Apatown
n.— «It sounds like fun and games—the boozy, all-woman answer to those close-knit gangs of Hollywood boy-men captured on screen in “Entourage” and embodied by the real-life Apatown, the industry moniker for filmmaker Judd Apatow’s coterie of actors and screenwriters including Paul Rudd, Jason Segel and Seth Rogen.» —“An Entourage of Their Own” by Deborah Schoeneman New York Times Mar. 22, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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