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[lively instrumental music]
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- Good evening.
I�m Helen Mirren,
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and you�re watching
"Documentary Now!"
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season 51.
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His ?lms are
the stuff of Hollywood legend,
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but until he consented
to this documentary,
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lew knew the inner life
of Hollywood producer
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Jerry Wallach
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and the obsession that fueled
and plagued his career.
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Well, it�s all laid bare
in the Hollywood expose�,
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"Mr. Runner Up:
My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid."
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- Everybody has
a great Jerry Wallach story.
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Everybody.
The only person in Hollywood
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who doesn�t have
a great Jerry Wallach story
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is Jerry Wallach,
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because his are all lies.
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In fact, if you can keep
Jerry Wallach
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as far away lrom this
documentary as possible,
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you might actually have
something close to the truth.
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[stirring orchestral music]
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- In 1939, Tootie Hayes was
nominated lor best screenplay
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at the Academy Awards.
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Tootie did
what any nominee does:
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he bought the tux,
the most expensive shoes.
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and hired a limousine to boot.
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Great story short,
Tootie lost to the writer
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of a little ?lm called
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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As Tootie and his wife left
the auditorium,
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a producer named Art Lange
said,
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"Cheer up, Tootie. It�s
an honor just to be nominated."
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Tootie Hayes broke
his [bleep] windpipe,
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and when Tootie�s wife tried
to stop the ?ght,
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he shoved her,
and she fell down some stairs.
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I love that story,
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because just as there�s
only one bride at a wedding,
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there�s only one winner
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who could bring home
Oscar gold.
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Every other nominee is
just a bridesmaid
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in a rented dress
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hoping someday
Oscar wrll propose.
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Tootie's wife was okay, though.
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Banged up, but, you know,
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she�s all right.
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I grew up in Pollock Beach,
Brooklyn in the 19305.
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Pop owned a store
that sold a jar of olives.
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Morn stirred a big pot
of laundry with a wooden spoon.
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I played stickball,
did pyro stuff.
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Everything was Norman Rockwell.
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But bad luck don�t follow
statutory laws.
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It�ll slam you hard
before you�re 18.
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[dark music]
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The Magenta Fever outbreak
hit kids in Brooklyn hard.
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What started with a cough
landed me
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near death in the hospital.
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I lived. I was lucky,
save for one thing:
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I went bald.
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You had to look close,
but I was a bald guy.
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l was ?ve years old,
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and l was a bald guy.
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lt sunk my self con?denoe
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all the way
to the mezzanine level.
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But my father didn�t let me
sulk.
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No. He took me
to Broadway Bill Pearl,
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the ?nest hairpiece maker
in Manhattan,
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and he said, "Fix the kid."
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He taught me that any problem
can be solved,
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and solved convincingly.
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Pop died of a heart attack
a week later.
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He was 35.
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It was his time.
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As a bald kid with a dead dad,
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movies became my refuge.
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I�d sit back
in those cheap velvet seats
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and forget all about
my stupid little life.
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The projector rolled,
and suddenly I could be anyone:
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a swashbuckler banging swords
with Robin Hood,
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or maybe some Apache Indian
chasing after old John Wayne,
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or a beautiful young virgin
being seduced by Dracula.
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But I�ll never forget the movie
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that captured my imagination
most of all.
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The theater went dark,
and the title appeared:
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Walt Disney�s "Snow White."
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- J� Everything is in tune
and it's spring I
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- The beautiful voice
ofAdriana Caselotti
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filled the theater.
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I couldn�t believe
what I was seeing.
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Every seat was ?lled:
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main ?oor, loge, and balcony.
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At 25 cents a seat, 3,500 seats,
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we�re talking $875
for one screening, minimum.
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And that's not counting
concessions.
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3,500 people spending
at least a nickel on popcorn--
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at least--and you're looking
at $1,000 gross.
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And that's for one shoWing.
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There were 15 showings a day.
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We're talking real money.
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And Caselotti was a no-name,
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so Walt probably paid her
scale.
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I knew from that day
that I wanted to make movies.
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- I went to college,
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but I have absolutely
no stories from that time.
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But I�ll never forget the day
I arrived in Hollywood.
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[upbeat music]
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I saw a posting
for mail room jobs
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at the William Morris Agency.
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Only trouble was about 600 lugs
my age saw the same posting.
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I was on line for three hours.
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I almost gave up,
but then who did I see
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pulling up fast
in a �51 Cadillac?
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Mr. Burt Lancaster.
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Burt was a major star
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and a big client
for William Morris
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I had to do something.
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So I used what life gave me.
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I think quick. I do the only
thing I can think of
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is I take my hairpiece off
and I throw it under the car.
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- You didn�t.
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- I did. No, no.
