young Academy , USC Marshall School of Business , USC School of Cinematic Arts , USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism , USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance , Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC , USC School of Dramatic Arts , USC Rossier School of Education , USC Viterbi School of Engineering , USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology , USC Gould School of Law , Keck School of Medicine of USC , USC Thornton School of Music , USC School of Pharmacy , USC Bovard College, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy , and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work . The Undergraduate Student Government (USG)
9280-481: The Greek (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Begin Again (2013), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and The Big Sick (2017). Throughout his career, Apatow has received nominations for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards (three wins), five Writers Guild of America Awards (one win), two Producers Guild of America Awards , one Golden Globe Award , and one Grammy Award . The middle of three children of Maury Apatow,
9425-512: The Head , a multi-camera sitcom pilot starring David Krumholtz as a psychiatrist on his first day on the job, Amy Poehler as a suicidal patient, and Kevin Corrigan as Krumholtz's slacker roommate. The show was not picked up by Fox, which freed up Apatow to serve as an executive producer of the award-winning series Freaks and Geeks , which debuted in 1999. He also wrote and directed several episodes of
9570-555: The Health Sciences campus at LA General Medical Center station . In addition, both campuses are served by several Metro and municipal bus routes. Chaffey College was founded in 1883 in the city of Ontario, California , as an agricultural college branch campus of USC under the name of Chaffey College of Agriculture of the University of Southern California. USC ran the Chaffey College of Agriculture until financial troubles closed
9715-404: The No. 3 school to study undergraduate business in the nation, as of 2015 . In 2015, Forbes ranked the USC Marshall School of Business 3rd in the nation in producing graduates who are most satisfied with their jobs. The Princeton Review ranked USC video game design program as 1st out of 150 schools in North America. The university's video game design programs are interdisciplinary, involving
9860-441: The Producers Guild of America, alongside producing partner Barry Mendel. Earlier that year, Apatow produced Chris Gethard's HBO comedy special Career Suicide, an hour and a half long monologue about Gethard's experience with depression, therapy and search for fulfillment. The program was described as being able to "articulate intense and often ineffable emotion" while still remaining "brazenly candid...and packed with great jokes". In
10005-461: The Rape Treatment Foundation, who later released a statement on Apatow's contributions, describing him as "a powerful voice for the truths about rape and an advocate for respectful treatment of victims". Apatow has positioned himself at the forefront of the #MeToo and #TimesUp online movements, encouraging alleged victims to come forward while also criticizing people accused. Apatow had strong words for people like Bill Cosby and those who gave Cosby
10150-676: The Residential Housing Association (RHA), which is divided by residence hall. The Graduate Student Government (GSG) consists of senators elected by the students of each school proportional to its enrollment and its activities are funded by a graduate and professional student activity fee. The USC Department of Public Safety (DPS) is one of the largest campus law enforcement agencies in the United States, currently employing over 300 full-time personnel, including approximately 96 armed Public Safety Officers, 120 unarmed Community Service Officers, 60 CCTV monitors and dispatchers, and 30 part-time student workers. DPS's patrol and response jurisdiction includes
10295-425: The SXSW Audience Award at the SXSW film festival. Later in 2018, he directed another HBO documentary, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling , exploring the life and legacy of comedian Garry Shandling , one of Apatow's idols and a close friend. After editing together video packages for Garry Shandling's memorial service, Apatow realized that the material was worthy of a full documentary. NPR 's David Bianculi called
10440-522: The School for Communication in 1994, features a core curriculum that requires students to devote themselves equally to print, broadcast and online media for the first year of study. The journalism school consistently ranks among the nation's top undergraduate journalism schools. USC's Annenberg School's endowment rose from $ 7.5 million to $ 218 million between 1996 and 2007. In 2015, the new building named for Wallis Annenberg started serving all faculty and students. The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at
10585-514: The School of Cinematic Arts the No. 1 film school in the United States for the third year in a row in 2014. In addition, USA Today ranked the School of Cinematic Arts the No. 1 film school in the United States in 2014. The program's range of classes, facilities, and close proximity to the industry were the primary reasons for this ranking. USA Today ranked the USC Marshall School of Business as
