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" I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. "

Michael Douglas

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" 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. "

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