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timdraft #4: Movie Category Draft (3 Viewers)
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Andy Dufresne
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AcerFC
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Round 20
1. Usual21- Harry Potter
2. AcerFC- Nil by Mouth
3. Tremendous Upside- autoskip
4. Kumerica- autoskip
5. John Madden's Lunchbox- autoskip
6. Dr. Octopus- OTC til 1:51
7. jwb- On Deck
8. Mrs. Rannous- In the Hole
9. krista4
10. joffer
11. Tiannamen Tank- skip
12. Nick Vermiel
13. BobbyLayne- autoskip
14. tish155
15. timschochet
16. Karma Police
17. higgins
18. hooter311- skip
19. Aerial Assault- autoskip
20. Val Rannous
21. Doug B- autoskip
22. Time Kibitzer
23. Andy Dufresne
24. Mister CIA- autoskip
25. rikishiboy- I have his picks
1. Usual21- Harry Potter
2. AcerFC- Nil by Mouth
3. Tremendous Upside- autoskip
4. Kumerica- autoskip
5. John Madden's Lunchbox- autoskip
6. Dr. Octopus- OTC til 1:51
7. jwb- On Deck
8. Mrs. Rannous- In the Hole
9. krista4
10. joffer
11. Tiannamen Tank- skip
12. Nick Vermiel
13. BobbyLayne- autoskip
14. tish155
15. timschochet
16. Karma Police
17. higgins
18. hooter311- skip
19. Aerial Assault- autoskip
20. Val Rannous
21. Doug B- autoskip
22. Time Kibitzer
23. Andy Dufresne
24. Mister CIA- autoskip
25. rikishiboy- I have his picks
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
What was the Harry Potter pick? I thought of taking Daniel Radcliffe for child actor.
Usual21
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
20.06 Bad Lieutenant - Drugs
Link has NSFW language
Link has NSFW language
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Put me on a 10min timer please.
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
jwb
Footballguy
20.07 - Friday the 13th - Jason's First Appearance - Shocking Scene
Those of you who saw this in the theater back in 1980 know how shocking this scene was (it was one of the first "oh no, it's NOT over" endings that became common in horror films).
Here we have this night of terror, and the one girl survives. It's morning, the sun comes up, there's a cop at the shore... whew... it's over.
Nope
Those of you who saw this in the theater back in 1980 know how shocking this scene was (it was one of the first "oh no, it's NOT over" endings that became common in horror films).
Here we have this night of terror, and the one girl survives. It's morning, the sun comes up, there's a cop at the shore... whew... it's over.
Nope
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
20.8 - Hangmen Also Die! - Nazi movie
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I've PM'ed Andy Val's next two picks. I'll PM Krista now.
meanjoegreen
Footballguy
Nice pick. This movie can be brutal to watch due to the domestic violence and such, but you feel like you are getting a realistic look into the culture and life of this family in South London. The acting in it is excellent.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I have a question for a judge that is yet to exist. Movie Parent falls under the portrayal categories. So we are judging the performance not necessarily the role, correct? That would seem to be the case for the rest of the portrayal categories.
meanjoegreen
Footballguy
When I saw this at the theater, I knew something was going to happen when she was sitting there in the canoe, but I still jumped when Jason came out of the water.jwb said:
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Agreed (I think) - ####ty parents/characters shouldn't be downgraded if the actor/actress delivered an outstanding performance. It's not like we're all looking for Ward & June Cleaver, right?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Interesting. I wonder how much England is in these movies.Usual21 said:
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
That would be how I would interpret it.
It's not like we're judging Abraham Lincoln v. Ghandi v. Ray Charles, were judging the actor's performances playing those roles.
It seems people haven't been necessarily drafting that way however, at least based on some of the defenses of the picks being offered.
I guess not having a judge kind of lead to the ambiguity - but still based on where the sub-category was placed under (portrayals) I don't think it can, or should, be viewed otherwise.
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Last time I was there I didn't see anyone flying around on broomsticks, but it was awhile ago and technology has changed a bit.
Time Kibitzer
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updatedAcerFC said:
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
You know how I drafted "Fresh"? I think this is almost the same movie except set in hillbilly land instead of the 'hood.
In other words, I like the pick.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
#off #auto #skip
AcerFC
Footballguy
not what I thought at all. Changes.Everything
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
20.12 Billy Elliot - Jamie Bell child performance.
krista4
Footballguy
Me either. Kind of thought the whole discussion of whether Linda Hamilton was a good mother, not whether she gave a good performance, evidenced this.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
here, picking
yeah, we really need a parent judge and/or criteria
yeah, we really need a parent judge and/or criteria
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
If you have an issue with spoilers in write-ups, don't click the spoiler tag below. It's the full bio and includes several titles that may be drafted later. Just wanted to throw up his body of work.
