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Shohoku High School baseketball team
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Sakuragi Hanamichi
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power forward, 188cm
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Rukawa Kaede
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small forward
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Akagi Takenori
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center
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Mitsui Hisashi
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shooting guard
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Miyagi Ryota
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point guard
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krautrock bands
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CAN
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Neu!
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Kraftwerk
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Faust
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Actors who use their middle name or initial
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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John C. Reilly
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Philip Baker Hall
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Anthony Michael Hall
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Favorite Web Design Books
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line
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Don't Make Me Think
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Envisioning Information
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Betty's
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Betty Boop
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Boop boop be doop.
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Bette Davis
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Betty Davis
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Bette Midler
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Drunk actors
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Dean Martin
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W. C. Fields
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He never drank water.
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Dudley Moore
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His character Arthur drank enough to fall in love with Liza Minnelli
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Jim Backus
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Known for his performances of pompous lushy plutocrats.
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William Holden
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Watch that last step, Bill!
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cities i've visited
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New York City
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Buffalo
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Bad Influences
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Jack Torrance
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"Here's Johnny!"
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Daniel Plainview
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I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
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Nurse Ratched
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You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother's going to take this.
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Darth Vader
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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Anton Chigurh
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Let me ask you a question: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Favorite games
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Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery
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Scrabble
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Texas hold 'em
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FIFA 08
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Pedantic people
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Tim Kientzle
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Alexander Botero-Lowry
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Robert Cook
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Michelle Hlubinka
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Favorite films
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Badlands
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The Graduate
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Blade Runner
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Mulholland Drive
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Raising Arizona
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Foreign Films
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Léon: The Professional
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Don't forget the milk
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In the Mood for Love
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Seductive
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The City of Lost Children
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French people are weird
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Der Untergang
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Gripping
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Amores perros
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That's a good doggie!
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Kurt's Recent Film Views
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WALL-E
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The Dark Knight
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THX 1138
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Elektra
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Signs
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Road Movies
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Vanishing Point
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"you can't beat the desert"
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Easy Rider
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"We blew it."
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Two-Lane Blacktop
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"You can never go fast enough."
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Bonnie and Clyde
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"You know what, when we started out, I thought we was really goin' somewhere. This is it. We're just goin', huh?"
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True Romance
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"My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree."
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Musical Artists I Like You've Probably Never Heard Of
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The Lovemakers
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Vienna Teng
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The Paper Raincoat
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Eva Cassidy
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The Gene Harris Quartet
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Favourite Fictional Characters
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Supreme
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Cerebus the Aardvark
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Dream
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Drizzt Do'Urden
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Vincent Valentine
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Good Science Fiction Films
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Alien
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Aliens
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Blade Runner
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The Terminator
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My favorite films
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Beowulf
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
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The Lives of Others
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Office Space
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Sneakers
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Favorite Films
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The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
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Green Day
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yay!
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Palm Springs Architects
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Albert Frey
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Richard Neutra
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John Lautner
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William F. Cody
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Lloyd Wright
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Psychosexual Arthouse Thrillers
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Peeping Tom
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Repulsion
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Bad Timing
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Funny Flicks
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The Jerk
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Galaxy Quest
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Everyone Says I Love You
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Dogma
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Shrek
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18/19th Century Period Movies
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Emma
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Sense and Sensibility
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Mansfield Park
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Persuasion
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Northanger Abbey
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Dark Comedies
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Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy
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Bâtard-Montrachet
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Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet
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Bonnes Mares
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Chablis Grand Cru AOC
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Chambertin
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Places I 've been
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Athens
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Kalavryta
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London
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Brussels
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Paris
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Favorite screwball comedies
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His Girl Friday
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The Philadelphia Story
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Bringing up Baby
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Arsenic and Old Lace
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Favorite Will Ferrell movies
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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I'm Ron Burgundy?
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Old School
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Semi-Pro
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I've only seen it once, but I think it will get better every time.
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Step Brothers
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Favourite Scottish films
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Trainspotting
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Great film, challenging accents, probably didn't help the tourist industry ;-)
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Local Hero
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Braveheart
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Gave a huge boost to the Scottish economy!
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The Wicker Man
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Mrs. Brown
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Surprisingly good silly flicks
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Galaxy Quest
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Are you a Trekkie?
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Blades of Glory
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You don't have to like figure skating at all to love this film.
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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It's the little things that make this film stand out from the crowd of break-up themed romantic comedies.
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Step Brothers
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A little painful, but oh so much fun.
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Baby Mama
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Would've preferred a more realistic ending, but hey, this is a comedy after all.
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Serious Comedy
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Annie Hall
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A perfect film
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Happy-Go-Lucky
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A Mike Leigh movie that doesn't make you want to killl yourself is impressive enough (and I really like Mike Leigh) but for it to be good and funny and actually say something about the world....it's pretty great. Sally Hawkins is amazing.
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Fletch
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I can't tell if this is actually a good movie or not, I just love it unconditionally.
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A Fish Called Wanda
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An almost perfect movie. The music now seems quite dated, but the comedy is spot-on. Kevin Kline's Otto is one of the funniest characters I've ever encountered
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After Hours
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Perhaps the oddest and most under-appreciated of work of Scorcese's
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Favorite Films
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Black Cat, White Cat
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Man Facing Southeast
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The Reflecting Skin
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Brazil
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Movies that freaked me out
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Eraserhead
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The crying infant, the lady in the radiator...The little chicken dinner...Oh my mind!
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Trip out!
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Lost Highway
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Rammstien! Ultra-creepy Beretta Dude in whiteface!
