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If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon stories and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

William Monahan

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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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