Cowell had also mastered self-promotion, showing off his home on MTV's Cribs and even making a cameo appearance as himself in Scary Movie 3.

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He was nominated for two Grammy awards in 2002 and has appeared in such films as The Fast and the Furious and Scary Movie 3.

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Craig Mazin, co-writer of Scary Movie 3 and a blogger behind the increasingly popular Artful Writer, is also pleasantly surprised by the kind of cautious optimism that has overtaken Hollywood.

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