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Tom Shales On TV: Barry Levinson's 'PoliWood'

 
Told he's had a nothing-if-not-eclectic career, Barry Levinson thinks for half a second and says, "As it turns out, I guess it has been." True. Not everyone could go from playing a deranged bellhop in a Mel Brooks farce to winning an Oscar for directing a sensitive and bittersweet drama about an ... (link)

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