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TALKING PICTURES: BOAT SHOW

By | November 2003

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, maritime historian Dean King on Patrick O’Brien, starting in the middle, and the new film “Master & Commander…”

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