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Movie review: A look at '60 Minutes' correspondent Mike Wallace is as tough-minded as the man himself

Who remembers the great names of journalism past? In a single generation, it's been said, they are one with Nineveh and Tyre. Is even Mike Wallace on the way to oblivion? Not if the crackerjack documentary "Mike Wallace Is Here" has anything to say about it.

Wallace, who died in 2012 at the great age of 93, was a disruptive legend of broadcast journalism, someone who famously pushed back against the Ayatollah Khomeini

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