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I took the toupee and I threw it
under his car,
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and I let the waterworks go,
you knov?
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I said, "Y-y-you ran over
m-m-my dog, m-mister."
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[laughs]
- Did you get the job?
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- Will you let me ?nish
the [bleep] story?
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I got the job.
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[laughter]
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I started the next day,
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my foot in the door
of lighty Los Angeles.
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It was time to hustle,
and hustle I did,
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rising and rising.
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- J� She�s my little lady I
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I She�s my little girl J�
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I And she don't say maybe I
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I She�s my coconutI
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- I signed the biggest names
in Hollywood,
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and none of them read
their contracts.
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I got a commission
on their salaries,
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a producer fee on their ?lms,
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plus a realtor fee
on all their homes.
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This practice was legal
for about six years.
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It was a golden era.
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By 1965, I was the top agent
at William Morris,
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and I lived in style
at my beautiful home,
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Villa Caselotti,
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named after the voice
of Snow White,
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who got paid scale.
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It was an Italian oasis
tucked away
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in the ?ats near LAX airport:
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just me and the eucalyptus
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and constant planes.
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[plane engine whooshes]
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- I She�s my coconut I
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- Then, one day, my life
changed with a phone call.
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[phone ringing]
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It was Bob Goodwin,
president of Pinnacle Pictures.
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- Wallach, it�s Bob.
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I want you to know
I�m resigning.
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- That�s too bad, Bob,
but why call me?
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I don't work at your company,
and isn�t that
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more ofa Human Resources
thing?
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- No. You don�t get it,
Wallach.
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I want you to run the studio.
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[voice echoing] The studio,
the studio, the studio...
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- Run a movie studio?
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My dream since childhood.
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Sometimes,
when life runs at you,
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it�s to throw you a bear hug.
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But sometimes it's to hit you
in the balls
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so hard your teeth click
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and you puke on your shoes.
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I took the job.
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I was now a major player,
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respected by everyone.
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"Jerry Wallach"
meant one thing:
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SUCCESS.
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- I remember it was 1971,
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and we were in Beverly Hills,
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and it was Jack Warner's party
for Alfred Hitchcock,
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and the whole town turned out--
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all the name people
of the day.
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I went in the coatroom,
and Jerry was in there,
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and he was going
through the coats.
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Like, people�s pockets.
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I never told anyone that.
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[calm instrumental music]
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- Pinnacle Pictures was
a small fry
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compared to the other
big hamburger studios.
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Pinnacle had hits in the �305
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like the kids� series,
"The Scrapyard Gang."
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[lively music]
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m
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- Apples!
- Apples! Get your apples!
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- Apples!
- Apples! Get your apples!
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- Hey, mister,
do you want to buy an apple?
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- Certainly not.
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And if I see you
on this sidewalk again,
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I shall call the police.
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- Ah, eat ink.
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- Now, see--oh!
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0w! My--doh!
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[grunting]
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Hey!
That�s a real bat! Hey!
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- But by 1964,
Pinnacle was near dead
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and starting to evacuate
its own bowels.
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And when I say stuff like that,
I'm speaking figuratively.
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From 1955 to 1964,
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Pinnacle only produced
educational films
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on drunk driving.
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- When driving drunk,
always remember:
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one eye may see better
than both eyes.
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Keep one eye shut
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to drive drunk with gusto!
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- I needed to get the studio�s
?nances back in the black.
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Only two things in business
are recession-proof:
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comedy
and fantastic tennis shoes.
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Comedy was our ticket to hits.
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First, we needed stars:
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Lemmon, Martin, Lewis.
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Pinnacle couldn�t afford them.
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Then it hit me:
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I was looking
forAmerican stars
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when the biggest talent
I�d ever seen
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was right across the ocean.
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[upbeat music]
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Enzo Entolini,
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the Italian Chaplin,
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the biggest star in Italy,
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and the only true genius
I�ve ever known.
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The first time I saw his work,
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I knew that this goofball
had it.
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Enzo wasn�tjust a talent.
He was a survivor.
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His father died
when he was three.
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His mother suffered
from deep depreSSion
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and heart trouble.
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The village doctor told Enzo
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he had to make his mother laugh
to lift her spirits,
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but not too hard,
or she could die.
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At an early age, Enzo learned
how to do B to B- level comedy:
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just enough to make his mother
chuckle,
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but no more.
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Mediocre impressions
of Jimmy Cagney,
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a puppet thing where Enzo would
ask the puppet
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what day of the week it was,
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and it would tell him.
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- [speaking Italian]
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- He rode a razor�s edge
of humor no one else could.
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From jealous husbands
and horny wives
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to eating cigarettes
and falling off ladders.
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He pioneered
a new film movement,
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Italian sexy neorealism.
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[?ashes ?ring]
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- [laughs]
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Ooh!
