So he penned the script for Will Smith’s holiday release The Pursuit of Happyness [sic], whose spelling still irks me, and he has in the hopper Quebec, with Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly, which sounds destined to play on a double bill with Employee of the Month someday. But what the hell has happened to Steve Conrad’s Brad Pitt/Chad Schmidt project, which I think was announced before The Weather Man. Does this not jibe with Pitt’s rekindled sense of socially conscious pictures, or what gives?