Serious actor, but probably best known for taking an explosive dump. Such is life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZU_NZRfjA
20.13 Portayals dramatic actor in a comedic role - Jeff Daniels, Dumb and Dumber
Also, I love the fact that he founded the Purple Rose Theater in his hometown in Michigan, and continues to support it while raising his family there. Very grounded guy.
Serious actor, but probably best known for taking an explosive dump. Such is life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZU_NZRfjA
20.13 Portayals dramatic actor in a comedic role - Jeff Daniels, Dumb and Dumber
Also, I love the fact that he founded the Purple Rose Theater in his hometown in Michigan, and continues to support it while raising his family there. Very grounded guy.
n all-American leading man with a flair for playing perplexed characters overtaken by unusual circumstances, actor Jeff Daniels first registered with the public with his performances as a mostly self-involved semi-intellectual who cheats on his cancer-stricken wife in "Terms of Endearment" (1983). Two years later, he solidified his status as the smug actor in the film-within-the-film who steps off the screen to woo Mia Farrow in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), and had his defining role as the feckless hero in the offbeat comedy-thriller, "Something Wild" (1986). From there, he oscillated easily from quirky character pieces to big studio films like "Gettysburg" (1993) and the action thriller "Speed" (1994). Daniels was at his most hilarious as a good-natured doofus opposite Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber" (1994) and starred in the live action version of "101 Dalmatians" (1996), before turning in an endearing performance as a diner owner-turned-painter in "Pleasantville" (1998). He had a series of supporting roles in "Blood Work" (2002), "The Hours" (2002), and "Gods and Generals" (2003), before delivering an acclaimed performance in the indie hit "The Squid and the Whale" (2005). The decidedly anti-Hollywood Daniels next played lead detective Alvin Dewey in "Infamous" (2006), a wise blind man in "The Lookout" (2007) and a Congressman in "State of Play" (2009). Whether quirky or serious or somewhere in between, Daniels proved himself to be a chameleon-like actor in a wide ranging number of roles.
Born in Georgia but raised in Michigan, Daniels attended college with the intention of becoming a teacher, although he minored in theater. Cast by guest director Marshall W. Mason in a production of "Summer and Smoke" in his junior year, he dropped out of college and moved to New York City to work with Mason at the Circle Repertory Company. Beginning as an apprentice, Daniels eventually made his stage debut with the company in 1976. Playwright Lanford Wilson expressly wrote the role of Jed, the homosexual lover of a paraplegic, in "Fifth of July" for Daniels, who appeared in both the 1978 off-Broadway version and the 1980 Broadway production. (He also reprised the role for the TV version first aired on Showtime in 1982.) For his stunning performance in the one-man "Johnny Got His Gun" (1982), the actor received an OBIE award. Other Broadway credits included "The Golden Age" (1984), A. R. Gurney's modern-day version of Henry James' "The Aspern Papers," and Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" (1993), a role he reprised in the 1995 CBS TV adaptation.
Daniels entered films in the small role of the policeman who breaks up a fight between Coalhouse Walker and the fire chief in "Ragtime" (1981). It was not long before Daniels became a known actor with his breakout role of a caddish professor cheating on his wife (Debra Winger) who later dies of cancer in the Oscar-winning tearjerker, James L. Brooks' "Terms of Endearment" (1983). His ability to convey the less-than-admirable qualities of the weak-willed man, but still illicit sympathy in audiences as he grieved the loss of the woman he had wronged made a memorable impact on audiences. Unfortunately, he was wasted as Meryl Streep's editor and friend in "Heartburn" (1986), but fared better as a radio action hero in Woody Allen's "Radio Days" (1987). Daniels has also played leading roles in the little-seen "The House on Carroll Street" (1988), as the stalwart all-American FBI agent who nevertheless helps the "Red-tainted" Kelly McGillis ferret out why U.S. officials are hiding a group of German immigrants; "Checking Out" (1988), as a raging hypochondriac; and a co-starring role in the disappointing "The Butcher's Wife" (1991), opposite Demi Moore. Daniels managed to hold his own alongside several hundred spiders and the scene-stealing John Goodman in the creepy "Arachnophobia" (1990), and he won much-deserved acclaim for his fine performance as Joshua Chamberlain, the Union colonel who defends Little Round Top, in the otherwise middling "Gettysburg" (1993).
