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ell, nobody’s perfect.” These three words — uttered by the elderly millionaire Osgood Fielding III, who has just been informed by his betrothed (Jack Lemmon in drag) that he is actually a man, in the 1959 farce — is one of the most deservedly lauded nuggets of dialogue in movie history. Many would call it the finest closing line in comic film history. But when, in 1989, the

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