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Somebody Has to Be in Control
The effort behind George Clooney’s effortless charm.
by Ian Parker April 14, 2008
Tackling Directing and George Clooney
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John Krasinski, who appears in “Leatherheads,” above, is directing an adaptation of “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of stories by David Foster Wallace.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
JUST as fans of the NBC sitcom “The Office” were celebrating the transformation of the fictional colleagues Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly from unrequited lovers to an honest-to-goodness couple, the writers’ strike cruelly stalled their romance and halted production on the show for several months. But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad. He used the hiatus to resume postproduction work on his directorial debut, an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of short stories and monologues that he has been trying to make into a film for more than five years.