The Feature

One of the Boys

Leslie Mann flew in from Los Angeles the other day to promote her new film, “Funny People,” on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” In-flight, the actress and her husband, Judd Apatow, the movie’s writer and director, began to fine tune some anecdotes for her. In the bar at the Four Seasons Hotel, soon after she landed, Mann explained that Apatow, who used to help write “Letterman” bits for stars such as Jim Carrey, “has trained me to be ultra-prepared, to have five stories ready to go