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RUFUS JONES, HOME WRITERAND STAR, FILLS IN A MISSING CINEMATIC BLANK: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB

“HELLO, DIMITRI.” PETER Sellerses. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room.” Nazi-arm. Bomb-rider. I have survived 40 years on Earth and half of that in comedy knowing precisely this much about . For no good reason whatsoever, you decide that it’s too late to, but on ITV2 again and I really should get under the bonnet of that Cruise-Bryan Brown dynamic.”

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