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'High Fidelity' on TV: Zoe Kravitz refreshes cult classic in Brooklyn-based reboot

CHICAGO - As an actor, working the camera - addressing us directly, in a confidential key - only looks easy. Phoebe Waller-Bridge in "Fleabag": a genius, deadpan one second, fantastically expressive the next. John Cusack in the 2000 film version of the Nick Hornby novel "High Fidelity": also a direct-address genius.

Cusack had it tougher, in fact. The character he played, the Chicago record shop owner lugging around a gargantuan load of crippling, defensive cool was less of a self-destructive jester than the "Fleabag"

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