Hooray for Hedge-fundwood!
By Nicole LaPorte

Outside the valet station of L'Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills on a recent evening, the actor James Woods was bellowing into his cell phone: "Give the guy a hundred dollars! Just give it to him!" Inside at the Writer's Bar, the hotel's softly lit den for after-hours negotiations over $1,400 bottles of Mumm Cordon Rouge Brut, the producer Brett Forbes was slumped back on a plush couch wearing a black T-shirt, jeans and Adidas sneakers, his brown bed-head hair falling in waves over bright blue eyes. Mr. Forbes' producing partner, Patrick Rizzotti, sat alertly in a chair next to him, wearing baggy jeans and a frayed pink polo T-shirt over well-maintained biceps.

The two men, both 29, were quietly celebrating a screening of their first movie, Pride, about an inner-city swim coach in Philadelphia played by Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), which will be released by Lions Gate in March. "It was very surreal," Mr. Forbes said of the experience. "I got choked up."

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