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[speaks Italian]
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- I had to have Enzo Entolini
under contract for Pinnacle.
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Fortunately for me,
Enzo was free,
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living in London after landing
in hot water in Italy
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for comments his 12-year-old
wife made in the press
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about the church.
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I got on the next plane
to London.
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Enzo and me got along better
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than 7-Up and Seagram�s.
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No one ever made me laugh
harder.
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From that first night onward,
a friendship was formed.
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I called him El Guapo,
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and he called me racist.
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I teamed Enzo up with radio
and TV star Ed Brulay.
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Brulay was an alcoholic
and a closet case
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living dangerously
on the edge of discovery,
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but their on-screen chemistry
was only a little deniable.
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Enzo and Brulay made three
of the biggest comedies
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of 1964 and 1965.
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In that same year, I decided
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to take one of the biggest
gambles of my young career.
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[dramatic music]
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- An epic could make or break
a studio.
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Bible pictures were big.
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The Bible is
the original comic book:
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fake stories to please rabid,
violent fans.
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And if you get it wrong,
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they�ll kill you
at one of their conventions.
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In 1959, Jack Warner had
bought the rights
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to the entire Bible.
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It was a big-dick move
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from the thickest python
in Hollywood�s pants.
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What he didn't own
were the rights
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to the other fringe gospels,
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rejected
by the Council of Nicea
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in 325 AD.
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The Gospel of Thomas,
The Gospel of Simon...
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all stories of Jesus�s life
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that were considered
blasphemous,
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and therefore up for grabs.
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I called the lawyer
who controlled the rights
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to The Gospel of Lewis
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and cut a deal.
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[dramatic music]
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It told the story
of Jesus of Nazareth,
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and his friend from growing up,
Lewis.
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When Jesus starts hanging out
with the apostles,
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it�s dif?cult for Lewis,
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because the friend groups
don�t really mesh.
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Lon Barr
and Preston Fontaine star.
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- So, Jesus, there's something
I�ve been meaning
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to talk to you about.
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- Hmm?
- Now, don't get me wrong.
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I�m having a great time.
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But the apostles--
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they worship you
as the son of God,
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yet scorn rne.
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- Lewis, my friend
from growing up,
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look not what they say or do.
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Those men like you.
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They said so.
They said...
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"We like LeWis."
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- We treated the material
with the utmost respect.
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It was a story
of the son of God
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and a friendship caper.
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[laughter]
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- Lads? Lads.
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You know what's great
about all of us?
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We're all from Jerusalem,
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and we�re all good friends, huh?
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[laughter and cheering]
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- Then choose, Nazarene!
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Choose out of all of us:
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who�s your best friend?
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- [stam mers]
- Anyway, anyway,
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like I was telling you before,
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I had these two big baskets,
right?
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[all laughing]
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- It had a score
by Miklos Rozsa,
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and a cast
of over 10,000 extras
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for an outdoor market scene
that we ended up cutting.
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It was the biggest budget
in Pinnacle�s history,
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and it paid off.
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"Friend of the Son of Man"
was one of the last
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great road-show pictures,
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playing across the country
for over two years.
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But the critics savaged us.
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Pauline Kael
and Renata Adler,
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AKA Spinster and No Thanks,
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not only ripped apart the film,
but singled me out
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and printed my address.
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After all this work,
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I was still a joke
in Hollywood.
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Pinnacle was flush with cash,
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but we were strapped
for respect.
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I knew one thing could
put us on top,
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and that was Mr. Gold himself.
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The Oscar.
The Academy Award.
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- I made a bet with Jerry
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that "Friend of the Son of Man"
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would not recoup.
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If I won the bet,
he had to spend one night
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in the haunted mausoleum
of Lupe V?lez.
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If he won, I had to wear
a bandana around my neck
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every day for 50 years.
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And here we are.
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- Prior to 1945,
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the Academy Awards had been
a small affair,
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a chicken dinner
at a hotel banquet room
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that we shared
with some L. Ron Hubbard thing.
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It ran only 45 minutes.
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But over the years,
the Oscars had grown
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into an event
like the great Roman games
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where gladiators
beat the shit out of each other
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for money or whatever.
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Pinnacle needed
an Oscar-winning film,
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and I would do everything
in my power to make it happen.
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You�ve heard of
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Captain Moby Dick
and Mr. Whale--
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well, my whale was a 13.5-inch,
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8.5-pound golden Adonis,
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and I�d spend
the rest of my life
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trying to lure that
son of a bitch into my net.
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[upbeat music]
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- And it was enormously hard
to be married to such a person
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when all he wanted was--
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- Yes.
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We were married
from 1965 to 1967.
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Did he not mention that?
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l--l can�t with him!
Ijust can't.
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