10730-518: The September 1985 issue of Laugh Factory Magazine , he is listed as an associate editor. After graduating from high school in 1985, he moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in the screenwriting program at University of Southern California . While at USC, he organized and hosted a number of on-campus "Comedy Night" events, featuring headliners such as Saturday Night Live performer Kevin Nealon . Apatow introduced
10875-536: The USC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, which both had previously been organized as "Independent Health Professions" programs at the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, were administratively aligned under the School of Dentistry and renamed "Divisions," bringing the total number of Divisions at the School of Dentistry to seven. In 2010, alumnus Herman Ostrow donated $ 35 million to name
11020-611: The USC athletes "fought on like the Trojans of antiquity", and the president of the university at the time, George F. Bovard , approved the name officially. During World War II , USC was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program , which offered students a path to a Navy commission. The University Park campus is in the University Park district of Los Angeles, 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of downtown Los Angeles . Located off exit 20B of Interstate 110 ,
11165-770: The USC faculty, 17 are members of the National Academy of Sciences , 16 are members of the National Academy of Medicine , 37 are members of the National Academy of Engineering , 97 are members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and 34 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 5 to the American Philosophical Society , and 14 to the National Academy of Public Administration . 29 USC faculty are listed as among
11310-584: The University Archives. The USC Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio's first major feature, My Four Years in Germany (1918), to its sale to Seven Arts in 1968. Announced in June 2006,
11455-406: The University Park shopping center, which was demolished in 2014. In September of the same year, the university began construction on USC Village, a 1.25-million-square-foot residential and retail center directly adjacent to USC's University Park campus on 15 acres of land owned by the university. The USC Village has over 130,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, with student housing on
11600-499: The University of Southern California was established in 1897 as The College of Dentistry, and today, awards undergraduate and graduate degrees. Headed by Dean Avishai Sadan, the school traditionally has maintained five Divisions: Academic Affairs & Student Life, Clinical Affairs, Continuing Education, Research, and Community Health Programs and Hospital Affairs. In 2006, the USC Department of Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology , and
11745-675: The Writers Guild East. In 2015, Apatow's film Trainwreck was nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards , including a nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy , the first film directed by Apatow to achieve this feat. The film was also nominated for 3 Critics' Choice Movie Awards , including Best Comedy . In 2016, Apatow was awarded the Generation Award at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal for his contributions to comedy. Apatow Productions The Apatow Company , doing business as Apatow Productions ,
11890-537: The Year 2000 by the Time/Princeton Review College Guide . Roughly half of the university's students volunteer in community-service programs in neighborhoods around campus and throughout Los Angeles. These outreach programs, as well as previous administrations' commitment to remaining in South Los Angeles amid widespread calls to move the campus following the 1965 Watts Riots , are credited for
12035-557: The Zohan , which Sandler and Robert Smigel also co-wrote and went on to gross $ 204 million at the worldwide box office. He tries to keep a low budget on his projects and usually makes his movies about the work itself rather than using big stars. After his success in film, he hired the entire writing staff from Undeclared to write movies for Apatow Productions . He never fires writers and he keeps them on projects through all stages of productions, known colloquially as "the comedy wheel". Apatow
12180-689: The acts at these events with short standup routines of his own. He also began volunteering at (and later producing) benefit concerts for HBO's Comic Relief and performing and seeing standup at the Improv in Hollywood. He dropped out of college during his second year and later moved into an apartment with comedian Adam Sandler , whom he met at the Improv. He competed in the Johnnie Walker Comedy Search in 1989 directed by Saturday Night Live short film producer Neal Marshad . Shortly thereafter, Apatow
12325-472: The alumni have become Pritzker Prize winners. In 2006, Qingyun Ma , a distinguished Shanghai-based architect, was named dean of the school. The Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering is headed by Dean Yannis Yortsos . Previously known as the USC School of Engineering, it was renamed on March 2, 2004, in honor of Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna, who had donated $ 52 million to
12470-641: The biblical comedy film Year One ; the film was not well received. He also released his third directorial feature on July 31 that same year, titled Funny People . Apatow wrote the film, which starred Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen as a pair of standup comedians, one of whom has a terminal illness. Other co-stars included his wife Leslie Mann and Eric Bana , who was a comedic actor in Australia before appearing in American films. The film contained more dramatic elements than Apatow's previous directorial efforts. Although