On a serious career roll, Daniels ventured back to lighter fare and blockbuster box office with his scene-stealing supporting role of Keanu Reeves' partner, Det. Harold 'Harry' Temple, in Jan De Bont's "Speed" (1994) and displayed a rarely-seen goofy side in the smash holiday hit "Dumb and Dumber" (1994). The year 1996 was a prolific one for Daniels, who further demonstrated his versatility by appearing in the ensemble of the edgy independent film "2 Days in the Valley," playing Anna Paquin's estranged father in the heartwarming "Fly Away Home," and going up against Glenn Close's Cruella DeVil in the live-action remake "101 Dalmatians." In the late 1980s as his star continued to rise, Daniels had deserted Hollywood and retreated to his hometown of Chelsea, MI, where he founded the Purple Rose Theater Company. From its inception, the company produced several of Daniels' own plays throughout the 1990s and beyond, including "Shoe Man," "The Vast Difference" and "The Kingdom's Coming." Daniels made his feature directorial debut with the locally themed comedy "Escanaba in da Moonlight" (2001), adapted from his stage play about a hunting trip gone slightly awry. The film was self-distributed in Michigan in 2001 to little fanfare, though his second outing as writer-director proved more successful. Daniel's "Super Sucker," a comedy about rival vacuum cleaner salesmen, won a slot at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and walked away with its Audience Award for Best Feature.
Although he no longer lived there, Hollywood continued to beckon. Daniels continued to walk the hit-and-miss path of playing both leading and character roles, alternately appearing in bombs like the film remake of the 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian" (1999) and in moving roles in popular films such as "Pleasantville" (1998), in which he played the lonely soda shop owner Mr. Johnson, who lives in the artificial, black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom and who strikes up an unexpected and Technicolor romance with a married woman (Joan Allen). In between big screen projects, Daniels also turned in exemplary work in several television efforts, including playing George Washington in the A&E telepic "The Crossing" (2000). In 2002, Daniels appeared in Clint Eastwood's detective thriller "Blood Work" and made a renewed impression on audiences in a brief but memorable role as Ed Harris' former lover in Steven Daldry's "The Hours" and in the reprisal of his role as Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in "Gods and Generals," Ron Maxwell's 2003 prequel to "Gettysburg." For his next movie, Daniels stepped behind and in front of the camera by directing and starring in the slapstick "Super Sucker" (2002), about a door-to-door vacuum salesman who discovers his product can double as a sex toy for dissatisfied housewives. Daniels also helped finance the film, but it unfortunately failed to earn wide distribution and went straight to video after a brief appearance in theaters.
After a turn in the acclaimed telepic adaptation of Mitch Albom's bestseller "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" (ABC, 2004), Daniels next appeared as a grieving father in "Imaginary Heroes" (2005). Co-starring Sigourney Weaver and Emile Hirsch, the film depicted a family mourning the death of their eldest son (Kip Pardue) who killed himself when the pressure of being a high school swimming champion became too much to handle. In "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), Daniels played the preacher father of a young girl (AnnaSophia Robb) who comes to live with him for the summer despite their troubled relationship caused by her mother's desertion. He next had a nicely etched supporting turn in George Clooney's second directorial effort "Good Night and Good Luck" (2005) playing straight-talking network CBS news executive Sid Mickelson, followed by strong notices in writer-director Noah Baumbach's autobiographical "The Squid and the Whale" (2005), the story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce. Daniels returned to high-concept studio fare with a supporting role in the one-note comedy, "RV" (2006), playing the father in a family of fulltime RV travelers whose friendliness and constant singing drive another family headed by an overworked executive (Robin Williams) more crazy than they make themselves. Daniels didn't have to look far for inspiration for the role; in real life, he had been an RV enthusiast and drove his own recreational vehicle to and from set. Despite poor reviews, "RV" took its opening weekend with a $16 million haul at the box office.
