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the intramural basketball team: "He
said, 'I know you guys won the cham-
pionship last year, but unless you have
n a spare office in the proverbial-
a short Jewish kid on your team, you
. ly overdone town of Los Angeles, won't repeat," Johnson recalls with a
producers Andrew
laugh. "I fell in love with him from
Kosove and Broderick
that point on."
Johnson sit behind twin prefab Al Pacino and
Three years later, Kosove
Robin Wi hams
desks.
demonstrated the same kind
They make the Odd Couple in "Insom nia.
of chutzpah when he read a
look like identical twins.
newspaper story about an
KoSove, an intense, detail-oriented
unusual gangster and thought it would
Jew from Philadelphia, stands about 5
make a good film.
feet 6 inches tall. Affable ex-basketball
"On a lark, I started buying books
star Johnson, an African-American
on the movie business," he says. "I
from. Athens, Ga., appears to be a
started sending them to Broderick,
head taller.
who by then had graduated and was
But the story of how these two
working on Wall Street. We sort of
Princeton economics majors came to
mutually became fascinated with the
found Alcon Entertainment — and to
business."
produce the new thriller Insomnia, star-
Kosove says his 13-year friendship
ring Al Pacino and Robin Williams —
with Johnson has been unaffected by
is more Horatio Alger than Neil Simon.
black-Jewish tensions.
"Neither of us ever had any inten-
"Blacks and Jews are peoples who've
tion of going into the movie business," been terribly oppressed throughout
says Kosove, 32. "We really stumbled
their histories, and I think out of that
into it in an unconventional way."
shared experience comes a heightened
The producers — who made
sense of pain when one group feels the
Entertainment Weekly's 2000 'power
other is letting it down," he says.
issue" — met at Princeton around
"But when two individuals get to
1989.
know one another, these global issues
At lunch one day, Kosove
don't have any impact. My personal
approached Johnson, then captain of
relationship with Broderick is based

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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles