Janet Maslin
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Longtime NYT critic. Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center.
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Old joke from The Onion matches real NYT story. The Singularity is here.
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Holy cow, Jimmy Kimmel.
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This was supposedly D.O.A.
But it keeps going up as most other films tank. Now pushing $150m worldwide even though it’s already streaming. Give new films room to breathe, ok? The old rules no longer apply.
Universal's The Fall Guy grossed an estimated $1.19M on Friday (from 2,826 locations), which was a 27% decrease from the previous Friday. Estimated total domestic gross stands at $77.28M.
#TheFallGuyMovie
#TheFallGuy
#BoxOffice
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Who could possibly care?
Tom Brady signed his new Bucs contract while wearing an equally new watch
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Still my favorite Cannes poster. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
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And 21 years after “8 Mile,” Eminem and “Lose Yourself” still bring down the house.
Ed Sheeran and Eminem performing “Lose Yourself” in Detroit 🗣️
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Read his letter.
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Note to journalism students: this story is just a Page Six item. Its only byline is Fox News. Its only sources are three people who posted on Facebook. No reporter bothered to talk to a live person. Mamas, don’t let your kids grow up to be lazy.
Willie Nelson fans are furious he’ll headline a rally for a Democratic candidate
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A.k.a. 4.8 million fewer jobs lost. A.k.a. Magical Accounting.
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Looks like a required reading list to me.
@winknews
Most of the books are being banned from H.S. libraries for students 14-18
One mom: “My high schooler is being denied access to books that interest him. Not all students have the means to obtain books, so the school library may be their only access point."
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Please don’t call new movies a “batch of content.” Thank you.
From ‘Beckham’ to ‘Sex and the City: The Movie,’ Netflix's latest batch of content contains multitudes.
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Remember John Prine making this joyful exit. We can’t do better.
The way I'd prefer to remember John Prine leaving us... dancing a jig to the sounds of "Lake Marie" at the
@BeaconTheatre
in 2018. Thanks for everything,
@JohnPrineMusic
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You’ve met him? Reader, I married him. This could work.
I've met Jon Landau and have to say that Jeremy Strong is very funny casting.
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Pants on fire.
“It is being contained.” One month ago today Kellyanne Conway chastised me for suggesting
#COVID19
was spreading across US.
@CBSNews
#Quarantine
#CornavirusOutbreak
#coronavirus
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Holy cow. It’s true.
Someone made the domain go to Trump’s wikipedia page.
Appropriate, since Trump lost the election.
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No words. He was too important. 💔
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s electrifying performance as Abbie Hoffman truly warrants this touching note of thanks.
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Breaking: Beatles rake in $1.29.
“Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles has surpassed 1 billions streams on
@Spotify
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It’s The Beatles’ first song to reach this milestone.
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@ladyastronauty
Things to know about “Meet Joe Black”:
—is 170 minutes long
—includes the line “What a lovely name, Joe!”
—makes Brad Pitt say “The taste of your lips and the touch of your tongue—that was wonderful.”
—needed 4 credited screenwriters to come up with this stuff.
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Walking out of “Dawn of the Dead” was an unprofessional and stupid thing to do, and anyone offended by my review is right. It’s a mistake I never made again.
@theGARFofficial
Sadly, it’s not just
@guardian
; reviewers expressing snarky disdain for
#horror
films is nothing new. Ask
@JanetMaslin
. 🤷♂️
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Maybe they should spend more than 3 hours thinking about it.
#Megalopolis
is being met with a lot of mixed reactions (and confusion) from the reviewers after it's
#Cannes
debut. Some are lauding the audacity of the movie and others questioning its existence:
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@zoeinthecities
Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s only legitimate child, who became a pioneer in nascent 19th century computer programming. Ada Lovelace Day is a major holiday for women in science, celebrated on the 2nd Tuesday in October. And she died at only 36. There’s your heartbreaker ending,
.
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75 today. So is Mark Knopfler. Happy Birthday to him.
This was taken 10 days ago. I’m the one on the right.
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You’re quoting us out of context to suit your purposes. I liked “Blade Runner” much better than this indicates. And the version available today isn’t the one we saw in 1982. Enthusiastic reviews on the aggregation sites are about the improved 1992 reissue.
The disdain for criticism in its most softball era is actually astounding to me. Pauline Kael eviscerated Blade Runner with such élan that a devastated Ridley Scott had the review framed. Without her critique, we likely never would have seen the Final Cut.
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Baez went to school with privileged white kids and pointedly identified as Mexican, though she’s of mixed heritage. This comes up in “Joan Baez I Am A Noise,” a documentary that’s unmissable even if you missed it. Still streaming.
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Could Colin Farrell be subbed in for the now-uninsurable Joaquin Phoenix? He’s fearless. He’s a total pro. They’re almost the same age. And Farrell’s already done publicity for “The Penguin,” which starts streaming in a month, so he might be able to do it.
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@ava
There’s not one thing about this picture that Former FLOTUS would have done/worn/sat on/sat near/bodily submitted to.
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@JFrankensteiner
For everybody loving these clips, look up the whole interviews if you have time. It’s her extended cat-and-mouse games that are so wild. These actors didn’t get away with just a curveball or two.
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On 5/4/70 4 college kids were killed by the Ohio National Guard. Many students took over administration buildings in protest.
Short-term effect: a huge Neil Young hit.
Long-term: we helped re-elect Richard Nixon, which was the last thing we wanted to do. Don’t forget.
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Tough luck, Mike Love.
Brian Wilson Disavows Trump’s Beach Boys Benefit in California (EXCLUSIVE)
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She’s a 52-year-old woman by now. They have grown children. Enough.
woody allen defending you gotta be one of the worse things that could happen when you’re fighting allegations
mostly because the picture on the right is of his step daughter and the one on the left is of his wife
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I have never seen him perform. I had one chance to do it before he was famous—and I was stupid enough to pass. Gonna fix that this week, nearly 51 years later.
Bruce Springsteen signing a note so that a young fan could skip school to attend his concert few days ago in San Francisco.
#BruceSpringsteen
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Yeah, those “nutty shouts.”
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The fake Beach Boys will be touring this fall. Mike Love is the only original band member involved, and a controlling interest in The Beach Boys’ intellectual property was sold off earlier this year.
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Joan Baez sings “Hello in There” for John Prine.
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@FilmJunkie82
This is a thorough overhaul with a 21st century mind-set. Just describing its reinvented opening scene—which emphasizes ambition, not family—to one guy was enough to send him through the roof. YOU CAN’T BE TIRED OF WHAT YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
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They’re called bribes.
Golden Globes voters receive personalized movie set chairs courtesy of the team behind ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
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R.I.P. Peter Fonda. McGuinn’s solo version of his “Ballad of Easy Rider” was released on the film’s soundtrack in—can’t get away from it, can we?—the summer of ‘69. A full Byrds version came later. 50th Anniversary screening and live concert scheduled for 9/20 at Radio City.
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@StephenKing
Unless I missed it, nothing explodes. But there’s the Civil War. Does that count?
It’s about yearning to be a writer and has some pure viciousness in it. Not all frills and buttercups.
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Wanna bet?
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Please be careful with your precious selves. Please wear masks at airports. I didn’t know it was back and now I have it and so do my kids and grandbabies. It feels a lot like flu. If I hadn’t tested I wouldn’t even have known. We’re all wiped out. Boy, I know now.
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Never saw this poster. There was a better pitch, but nobody knew yet.
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Thank goodness we dodged this bullet. You all know what “Student Council President,” “National Honor Society” and “Guys & Dolls” are code for!
apropos of nothing, here is Chief Judge Merrick Garland's high school yearbook entry
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How to kill a newspaper.
We have alarming news.
The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get.
We’re urging the company to reconsider. Here's our letter to McClatchy’s new CEO about how this could hurt our community.
#NoPayForClicks
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Baez has been singing this Prine song about age and abandonment since 1975. It has never sounded more beautiful than it does at this difficult moment. Bless them both.
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Why isn’t this the BIGGEST STORY ON TWITTER? If her name were Sully it sure would be.
