Reel Therapy

In the mid-1990's something strange happened to Martin Lawrence, an exceedingly successful Hollywood comedian. He engaged in a violent outburst and drug abuse on the set of "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate." Increasingly erratic behavior culminated in an arrest for waving a pistol and screaming at tourists on Ventura Boulevard in L.A. The answers to psychological mysteries such as this are usually a combination of nature and nurture, of self and environment. Indeed, there may be a combustible relationship between a comedian's mindset and the social world of Hollywood success. In "Funny People," Judd Apatow reveals a surprisingly somber and complex profession that attracts surprisingly somber and complex people. Read More