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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Delighted
Rare
Turned
Fool
Nobody
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