Up Till Now (42 page)

I recognize that I’m getting older. And I do think about my own mortality. And what I now know is that there are so many questions to which I’m never going to know the answer. We are born into mystery and we leave life in mystery. We don’t know what transpired before and we don’t know what’s coming ahead. We don’t know what life is. We don’t even know the truth behind the assassination of JFK. Is there a God? What is time? There’s everything we don’t know.

I love a good mystery. I love wondering and speculating and guessing. I love looking at the stars and imagining what’s out there. I
love closing my eyes and trying to visualize a day three thousand years ago. Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I’ve seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery.

For example, do I wear a toupee?

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television network,
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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem,
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ad-libbing,
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agents,
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Ahead with Horses (charitable organization),
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Airplane II:The Sequel
(film),
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Alaska,
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Albert, Eddie,
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Alcoa Theatre
(TV show),
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA),
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alcoholism

Kidd, Nerine (wife),
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Nimoy, Leonard,
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Alexander the Great
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Alien Fire
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Allen, Marty,
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All Summer Long
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The Amazing World of Kreskin
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Amazon.com,
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American Sportsman
(TV show),
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American Tinnitus Association,
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Ames, Allyson,
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The Andersonville Trial
(play),
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The Andersonville Trial
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An Evening at the Improv
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animal psychics,
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animated film,
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Annie Get Your Gun
(play),
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anti-Semitism,
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archery,
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Aristotle,
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Arrest and Trial
(TV show),
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Arsenic and Old Lace
(play),
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Associated Press (AP),
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astronauts,
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Atari,
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athletics,
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Attack of the Crab Monsters
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Auntie Mame
(play),
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awards,
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Ayer, David,
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Bailey, F. Lee,
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Band, Charles,
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Cash & Cable
) (TV show),
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Barnaby Jones
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Barry, Gene,
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Barton Fink
(film),
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Barty, Billy,
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Basehart, Richard,
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The Bastard
(film),
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Beach Babes from Beyond
(film),
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bear hunting,
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Beaumont, Charles,
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Behar, Joy,
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Bellamy, Ralph,
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Ben Casey
(TV show),
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Bennett, Harve,
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Bergen, Candice,
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Berman, Pandro S.,
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Berman, Rick,
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Bernstein, Leonard,
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Best Actor awards,
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The Best of Us Awards Show
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Beverly Hills Cop
(film),
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Big Bad Mama
(film),
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Billboard’s
Top Heatseekers chart,
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Billy Budd
(Melville, TV play),
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Bimbo Movie Bash
(film),
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Biography Channel,
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B.J. and the Bear
(TV show),
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Blackboard Jungle
(film),
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Blair, Linda,
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Blakeney, Percy,
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Blankety Blanks
(TV show),
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Blood Sport
(TV movie),
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blooper shows,
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The Bold Ones
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Bonnie and Clyde
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bow hunting,
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Bridges, Lloyd,
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Broadway shows.
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Shatner, William, stage career season of 1956,
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A Shot in the Dark
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Tamburlaine the Great
(Marlowe),
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The World of Suzie Wong
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Brodkin, Herb,
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Brooks, Mel,
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Brooks, Richard,
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brown bear hunting,
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Bullock, Sandra,
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Burke’s Law
(TV show),
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Burstyn, Ellen,
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(film),
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Caesar, Julius,
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Cagney, James,
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California,
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Camp Max Straus (summer camp),
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Candide
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York City,
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carbon monoxide poisoning,
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cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
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Carell, Steve,
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Carpenter, John,
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Carson, Johnny,
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Cassavetes, John,
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Cassidy, Jack,
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The Catered Affair
(film),
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(play),
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CBS television network,
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Celebrity Bowling
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Chamberlain, Richard,
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Chaney, Lon, Jr.,
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Channing, Carol,
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Chapier, Henri,
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Chariots of the Gods
(von Däniken),
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charitable work,
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Checkmate
(TV show),
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Cherry, Don,
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Chicago, Illinois,
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Children Theater (Montreal),
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cigarette smoking,
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The Cincinnati Kid
(film),
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Cinémathèque Française,
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Clark, Dick,
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Clarke, Arthur C.,
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Clift, Montgomery,
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Clooney, George,
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Clurman, Harold,
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CNN television network,
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Cobb, Lee J.,
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cocaine,
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Cocker, Joe,
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Cole, Dennis,
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Columbus, Christopher,
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Combat!
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comedy,
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Comedy Club (Los Angeles, California),
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comic book series,
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commercials,
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commodities trading,
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Commodore Vic-20 (personal computer),
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Common People
(ballet and album),
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Communism,
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computers,
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concentration camps (German, World War II),
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Connery, Sean,
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Connors, Chuck,
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conventions (
Star Trek
)
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Coon, Gene,
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Corman, Gene,
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Corman, Roger,
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Corwin, Norman,
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Cosby, Bill,
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The Cosby Show
(TV show),
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costumes,
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Cowher, Bill,
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CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation),
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Cravat, Nick,
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Creature from the Haunted Sea
(film),
68

crime,
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14
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216
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17

The Cross-Wits
(TV show),
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Cruise, Tom,
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Culp, Robert,
205

Curtin, Jane,
290

Cyrano de Bergerac
(Rostand),
138

Dallas
(TV show),
213

Dancing with the Stars
(TV show),
168

Dante Alighieri,
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Darren, James,
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216

Da Silva, Howard,
95
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96
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190

Davis, Dorothy,
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15

Davis, Ossie,
49

Daytona racer (car),
70
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72

Deal or No Deal
(TV show),
207
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8

death,
57

defying of,
156
,
282
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83

laughter and,
154
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55

Death of a Salesman
(play),
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Decca Records,
138

de Cordova, Freddy,
139

The Defenders
(TV show),
92
,
95
,
96

“The Defenders” (
Studio One
episode),
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,
95
,
96

D’Elia, Bill,
326
,
327

De Niro, Robert,
103

Desilu Studios,
121

The Devil’s Rain
(film),
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67

Dewhurst, Colleen,
161

Dickinson, Angie,
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10
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111

Dietrich, Marlene,
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Diller, Barry,
199

director role,
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24
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225

Nimoy, Leonard,
225
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227
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28

Shatner, William,
223
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24
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230
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41
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247
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262

Disaster on the Coastliner
(TV movie),
105
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7

documentaries,
86
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185
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88
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340

Doohan, James,
121
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148
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149
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288