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R.I.P. Herb Stempel, a pawn in the early days of rigged game shows who helped usher in an age of manipulation and lying. Played brilliantly by John Turturro in Robert Redford’s “ Quiz Show” as a man brought down by naïveté, then hell-bent on revenge.
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Nobody else could have made Harvey Weinstein lie as badly as he did to Howard Stern. The spat Stern staged between Donald Trump and a gossip columnist has to be read to be believed. A review of Stern’s celeb-filled new book on the art of the interview:
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Update: Hachette has acquiescenced to staff pressure and cancelled publication of Woody Allen’s book.
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Another comedy star of Campaign 2020.
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Who thinks of “Mutiny on the Bounty” and identies with Captain Bligh?
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Breaking News: this guy says an upbeat thing!
so proud to be able to vote for two fundamentally decent human beings
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Another find from
@dusttodigital
. Here’s Barbara Lynn covering the Ray Charles hit, but how many Black female singer-guitarists do you remember from the mid-60s? Wrote most of her own songs, had a couple of hits. Toured as a backup musician but this’ll have you wondering why.
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Congratulations to the immensely talented Greta Gerwig, winner the USC Scripter Award for her brilliantly nuanced, deeply felt reimagining of “Little Women.”
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That’s right.
the correct takeaway is not “more Mattel toy movies” or “more Barbie sequels”
it’s “let Greta Gerwig make whatever she wants”
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This is from “A Mighty Wind” and you can’t convince me otherwise.
From 1971 The Settlers with their biggest chart success The Lightning Tree (Theme from Follyfoot)
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@MJMcKean
Whereas the heteros from Sodom and Gomorrah are alive and well, tanning themselves in Palm Beach.
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Mel Brooks and this site’s owner have the same birthday. Astrology means nothing.
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“I have unfinished business with the future.”—David Cronenberg.
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In other news, I won’t be seeing any of The Rock’s movies. So absolutely nothing will change.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson says he won't endorse Joe Biden in 2024, after he backed him in 2020.
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With the lovely and gracious Eleanor Coppola plus Diane Lane, who starred in Coppola’s 2016 “Paris Can Wait.” She was well known for her documentary “Hearts of Darkness” and for preternatural patience with her husband’s creative adventures. Matriarch Extraordinare. R.I.P.💔
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And about that quiz going around earlier today: who among us has not sung “Werewolves of London” at a karaoke bar?
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This is the birthday of Keith Richards, Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt. Astrology doesn’t get any better. Enjoy it.
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Favorite Sean Connery picture? This. We met a couple of times. We had mutual friends.
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“Stood up straight, threw back my head, and I lied, lied, lied.”
—-“Big Hat, No Cattle” by Randy Newman
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Almost here: “In Restless Dreams,” Alex Gibney’s monumental documentary about Paul Simon’s 70 year career in music. Part 1 starts streaming tomorrow. Part II arrives a week later. Don’t miss it!
🙏 to
@alexgibneyfilm
for visiting yesterday w. “In Restless Dreams,” his revelatory Paul Simon portrait. It drew a packed house. Such an innovative look at Simon’s lifelong journey of musical discovery, and it should be in theaters! But it won’t. We were very lucky.
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@emilynussbaum
Taking CD players out of cars was a crime. My car plays 6 and I’m keeping it forever.
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I have COVID for the first time and it’s making me nasty. I don’t mean to be. Apologies.
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Dear Academy:
It's still only December. You have more than enough time to make sure that this year's "In Memoriam" montage honors Dan Talbot, whose nearly 60-year career exhibiting and distributing great art films influenced generations. Please give him his due.
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With Ann Roth, the costume designer who’s in “Barbie” and is the subject of Maureen Dowd’s fine NYT profile today. I don’t know why I’m hugging her in this picture. But you’d want to hug her too.
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The Man Who Would Be King.
What’s Your Favorite Sean Connery Performance?
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More than 60% of the current “Stop Making Sense” audience wasn’t even born when the film version opened in 1984. Here’s to the beloved filmmaker who made it such a keeper.
