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If this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town. But movies last forever, so Emily Watson will have to explain to her grandkids what she was doing as a dim private eye who pretzels the language ("You killed somebody dead") but solves a Chandleresque mystery. Rudolph (Afterglow) is the perp of the year's most un-sit-throughable caper. Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Nathan Lane and Will Patton are the accomplices. And you, poor viewer, are the victim.

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HILLARY CLINTON, saying in an interview on Sunday's "Meet the Press" that she'd be open to meeting with Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor, whose book on the 2008 presidential campaign comes out this week
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