12615-489: The board of trustees are elected for five-year terms. One-fifth of the Trustees stand for re-election each year, and votes are cast only by the trustees not standing for election. Trustees tend to be high-ranking executives of large corporations (both domestic and international), successful alumni, members of the upper echelons of university administration, or some combination of the three. The university administration consists of
12760-402: The book I Found This Funny published by McSweeneys to benefit 826LA. Additionally, Apatow's book, "Sick in the Head", in which he interviews comedy icons such as Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno, benefitted the 826LA organization. Apatow has also received several high-profile awards for his advocacy and support of women in Hollywood, as well as victims of sexual assault. In 2015, he was honored by
12905-475: The campus and provided the necessary seed money for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that "no student would be denied admission because of race". The university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952. When USC opened in 1880, the school had an enrollment of 53 students and
13050-603: The campus has been renovated to remove the vestiges of old roads and replace them with traditional university quads and gardens. The historic portion of the main campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Besides its main campus at University Park, USC also operates the Health Sciences Campus about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of downtown. In addition, the Children's Hospital Los Angeles
13195-419: The campus has moved towards a Gothic Revival style, taking cues from the scholastic styles of Oxford University and Harvard University , while underpinning USC's own historic identity that is present in the red-brick construction. USC's role in making visible and sustained improvements in the neighborhoods surrounding both the University Park and Health Sciences campuses earned it the distinction of College of
13340-519: The campus's boundaries are Jefferson Boulevard on the north and northeast, Figueroa Street on the southeast, Exposition Boulevard on the south, and Vermont Avenue on the west. Since the 1960s, through-campus vehicle traffic has been either severely restricted or entirely prohibited on some thoroughfares. The University Park campus is within walking distance to Los Angeles landmarks such as the Shrine Auditorium and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , which
13485-517: The career and relationship of New York Mets players Dwight "Doc" Gooden and Darryl Strawberry . It aired as part of ESPN 's series of sports documentaries 30 for 30 in July 2016. In 2017, he produced the romantic comedy The Big Sick . The film stars Kumail Nanjiani as himself, a stand-up comedian who comes from a Muslim Pakistani background and falls in love with an American woman, based on Nanjiani's real-life wife Emily V. Gordon . Produced on
13630-877: The coast of Los Angeles, and home to the Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center. The Price School of Public Policy also runs a satellite campus in Sacramento . A Health Sciences Alhambra campus holds the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program, the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research (IPR), and the Masters in Public Health Program. In 2005, USC established a federal relations office in Washington, DC., and in March 2023, USC announced
13775-401: The college received a $ 200 million gift from USC trustees Dana and David Dornsife on March 23, 2011, after which the college was renamed in their honor, following the naming pattern of other professional schools and departments at the university. All PhD degrees awarded at USC and most master's degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Professional degrees are awarded by each of
13920-419: The documentary, "a deeply affecting TV show about the meaning of life – right up there with the final TV interviews by mythologist Joseph Campbell and British TV writer Dennis Potter . In his comedy, Garry Shandling always was in pursuit of the truth and contemplating real life. With this two-part HBO special, he and Judd Apatow achieved that very beautifully one last time." In September 2018, Apatow took home
14065-467: The facility, which was officially renamed USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. This 40-year-old hospital provides the community a 24-hour emergency department, primary stroke center, maternity/labor and delivery, cardiac rehabilitation, and imaging and diagnostic services. In July 2022, the university acquired the 348 bed Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, California . Renamed USC Arcadia Hospital it
14210-468: The film in 2010 to Apatow, who produced the film alongside Tobin Armbrust and Anthony Bregman whose production company Exclusive Media financed the film's US$ 8 million budget. Apatow's fifth directorial feature was the 2015 romantic comedy entitled Trainwreck . Amy Schumer wrote and starred in the film as "a basket case who tries to rebuild her life" by attempting to commit to a serious relationship with
