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Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

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Tim Reid
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 19
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Timothy Lee Reid
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