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I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
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