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Daniel Barnz

He wrote and directed a movie adaption of the novel Beastly, a modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast.

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Barnz was born Daniel Bernstein in a suburb of Philadelphia, and later changed his surname to an amalgamation of Bernstein and Schwartz, the surname of his partner of almost two decades, Ben Schwartz.

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However, his most recent film, Won't Back Down (2012), garnered controversy and was attacked by Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the predominant national teachers' union, as having "the most blatant stereotypes and caricatures I have ever seen-even worse than in Waiting for Superman", another film attacked as "anti-teacher union".

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