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Michael Hiltzik: At age 60, 'Dr. Strangelove' feels more relevant than ever

Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' during the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

If you're looking for validation of the line from songwriters Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager that "everything old is new again," you need not go further than a movie that premiered in New York City on Jan. 29, 1964 — 60 years ago Monday.

It's Stanley Kubrick's mordant nuclear age satire, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

One would have to go far to find an artifact of 1960s Hollywood that feels as fresh today — fresher, even — than it did the day it opened.

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