14355-648: The film itself "a little sexist " and felt it "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys." Apatow responded, "I'm just shocked she used the word shrew . I mean, what is this, the 1600s?" Apatow said the characters in the film "are sexist at times... but it's really about immature people who are afraid of women and relationships and learn to grow up." In 2012, Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress quoted Apatow as saying, "I got bored of penises. I said, 'enough of that.' No, I just like immaturity, I like to show people struggle and try to figure out who they are. I'm
14500-503: The film school, which at the time was the largest single donation to USC (and its fifth over $ 100 million). The donation will be used to build new structures and expand the faculty. The acceptance rate to the School of Cinematic Arts has consistently remained between 4-6% for the past several years. The USC School of Architecture was established in 1916, the first in Southern California . From at least 1972 to 1976, and likely for
14645-659: The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of best Original Screenplay. Additionally it won Best Comedy at the Critics' Choice Awards and received an AFI Movies of the Year Award from the American Film Institute. The film also received two Screen Actors Guild nominations and an NAACP Image Award nomination. Apatow was nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures award by
14790-438: The film was not financially successful (grossing $ 54 million domestically), the critical reception was primarily positive, with David Denby of The New Yorker magazine including the film on his top ten films of 2009, calling Funny People "a serious comedy about a funny man's brush with death" and stating that the film "is Apatow's richest, most complicated movie yet—a summing up of his feelings about comedy and its relation to
14935-440: The film's star, Steve Carell , for Universal Pictures . The film opened at number one at the box office and grossed more than $ 175 million globally. The comedy garnered numerous awards and nominations, including being named one of AFI 's Top Movies of the Year, as well as taking home Best Comedy Movie at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards. The 40-Year-Old Virgin also earned Apatow a nomination for Best Original Screenplay from
15080-498: The films delved into the teen genre. Apatow served as producer and co-writer along with director Jake Kasdan for the biopic spoof Walk Hard starring John C. Reilly , Kristen Wiig and Jenna Fischer , which was released in December 2007. While the film received positive reviews, it did poorly commercially. In 2008, he served as producer for Drillbit Taylor starring Owen Wilson and Leslie Mann and written by Seth Rogen , which opened in March and earned negative reviews. For
15225-491: The first generation in their family to attend any form of college. Twenty-four percent of undergraduates at USC are Pell Grant -eligible, which is defined by having come from a family household income of less than $ 50,000. There are over 375,000 living Trojan alumni . The USC-MSA reference is a numbering system developed by the Muslim Students' Association of the University of Southern California to access their database of
15370-519: The first major studio rom-com with an all LGBTQ cast. The film stars Billy Eichner , Luke Macfarlane , Ts Madison , Monica Raymund , Guillermo Díaz , Guy Branum , and Amanda Bearse . Apatow memorialized the friendship of comics Bob Newhart and Don Rickles in Bob & Don: A Love Story —a 2023 short documentary film featuring interviews with and home movies of both families. In 2007, New York magazine noted that former Apatow associate Mike White
15515-733: The first students to enroll at USC in 1880. The USC Libraries are among the oldest private academic research libraries in California . For more than a century USC has been building collections in support of the university's teaching and research interests. Especially noteworthy collections include American literature , Cinema-Television including the Warner Bros. studio archives, European philosophy , gerontology , German exile literature, international relations , Korean studies , studies of Latin America, natural history , Southern California history, and
15660-534: The four floors above. The $ 700 million project is the biggest development in the history of USC and is also one of the largest in the history of South Los Angeles. With a grand opening held on August 17, 2017, the USC Village includes a Trader Joe's, a Target, a fitness center, restaurants, outdoor dining, 400 retail parking spots, a community room, and housing for 2,700 students. Located three miles (5 km) from downtown Los Angeles and seven miles (11 km) from
15805-635: The free DVDs". He became a member in 2008. Apatow met actress Leslie Mann on the set of the 1996 comedy film The Cable Guy , where he served as producer and she was cast as the girlfriend of Matthew Broderick 's character. They were married on June 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, and have two daughters, Maude and Iris . Mann has appeared in Freaks and Geeks , The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Knocked Up , Drillbit Taylor , Funny People , and This Is 40 . Both daughters appeared in Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40 , as Leslie Mann's character's daughters, and Maude
15950-500: The general education program for all USC undergraduates and houses a full-time faculty of almost 1,000, nearly 8,000 undergraduate majors (over a third of the total USC undergraduate population), and 1,300 doctoral students. In addition to thirty academic departments, the college also houses dozens of research centers and institutes. In the 2008–2009 academic year, 4,400 undergraduate degrees and 5,500 advanced degrees were awarded. Formerly called "USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences",
