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Meetings Go Hollywood

Jan 29, 2008 2:59 PM, By Michael Bassett

Fistfights with keynote speakers. Award dinners interrupted by nude wrestling matches. Incentive trips turned murder scenes. Whether it’s a romantic comedy, an action flick, or a TV reality show featuring the Donald, film and television have portrayed meetings in a way that’s anything but … well, dull.

Roll the Credits...


ON THE BIG SCREEN

  • Young Frankenstein (1974)
  • The Man With Two Brains (1983)
  • The Fugitive (1993)
  • The Conversation (1974)
  • The Electric Horseman (1979)
  • Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
  • Reno 911: Miami: The Movie (2007)

    TV

  • Columbo: “Troubled Waters” (1975)
  • The Apprentice, April 2, 2004
  • The Office: “The Convention” (2006)
  • Scrubs: “My Conventional Wisdom” (2007)

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