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Kenya to 'Christmases' for Seth Gordon


November 25, 2008 When Seth Gordon was lugging bundles of cash and a video camera around rural Kenya 11 years ago, he didn't see it leading to a gig directing Vince Vaughn in a big-budget Hollywood comedy. Several documentaries ("Shut Up & Sing," "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters") and a fortuitous pitch meeting later, and Gordon is about to unveil his feature directorial debut on thousands of screens. Landing at Yale via high school in Seattle and a childhood in Chicago, Gordon pursued an architecture degree until he realized that New Haven was not his kind of town.

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