16095-482: The half-tuition Presidential Scholarship; the one-quarter tuition Deans Scholarship), with only 5.5% of scholarship applicants being selected as finalists for the final interview invitation at the USC campus in Spring. This makes USC one of the highest ranked universities to offer half-tuition and full-tuition merit-based scholarships. These factors have propelled USC into being the 4th most economically diverse university in
16240-484: The help of the Allied Architects of Los Angeles. A separate School of Architecture was organized in September 1925. The school has been home to teachers such as Richard Neutra , Ralph Knowles, James Steele, A. Quincy Jones , William Pereira and Pierre Koenig . The school of architecture also claims notable alumni Frank Gehry , Jon Jerde , Thom Mayne , Raphael Soriano , Gregory Ain , and Pierre Koenig . Two of
16385-399: The initial draft of the film on the set of Talladega Nights . The story concerns a slacker and a media personality (Rogen and Heigl, respectively) whose one-night stand results in an unintended pregnancy. In addition to being a critical success, the film was also a commercial hit, continuing Apatow's newfound mainstream success. In August 2007, Apatow produced the film Superbad , which
16530-402: The nation. USC enrolls one of the largest amounts of National Merit Scholars of any university, offering finalists in the program its half-tuition Presidential Scholarship. As of 2021, about 72% of the student body receives about $ 810 million in financial aid annually. Twenty percent of admitted and attending students are SCions, or students with familial ties to USC, while 14 percent are
16675-578: The opening of a new Capital Campus in Washington, D.C. The university purchased a seven-story 60,000 square feet building and remodeled it to house classrooms, event venues, office spaces, a bookstore and a theater. Located in the heart of the Dupont Circle neighborhood, the USC Capital Campus is also home to USC's Office of Research Advancement, which helps university faculty researchers secure federal funding for multidisciplinary research projects. USC
16820-569: The outstanding documentary or nonfiction special award at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards for his work on the documentary. In June 2020, Apatow's seventh directorial film, The King of Staten Island , co-written with and starring Pete Davidson , was to be released in theatres but due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic it was instead released to video on demand on the 12th of June to positive reviews from critics. In 2022, Apatow, Joshua Church, and Nicholas Stoller co-produced Bros ,
16965-442: The plot focusing on "Ron Burgundy's struggle to find his place in the rise of new media and the 24-hour news cycle". Apatow produced Begin Again (2013), starring Keira Knightley who plays a singer-songwriter who is discovered by a struggling record label executive (played by Mark Ruffalo ) and collaborates with him to produce an album recorded in public locations all over New York City. Writer-director John Carney first pitched
17110-624: The respective professional schools. The School of Cinematic Arts , the oldest and largest film school in the country, confers degrees in six different programs. As the university administration considered cinematic skills too valuable to be kept to film industry professionals, the school opened its classes to the university at large in 1998. In 2001, the film school added an Interactive Media & Games Division studying stereoscopic cinema, panoramic cinema, immersive cinema, interactive cinema, video games, virtual reality, and mobile media. In September 2006, George Lucas donated $ 175 million to expand
17255-490: The rest of 2008, Apatow produced the comedy films Forgetting Sarah Marshall starring Jason Segel and Kristen Bell ; Step Brothers , which reunites Talladega Nights co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly ; and Pineapple Express starring Seth Rogen and James Franco , both of whom originally starred on Freaks and Geeks . In addition, he served as co-writer for the Adam Sandler comedy film You Don't Mess with
17400-404: The rest of existence." New York Times critic A.O. Scott , reflecting on summer films of 2009, opined that Funny People was "a movie about growing up, feeling sad, facing death—a long, serious film whose subject is the challenge of maturity. Which may be why, in the face of a softish opening weekend, various interpreters of box office data were quick to declare Funny People a flop. The summer
17545-530: The rest of the writing staff, Fox canceled the show in 1993. Apatow went on to join HBO's The Larry Sanders Show in 1993 as a writer and consulting producer, and he later served as a co-executive producer and director of an episode during the show's final season in 1998. He credits Shandling as his mentor for influencing him to write comedy that is more character-driven. Apatow earned six Emmy nominations for his work on Larry Sanders. During this same time, he worked as
17690-401: The safety of the university during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots . The ZIP Code for USC is 90089 and that of the surrounding University Park community is 90007. USC has an endowment of $ 8.1 billion and carries out nearly $ 1 billion per year in sponsored research. USC became the only university to receive eight separate nine-figure gifts: $ 120 million from Ambassador Walter Annenberg to create
