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No./ 16 The gangster that got me out of movie jail

THE STORY OF Josh Trank’s career is as fascinating as anything he’s put on screen (see sidebar, right). At 27, he was the toast of Hollywood with ; within three years, he had a calamity on his hands in the form of . But now he’s back, with the independently produced , a biopic of the Chicago gangster’s final years. In typical Trank fashion, it’s not a safe bet: an unconventional and provocative film showing Capone’s mental deterioration under neurosyphilis, which includes graphic depictions of diarrhoea. Here he

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