Meanwhile, Daniels was set to be seen in "Infamous" (2006), the second biopic in as many years about Truman Capote (Toby Jones) and his six year stint in Kansas investigating a grisly quadruple homicide that led to his writing In Cold Blood. Daniels played Alvin Dewey, the agent who befriends Capote and helps grant the writer unprecedented access to information and the prisoners. After "Infamous" came and went without so much as a whimper, Daniels delivered a typically competent performance in Scott Frank's directorial debut "The Lookout" (2007), playing the blind roommate of a former high school hockey star (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brain damaged from a car accident who is recruited by a group of thieves to help rob a bank. In 2009, Daniels returned to the stage for the Broadway production of Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage," earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. Back on the screen, he was a struggling novelist who befriends a high school girl (Emma Stone) who gives him back his confidence in the indie drama "Paper Man" (2010). After playing a university professor in "Howl" (2010), Daniels starred as a news anchor in Aaron Sorkin's cable drama "The Newsroom" (HBO, 2012- ), for which he received SAG and Golden Globe nods for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
Born in Georgia but raised in Michigan, Daniels attended college with the intention of becoming a teacher, although he minored in theater. Cast by guest director Marshall W. Mason in a production of "Summer and Smoke" in his junior year, he dropped out of college and moved to New York City to work with Mason at the Circle Repertory Company. Beginning as an apprentice, Daniels eventually made his stage debut with the company in 1976. Playwright Lanford Wilson expressly wrote the role of Jed, the homosexual lover of a paraplegic, in "Fifth of July" for Daniels, who appeared in both the 1978 off-Broadway version and the 1980 Broadway production. (He also reprised the role for the TV version first aired on Showtime in 1982.) For his stunning performance in the one-man "Johnny Got His Gun" (1982), the actor received an OBIE award. Other Broadway credits included "The Golden Age" (1984), A. R. Gurney's modern-day version of Henry James' "The Aspern Papers," and Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" (1993), a role he reprised in the 1995 CBS TV adaptation.
Daniels entered films in the small role of the policeman who breaks up a fight between Coalhouse Walker and the fire chief in "Ragtime" (1981). It was not long before Daniels became a known actor with his breakout role of a caddish professor cheating on his wife (Debra Winger) who later dies of cancer in the Oscar-winning tearjerker, James L. Brooks' "Terms of Endearment" (1983). His ability to convey the less-than-admirable qualities of the weak-willed man, but still illicit sympathy in audiences as he grieved the loss of the woman he had wronged made a memorable impact on audiences. Unfortunately, he was wasted as Meryl Streep's editor and friend in "Heartburn" (1986), but fared better as a radio action hero in Woody Allen's "Radio Days" (1987). Daniels has also played leading roles in the little-seen "The House on Carroll Street" (1988), as the stalwart all-American FBI agent who nevertheless helps the "Red-tainted" Kelly McGillis ferret out why U.S. officials are hiding a group of German immigrants; "Checking Out" (1988), as a raging hypochondriac; and a co-starring role in the disappointing "The Butcher's Wife" (1991), opposite Demi Moore. Daniels managed to hold his own alongside several hundred spiders and the scene-stealing John Goodman in the creepy "Arachnophobia" (1990), and he won much-deserved acclaim for his fine performance as Joshua Chamberlain, the Union colonel who defends Little Round Top, in the otherwise middling "Gettysburg" (1993).
On a serious career roll, Daniels ventured back to lighter fare and blockbuster box office with his scene-stealing supporting role of Keanu Reeves' partner, Det. Harold 'Harry' Temple, in Jan De Bont's "Speed" (1994) and displayed a rarely-seen goofy side in the smash holiday hit "Dumb and Dumber" (1994). The year 1996 was a prolific one for Daniels, who further demonstrated his versatility by appearing in the ensemble of the edgy independent film "2 Days in the Valley," playing Anna Paquin's estranged father in the heartwarming "Fly Away Home," and going up against Glenn Close's Cruella DeVil in the live-action remake "101 Dalmatians." In the late 1980s as his star continued to rise, Daniels had deserted Hollywood and retreated to his hometown of Chelsea, MI, where he founded the Purple Rose Theater Company. From its inception, the company produced several of Daniels' own plays throughout the 1990s and beyond, including "Shoe Man," "The Vast Difference" and "The Kingdom's Coming." Daniels made his feature directorial debut with the locally themed comedy "Escanaba in da Moonlight" (2001), adapted from his stage play about a hunting trip gone slightly awry. The film was self-distributed in Michigan in 2001 to little fanfare, though his second outing as writer-director proved more successful. Daniel's "Super Sucker," a comedy about rival vacuum cleaner salesmen, won a slot at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and walked away with its Audience Award for Best Feature.
Although he no longer lived there, Hollywood continued to beckon. Daniels continued to walk the hit-and-miss path of playing both leading and character roles, alternately appearing in bombs like the film remake of the 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian" (1999) and in moving roles in popular films such as "Pleasantville" (1998), in which he played the lonely soda shop owner Mr. Johnson, who lives in the artificial, black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom and who strikes up an unexpected and Technicolor romance with a married woman (Joan Allen). In between big screen projects, Daniels also turned in exemplary work in several television efforts, including playing George Washington in the A&E telepic "The Crossing" (2000). In 2002, Daniels appeared in Clint Eastwood's detective thriller "Blood Work" and made a renewed impression on audiences in a brief but memorable role as Ed Harris' former lover in Steven Daldry's "The Hours" and in the reprisal of his role as Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in "Gods and Generals," Ron Maxwell's 2003 prequel to "Gettysburg." For his next movie, Daniels stepped behind and in front of the camera by directing and starring in the slapstick "Super Sucker" (2002), about a door-to-door vacuum salesman who discovers his product can double as a sex toy for dissatisfied housewives. Daniels also helped finance the film, but it unfortunately failed to earn wide distribution and went straight to video after a brief appearance in theaters.
