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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
Barry Levinson
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Barry Levinson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 6
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They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
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There was a time when I said, I'm going to go do a television thing, after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, Television? Why are you going to go back to television? It's an interesting place.
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