This week Alec talks with filmmaker Judd Apatow, whose most recent film, “This is 40”, may be his most personal. For Apatow, each movie he makes is “a letter to myself telling me something that I need to know about how to live my life."

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 ...