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Maybe with Californication the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.
David Duchovny
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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
Actor
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Film Producer
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New York City
New York
David William Duchovny
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