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I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

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Charlemagne Palestine
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 15
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Brooklyn
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