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I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

Ernie Harwell

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Ernie Harwell
Age: 92 †
Born: 1918
Born: January 25
Died: 2010
Died: May 4
Journalist
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
Washington
Georgia
William Earnest Harwell
Thinking
Producer
People
Producers
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Wear
Movies
Either
Found
Beret
Think
Naughty

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