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No./14 Inside the Rocky robot scandal

IS a story about honour, courage, the conflict between East and West, and muscular men standing atop mountains screaming. But it is also a story about the touching relationship that develops between a hard-drinking slob and the robot butler he is given for his birthday. In one of the strangest subplots of the 1980s, Paulie (Burt Young) first spurnsunique, OTT charm.

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