After a turn in the acclaimed telepic adaptation of Mitch Albom's bestseller "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" (ABC, 2004), Daniels next appeared as a grieving father in "Imaginary Heroes" (2005). Co-starring Sigourney Weaver and Emile Hirsch, the film depicted a family mourning the death of their eldest son (Kip Pardue) who killed himself when the pressure of being a high school swimming champion became too much to handle. In "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), Daniels played the preacher father of a young girl (AnnaSophia Robb) who comes to live with him for the summer despite their troubled relationship caused by her mother's desertion. He next had a nicely etched supporting turn in George Clooney's second directorial effort "Good Night and Good Luck" (2005) playing straight-talking network CBS news executive Sid Mickelson, followed by strong notices in writer-director Noah Baumbach's autobiographical "The Squid and the Whale" (2005), the story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce. Daniels returned to high-concept studio fare with a supporting role in the one-note comedy, "RV" (2006), playing the father in a family of fulltime RV travelers whose friendliness and constant singing drive another family headed by an overworked executive (Robin Williams) more crazy than they make themselves. Daniels didn't have to look far for inspiration for the role; in real life, he had been an RV enthusiast and drove his own recreational vehicle to and from set. Despite poor reviews, "RV" took its opening weekend with a $16 million haul at the box office.
Meanwhile, Daniels was set to be seen in "Infamous" (2006), the second biopic in as many years about Truman Capote (Toby Jones) and his six year stint in Kansas investigating a grisly quadruple homicide that led to his writing In Cold Blood. Daniels played Alvin Dewey, the agent who befriends Capote and helps grant the writer unprecedented access to information and the prisoners. After "Infamous" came and went without so much as a whimper, Daniels delivered a typically competent performance in Scott Frank's directorial debut "The Lookout" (2007), playing the blind roommate of a former high school hockey star (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brain damaged from a car accident who is recruited by a group of thieves to help rob a bank. In 2009, Daniels returned to the stage for the Broadway production of Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage," earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. Back on the screen, he was a struggling novelist who befriends a high school girl (Emma Stone) who gives him back his confidence in the indie drama "Paper Man" (2010). After playing a university professor in "Howl" (2010), Daniels starred as a news anchor in Aaron Sorkin's cable drama "The Newsroom" (HBO, 2012- ), for which he received SAG and Golden Globe nods for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
omally
Footballguy
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Yeah that's what I was thinking of when I brought up the defense of picks. JML was defending the character. I kind of missed it the first time but was re-reading the thread.
However, the header is "Portrayal" and all other categories under that header focus on the actor's performaces (hence portrayal).
Obviously some thought is was about the fictional parent role not the portrayal, since I'm not sure a cartoon fish would have been drafted otherwise. Some work both ways, some don't.
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Doug B
Footballguy
Makeup pick:
19.05: Jake & Jesus Shuttleworth play one-on-one in He Got Game (Sports Scene)
"You gonna take that Lo-Jac off?"
"Don't come off, son"
...
19.05: Jake & Jesus Shuttleworth play one-on-one in He Got Game (Sports Scene)
"You gonna take that Lo-Jac off?"
"Don't come off, son"
...
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Kumerica made this exact pick in the 7th round. Pick again.
Well he needs to throw it back. I wanted this one.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
#skip
timschochet
Footballguy
I will judge parent. Sorry but I want the parent to be a "good" parent. The reason is because that's what was implied at the start of the draft, and if we allow bad parents now it's unfair to those who have already drafted.
krista4
Footballguy
Good point.
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
Not sure what the clock is, but I think we're looking something like this:
AcerFC said:
timschochet
Footballguy
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World- car chase-
Write up later
Perhaps we should go off clock today in light of what's going on in Boston? People might not be in the mood for this right now
Write up later
Perhaps we should go off clock today in light of what's going on in Boston? People might not be in the mood for this right now
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
AcerFC
Footballguy
tish155
Footballguy
i hope everyone involved is safe, my fiance's brother was there and thankfully unharmed. I dont understand whats going on....Pick if you want, skip if you want, but no clock.
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