17835-559: The school in 1901. In 1906, the school was reopened by the municipal and regional government and thus officially separated from USC. Renamed as Chaffey College, it now exists as a community college as part of the California Community College System . USC is a private public-benefit nonprofit corporation controlled by a board of trustees composed of 50 voting members and several life trustees, honorary trustees, and trustees emeriti who do not vote. Voting members of
17980-866: The school the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry. In 2013, the school introduced an eighth division, and in 2014, a $ 20 million gift endowed and named the USC Mrs. T.H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. USC collaborated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University to offer the USC Executive MBA program in Shanghai . USC Dornsife also operates two international study centers in Paris and Madrid. The Marshall School of Business has satellite campuses in Orange County and San Diego . In 2012, USC established
18125-506: The school. Viterbi School of Engineering has been ranked No. 11 and No. 9 in the United States in U.S. News & World Report ' s engineering rankings for 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism , founded in 1971, is one of the two communication programs in the country endowed by Walter Annenberg (the other is at the University of Pennsylvania ). The School of Journalism, which became part of
18270-609: The second most out of all universities in the United States. Of the regularly enrolled international students, the most represented countries/regions are China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan not included), India, South Korea, and Taiwan, in that order. Like other private universities, the nominal cost of attendance is high; however, the university's large endowment and significant revenue streams allow it to offer generous financial aid packages. USC also offer some very competitive and highly valued merit-based scholarships (the full-tuition, four-year Mork Family, Stamps and Trustee scholarships;
18415-433: The series. After its cancellation, Apatow was the executive producer and creator of the series Undeclared , which reused Seth Rogen in the main cast and other Freaks and Geeks cast members in recurring roles. Although both shows were quickly canceled, USA Today media critic Susan Wloszczyna called the shows "two of the most acclaimed TV series to ever last only one season". In 2001, Apatow created North Hollywood ,
18560-414: The six month-long Los Angeles Police Academy. A special joint USC/LAPD crime task force composed of USC DPS personnel and approximately 40 selected Los Angeles police officers, including a dedicated specially trained LAPD SWAT team, is assigned exclusively to the USC campus community to address crime and quality of life issues. USC is a large, primarily residential research university. The majority of
18705-436: The student body was undergraduate until 2007, when graduate student enrollment began to exceed undergraduate. The four-year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified as "balanced arts & sciences/professions" with a high graduate coexistence. Admissions are characterized as "most selective, lower transfer in"; 95 undergraduate majors and 147 academic and professional minors are offered. The graduate program
18850-405: The success of Anchorman and The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Apatow was still unable to sell both Superbad and Pineapple Express ; it was only after he produced the commercial hit Talladega Nights that Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to produce both. At this point, Rogen was unable to play the lead for Superbad , as he had grown too old to play the part of Seth. Subsequently, he was cast in
18995-464: The television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Undeclared (2001–2002), Funny or Die Presents (2010–2011), Girls (2012–2017), Love (2016–2018), and Crashing (2017–2019). Apatow also produced the films The Cable Guy (1996), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to
19140-703: The testimony of 52,000 survivors, rescuers, and others involved in The Holocaust is housed in the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences as a part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education . In addition to the Shoah Foundation, the USC Libraries digital collection highlights include photographs from the California Historical Society, Korean American Archives Automobile Club of Southern California, and
19285-454: The top twenty nationally for specialities by U.S. News & World Report , including cancer, cardiology, gastroenterology, and geriatrics. In July 2013, the university expanded its medical services into the foothill communities of northern Los Angeles when it acquired the 185 bed Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California . USC planned on making at least $ 30 million in capital improvements to
19430-400: The university's 20 professional schools. The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the oldest and largest of the USC schools, grants undergraduate degrees in more than 180 majors and minors across the humanities, social sciences, and natural/physical sciences, and offers doctoral and masters programs in more than twenty fields. Dornsife College is responsible for