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Hi, Google. I’m not on your list. I’m the only woman who was ever the NYT’s sole chief film critic (other than Renata Adler, who did it very briefly). When I’m dead I won’t care. But I’m here, and you’re not very nice.
film critics - Google Search
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Everything about this Scorsese profile is beautiful, earned and true. But it’s also a case of Oscar campaigning kicked up to murderous high gear. Subtle message: Marty could die soon. Give him that damn thing or we’ll shoot your dog.
via
@NYTimes
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Did Stephen King ask to be part of this ad campaign? Seems unlikely.
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“The Shootist” isn’t mentioned much, but it’s one of Don Siegel’s best films. It was J. Wayne’s last and starred him as a dying gunfighter. Superb cast: James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Scatman Crothers, even twentyish Ron Howard as Bacall’s son. Elegiac western. Aces.
NEW US & CAN TITLE: The Shootist (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
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Pass it on.
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Dear Person In Sweatpants Who Wrote This:
They’re the Davies Brothers to you. Go listen to “Waterloo Sunset,” “Celluloid Heroes,” “Lola,” “Come Dancing” and “Sunny Afternoon.” Then have some respect. Then shut up.
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If I’ve learned anything from years on this site, it’s that Debbie Harry never took a bad picture.
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FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE- Better Things
They were partially inspired by the Kinks. Here’s their gorgeous, pure pop cover of the Kinks’ “Better Things.” Adam Schlesinger, at left, died today of COVID-19. Listen:
via
@YouTube
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Yesterday I saw “The Fall Guy” in a near-empty theater and laughed myself silly. Is word of mouth bad? Don’t you believe it. Get out of the house for this.
$1M CLUB: DISCOUNT TUESDAY
1. THE FALL GUY ($3.1M)
2. CHALLENGERS ($1.2M)
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@ThatEricAlper
Ode to Billy Joe
Midnight Train to Georgia
Up the Junction (Squeeze)
I Knew the Bride and The Rose of England (both by Nick Lowe)
Hackensack (Fountains of Wayne)
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This doesn’t include Godfather II; Parallax View: The Taking of Pelham 1, 2,3; Blazing Saddles AND Young Frankenstein; Foxy Brown; The Sugarland Express; Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More; Uptown Saturday Night; horror classics. And those are just U.S. mainstream. What a year.
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Happy Birthday to the illustrious Walter Murch, a protean force in advancing the art of film. He’s best known for inventing sound design (watch the opening sequence of “Apocalypse Now”). Another credit: he worked on the first NY radio broadcast to showcase 20-year-old Bob Dylan.
Happy 80th birthday to the legendary Walter Murch, born in New York on 7/12/43. Murch won Academy Awards for sound for APOCALYPSE NOW & for both sound & editing for THE ENGLISH PATIENT. His additional six Oscar nominations include sound for THE CONVERSATION & editing for JULIA.
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Happy Birthday to Mark Knopfler. I first knew him for his “Cal” and “Local Hero” soundtracks, not Dire Straits. We were born on the same day,
same year. Sir, you’re the greatest. Please outlive me.
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Singleton planned to re-team with Taraji P. Henson on a film about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old victim of the horrendous Mississippi hate crime. Henson was to produce and play Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett’s mother. It had the potential to be Singleton’s most ambitious project.
A few reasons to be grateful for John Singleton: the greatness of BOYZ N THE HOOD, the lasting visions of BABY BOY and ROSEWOOD, the breakthrough roles for Ice Cube, Taraji P. Henson, Regina King, Morris Chestnut & Nia Long, among others.
In appreciation:
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Despite severe restrictions, the House team is doing a formidable job of summarizing its case on the floor of the Senate.
Senators get 16 hours to ask questions. Wouldn't they like to ask about documents?
If McConnell gets his way, they won't see any documents before their questions.
Even if documents are allowed later, they can't ask a single question about them.
Americans deserve a fair trial.
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John Dahl’s “The Last Seduction’ has turned up on Prime and Tubi. Miss it at your own peril. It was never easy to find even though it’s one of the 90s neo-noir greats. Maybe Linda Fiorentino’s character scared people. She thrilled me.
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