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It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Producer
Newburgh
New York
James Brendan Patterson
James B. Patterson
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