19575-1365: The world's most powerful quantum computer , housed in a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility at the USC Information Sciences Institute , the only other commercially available quantum computing system operated jointly by NASA and Google . Notable USC faculty include or have included the following: Leonard Adleman , Richard Bellman , Aimee Bender , Barry Boehm , Warren Bennis , Todd Boyd , T.C. Boyle , Leo Buscaglia , Drew Casper , Manuel Castells , Erwin Chemerinsky , George V. Chilingar , Thomas Crow , António Damásio , Francis De Erdely , Percival Everett , Murray Gell-Mann , Seymour Ginsburg , G. Thomas Goodnight , Jane Goodall , Solomon Golomb , Midori Goto , Susan Estrich , Janet Fitch , Tomlinson Holman , Jascha Heifetz , Henry Jenkins , Thomas H. Jordan , Mark Kac , Pierre Koenig , Neil Leach , Leonard Maltin , Daniel L. McFadden , Viet Thanh Nguyen , George Olah , Scott Page , Tim Page (music critic) , Simon Ramo , Claudia Rankine , Irving Reed , Jacob Soll, Michael Waterman , Frank Gehry , Arieh Warshel , Lloyd Welch , Jonathan Taplin , Diane Winston , and Gabriel Zada . In February 2023, USC Graduate Student Workers voted 93% to unionize with
19720-602: Was "disenchanted" by Apatow's later films, "objecting to the treatment of women and gay men in Apatow's recent movies", with White quoted as saying of Knocked Up : "At some point it starts feeling like comedy of the bullies, rather than the bullied." In Apatow's comedies, characters had frequently used demeaning words against the LGBTQ community , words such as " tranny ", and " faggot ". Actress Katherine Heigl said in 2007 that though she enjoyed working with Apatow on Knocked Up , she found
19865-449: Was 12 years old, his parents divorced. Robert went to live with his maternal grandparents, and Mia went to live with her mother. As a child, Apatow lived mainly with his father, and visited his mother on weekends. Apatow's mother spent a summer working at a comedy club, which is where Judd was first exposed to live stand-up comedy . Apatow's deep interest in comedy dates back to his childhood; his heroes were Steve Martin , Bill Cosby and
20010-655: Was also nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2012 and 2013 Primetime Emmys for Girls and was also nominated at the Critics' Choice Television Awards for Girls . In 2012, Apatow received the Hollywood Comedy Award at the 16th annual Hollywood Film Awards presented by the Hollywood Film Festival . Additionally in 2012, Apatow was presented with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence from
20155-524: Was developed under two master plans drafted and implemented some forty years apart. The first was prepared by the Parkinsons in 1920, which guided much of the campus's early construction and established its Romanesque style and 45-degree building orientation. The second and largest master plan was prepared in 1961 under the supervision of President Norman Topping , campus development director Anthony Lazzaro , and architect William Pereira . This plan annexed
20300-599: Was introduced by manager Jimmy Miller to Garry Shandling which resulted in Apatow being hired as a writer for the 1991 Grammy Awards that year, which Shandling hosted. He went on to co-produce comedy specials by Roseanne Arnold , Tom Arnold , and Jim Carrey . In 1992, Apatow appeared on HBO's 15th Annual Young Comedians Special and shortly afterwards went on to co-create and executive produce The Ben Stiller Show for Fox . Apatow had met Stiller outside of an Elvis Costello concert in 1990, and they became friends. Despite critical acclaim and an Emmy Award for Apatow and
20445-544: Was nominated at the 34th Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress for This Is 40 . Apatow and his family live in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles . Apatow's philanthropic work includes supporting the literacy organization 826LA , the Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program, and Children's Cancer Research Center at Children's hospital. He edited
20590-611: Was ranked as a "Top 10 Dream College" according to The Princeton Review , as conferred from a survey of 10,000 respondents. USC appeared in the Top 10 list for both parents and students. On the 2011 "Green Report Card", issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute , the university received a B−. The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism was ranked 1st in 2014 by USA Today . In its 2020 rankings, U.S. News & World Report rates USC's School of Law as 17th,
20735-401: Was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as having the 4th most economically diverse student body. Reuters ranked USC as the 14th most innovative university in the world in 2015, as measured by the university's global commercial impact and patents granted. USC was ranked 15th overall in the 2016 inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking of U.S. colleges. In 2016, USC
20880-551: Was titled Making Amends , which had Owen Wilson attached to star as a man in Alcoholics Anonymous who decides to apologize to everyone he has ever hurt. However, the film was never made. Apatow did uncredited rewrites of the Adam Sandler films Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer . He was also featured in four tracks on Sandler's 1996 comedy album " What the Hell Happened to Me? " In 1999, Apatow created Sick in
21025-442: Was written by Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg . A concept Rogen and Goldberg had created as teens, Apatow convinced Rogen to write the film as a vehicle for himself in 2000. Rogen and Goldberg finished writing the film, but were unable to find a studio interested in producing it. Apatow then enlisted Rogen and Goldberg to write Pineapple Express , a stoner action movie that he felt would be more commercial. After
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