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Koyaanisqatsi
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Mah! Timelapsemania! Philip Glass sensaround!
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Blade Runner
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The ubiquitous! The inevitable! Godfather of all dystopian mega-city films.
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Traumatizing films (you've been warned!)
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Chopping Mall
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80's horror flick at its best (or worst, depending on your view). I don't think I slept that night.
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Cat People
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Not recommended for 8-year-olds for sure.
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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Talk about weird! And horrifying! I never liked clowns after that.
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Child's Play
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Never liked dolls. This didn't help.
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Epics about initially idealistic but subsequently corrupt, withdrawn, brilliant, torn men
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The Godfather Part II
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The Good Shepherd
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Movies with Unexpected Endings
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The Game
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The movie that will make you wish you could forget about the ending and watch it over and over to re-experience the awe
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Everything Is Illuminated
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The beginning of a very rigid journey
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Fight Club
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The first rule of fight club is never to talk about fight club
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Memento
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Mindbending in reverse
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The Sixth Sense
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I see dead people!
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Faye's Faves
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In the Mood for Love
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One of the most visually beautiful films I've ever seen. Perfect acting. Love the music by Michael Galasso as well.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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What a great film. Love it!
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Among the best stop-motion films.
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Charade
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Not Cary Grant's best, nor Audrey Hepburn's. By far! Yet it's funny and thrilling! And it's a mystery too!
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The Philadelphia Story
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Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. It's brilliant!
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Early Late 19th and Early 20th Century Period Movies
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A Room with a View
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Howards End
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Wine in Film
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Dr. No
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1955 Dom Perignon
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Goldfinger
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1953 Dom Perignon
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Casablanca
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1926 Veuve Clicquot
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Sideways
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DRC Richebourg
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The Silence of the Lambs
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Chianti (with liver and fava beans)
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Renaissance Period Movies
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Elizabeth
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Shakespeare in Love
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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Awesome Films
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The Rock
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Totally awesome film
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A Bug's Life
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Totally awesome animated film
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Best Coffee Shops
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Flying Goat Coffee
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Caffe Trieste
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Comfort food
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Macaroni and cheese
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Spaghetti
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Grilled cheese sandwich
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Chicken soup
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bla bla
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Interlochen Center for the Arts
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Puerile movies
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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Half Baked
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Dumb & Dumber
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
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Team America: World Police
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Cheesy Surf Flicks
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Gidget
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The original...
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North Shore
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Long live Rick Kane
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Point Break
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Blue Crush
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In God's Hands
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Despite Matt George's best efforts, this film still had major cheese factor.
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Wealthy people with no fashion sense
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Meg Whitman
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Warren Buffett
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Bill Gates
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Disney characters I could beat up
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Mickey Mouse
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Chip 'n Dale
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Sheriff Woody
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Piglet
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Bellyful
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Sticky toffee pudding
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Gumbo
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Cochinita pibil
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Massaman curry
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Bulgogi
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Films with Jeremy Irons in perverse roles
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Damage
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Dead Ringers
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Reversal of Fortune
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M. Butterfly
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Lolita
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Places I've vomited
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Toilet
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Parking lot
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Bed
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Airliner
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Conference hall
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Books read, January 2009
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Gentlemen of the Road
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"Jews with Swords", as the author calls it in his afterword.
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Death at the Bar
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Crappiest mystery novel I've read in ages. Slow start, glaringly obvious set-up, boring conclusion.
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Greenmantle
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80
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Beans: A History
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80
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Cocaine Blues
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Re-read before giving it away.
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80
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Fav Childhood Cartoons
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Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac
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MY FAVORITE!!!! Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque
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Maison Ikkoku
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in French called Juliette je t'aime
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Cat's Eye
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Sexy Ladies!!!
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Dragon Ball
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the original the best!
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Inspector Gadget
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Austrian economists with two last name vowels
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Carl Menger
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Ludwig von Mises
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Murray Rothbard
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Friedrich Hayek
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Mainstream Hollywood films with S&M scenes
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Pulp Fiction
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Secretary
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Movies about illusions
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The Stunt Man
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Abre los ojos
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Total Recall
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The Illusionist
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Korean Films
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Friend
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Four friends that take on a different path
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Taegukgi
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Oldboy
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First in a trilogy of movies of vengeance by Park Chan-wook
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Shiri
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First big budget movie in Korea about North Korean espionage
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Welcome to Dongmakgol
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A way-side village caught between two sides of the Korean War
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Scottish Movies
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Comfort and Joy
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Ice cream van wars!
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Gregory's Girl
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Nails the boredom of a "new town" in the 80s. Dee Hepburn did almost nothing after this award winning performance
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That Sinking Feeling
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How not to steal stainless steel sinks...
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Local Hero
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"We have an injured rabbit, also"
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Shallow Grave
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Danny Boyle before Trainspotting
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Favorite films
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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I could watch this once a year forever. So sad that we don't live in such an austere, modernist world.
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100
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The Godfather
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Feudalism in the '40s.
|
100
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Who else but a Czech (director) understand the horrors of institutional control?
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100
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Alien
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Ridley has The Eye. Stylish haunted house in space.
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80
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Local Hero
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Magical-realist film by Bill Forsythe. Very few people know about it.
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100
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Ugly Actors
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Ernest Borgnine
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Reminds you of that uncle who always made you uncomfortable.
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Steve Buscemi
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He IS a Daniel Clowes character.
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Abe Vigoda
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No, not dead yet.
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Klaus Kinski
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Nastassja's mom must have been *really* beautiful.
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André the Giant
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He always gets some posse.
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