'Horrible Bosses': The 'Freaks and Geeks' connection

Screenwriter John Francis Daley is that it causes a certain reaction when he walks into a meeting in Hollywood.

"I do not think anyone associates me with acting until I went into the room and their eyes light up and they say," Wait, you're the guy from "Freaks and Geeks," "Daley recalled during iced tea this week.

"And I roll my eyes," said his writing partner, Jonathan Goldstein.

Daley is in fact this guy - he gave a sort of side pop culture immortality as Sam Weir, the kid likably normal in the center of the constellation of misfit Judd Apatow TV more than a decade ago.

Daley still acts - he has a supporting role on TV procedural "Bones" - but it exceeded the high school career as a fiction writer. It glides over the glans of his cap this weekend, when his first screenplay produced, the R-rated comedy "Horrible Bosses," opens across the country.

Goldstein has his own unusual story. A Harvard graduate lawyer, he decided a few years in law practice he had had enough of legal life and moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film writing. "I always had this comic sensibility that I did not know what to do with," he said.

It was time to Goldstein in a large New York law firm that actually inspired "bosses". "It was a generally miserable," says Goldstein of employment. "There are always people just around the corner that can ruin your day or weekend, or your month. It was the kind of thing he wanted was not there to serve the client, but someone's own desire for power. "