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- Lazar produced “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,”
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- marking the directorial debut of George Clooney and starring
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- Sam Rockwell, Clooney, Drew Barrymore and Julia
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- Roberts.
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- In 2002, he produced Danny DeVito’s “Death to
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- Smoochy,” a black comedy starring Edward Norton, Robin
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- Williams, and Catherine Keener. In 2001 he produced “Cats &
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- Dogs,” a live action/CGI hit about the high
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- -stakes world of
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- espionage and domesticat
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- ed pets. Lazar produced Clint
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- Eastwood’s “Space Cowboys,” an inspirational adventure
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- about a group of retired pilots sent on a NASA mission,
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- followed by Nora Ephron’s lottery comedy “Lucky Numbers,”
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- starring John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow. The independen
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- dramedy “Panic,” starring William H. Macy and Neve
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- Campbell opened in 2001, after a successful debut at the
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- Sundance Film Festival.
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- Born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles,
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- Lazar attended New York University. After making several
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- student films,
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- he got his first break working for Academy
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- Award-winning producer Richard Zanuck. He next joined Dino
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- De Laurentiis Communications, starting as a file clerk and
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- ascending through the ranks to become executive vice president