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The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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