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TALKING PICTURES: GRAND IDEAS

By | June 2003

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, film critic Joel Siegel catches a Hollywood classic…

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TALKING PICTURES: GRAND IDEAS

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