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Monday, September 9, 2013

Dexter 8.10: Watch Out, Buenos Aires

Just two more episodes of Dexter left after tonight's 8.10, and we learned all kinds of things -

Dexter wants to go to Argentina with Harrison and Hannah. This is indicative not only of Dexter wanting to save Hannah, but wanting to be with her, and live the semblance of a normal life. But it won't be easy - with Daniel Vogel a danger on the one hand, and Marshall Cooper, who doesn't miss a beat, hunting Hannah on the other.
One person who won't be a threat to Dexter's plans for a happier future is Deb - not only has she thoroughly bought into the idea of Dexter and Hannah being together, she's lying her best - to Cooper - to make it happen. Believable? I think so - Deb is coming to realize that Dexter far away is the best way she can move to a more normal life.
Good to see Deb and Quinn getting together. The only reason Deb broke it off with him in the first place is she knew that Quinn would learn about Dexter sooner or later if Deb and Quinn continued together. But with Dexter in Argentina, that would no longer be a problem.
Angel, though one of my favorite supporting characters on this show, talks too much. He talks too much to Cooper, and talks too much to Dr. Vogel. Just saying.
And here I've got to admit I was wrong about Vogel - including right up until the time that Daniel slits her throat and kills her. I was pretty sure that Vogel was luring Dexter to where she was so Daniel could get the drop on Dexter. It's a measure of how well this season has been plotted that this is at least the second time a person who was acting suspiciously turns out to be a victim - and, in both cases, killed by the same person, Daniel. My apologies, Dr. Vogel. RIP.

So where does this leave us? The coming attractions tell us Dexter and Hannah make it to the airport. Will they board the plane with Harrison and make it to Argentina?

My guess is we won't find out until the very last moment of the series.

Reviews of Season 2: Dexter's Back: A Preview and Dexter Meets Heroes and 6. Dexter and De-Lila-h and 7. Best Line About Dexter - from Lila and 8. How Will Dexter Get Out of This? and The Plot Gets Tighter and Sharper and Dex, Doakes, and Harry and Deb's Belief Saves Dex and All's ... Well

See also about Season 1: First Place to Dexter

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Boardwalk Empire 4.1: Fame and Power

A good, atmospheric return of Boardwalk Empire with episode 4.1 tonight, with stories in Atlantic City and Chicago that start the pressure cookers simmering.

My favorite was actually in Chicago, where Al Capone gets upset over a story about him in the paper. He has two points of grievance. He was called "factotum" in Johnny Torrio's organization, and the story spelled his name wrong. This harkens back to George M. Cohan's quip that "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right" - because, in Al's case, they didn't spell his name right. So Al's furious about both.

Frank Capone provides the counter-argument, telling Al that he should be happy that he's not the subject of media attention - or the press, as the media was referred to in those days - and Al should bask in the unimportance that the newspaper story assigned to him. But Al makes it clear - both to Frank, and eventually, and much more graphically, to the newspaper reporter - that fame is just as important to him as power.

Mobsters - including all the guys back east, Nucky, Rothstein, Masseria, and the Younger Turks Lucky and Meyer - are certainly all interested in power and money. Lucky Luciano will go on to seek fame as well as fortune, and along with Al will typify the gangster hungry for fame that we saw later in the 20th century with Joe Colombo and John Gotti, who liked the limelight so much that he even gave big smiles in his mug shots. Boardwalk Empire now in effect is giving Al Capone just what he wanted, a strong supporting role, with lots of screen time, which complements all the TV and movie time he posthumously received in various renditions of The Untouchables and other television shows and movies.

As for Nucky, he just wants money and power - in particular, confirming his domain in southern New Jersey, as he makes clear to Rothstein, Masseria, Luciano, and Lansky in a pivotal meeting he assembles. It's important to note that Rothstein and Masseria's days are numbered, as is Torrio's (who will be badly wounded not killed) in Chicago, even though none of these guys of course realize that as yet. But we the audience do, and it will be fun to see when in the story of Boardwalk Empire their time at the top expires.

The ambience is scenic - boozy, honky-tonk, frontal nudity, and death dished out at the drop of a hat, or sometimes as a result of careful planning, as we see with Richard's revenge rampage. Neither Margaret nor Van Alden, though, are in evidence as yet, so the season is really just getting started, with pieces assembling on the board as staticky radios and molten jazz play on.

Note: Watch here for my sneak preview reviews - with no spoilers - of the next three episodes. They'll be posted during the week, with the full recap and review to follow after the episodes air on Sunday nights.

See also Boardwalk Empire 4.1: Sneak Preview Review

And see also Boardwalk Empire 3.1: Happy News Year 1923 ... Boardwalk Empire 3.2: Gasoline and the White Rock Girl ... Boardwalk Empire 3.3: The Showgirl and The Psycho ... Boardwalk Empire 3.5: "10 L'Chaim" ... Boardwalk Empire 3.7: Deadly Gillian ... Boardwalk Empire 3.8: Andrew Mellon ... Boardwalk Empire 3.9: Impaired Nucky

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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Hell on Wheels 3.6: The Man in Charge

A helluva Hell on Wheels 3.6 tonight - the best of this already excellent season - with a double game-changing twist and an appearance by Ulysses S. Grant, on his way to becoming President but currently Secretary of War, which is far more than a cameo and in fact plays the crucial pivotal role.

Most of the episode is devoted to the unfolding of Durant's crafty plan - to get Bohannan to admit, one way or the other, that he's a killer as well as a railroad man, and therein get him to resign if the board doesn't fire him. The one flaw in his plan is that Grant is part of the panel that hears the testimony of Bohannan's killings.

Bohannan soon decides that he can't deny what he is, and he finds his resignation, as well as his coming to terms with what he his, liberating. He even kisses Louise while the two are dancing a whirling two-step, all the more interesting because she has just revealed to Durant that the reason Horace Greeley - publisher of the New York Tribune - sent Louise away out West, away from New York, was because she had had an "indiscretion" with Greeley's attractive daughter. And Bohannan confirms to himself and the audience that he's still got the killer instinct, when he shoots a man dead who came to exact retribution for Bohannan's killing of his brother.

But Bohannan's a killer with righteousness on his side - the first brother deserved killing, since he had taken part in the slaughter of Bohannan's family, and the second brother, after all, did come to Hell on Wheels to kill Bohannan. And Grant realizes righteousness this too, which sets up the second game change, after the first game change of Bohannan resigning. Grant can't stomach Durant and his lies, and talks Bohannan into resuming the running of the railroad.

There are great lines throughout this hour, ranging from Grant's almost poetic talk of a Union general and a Confederate soldier being the best way of uniting the country - literally and figuratively - by completing the railroad, to Bohannan's comment to Ruth that sin takes the longest to pack.

And just for good measure, we finally see which the way the Swede is heading. Not turning over a new leaf - as I was half-contemplating last week - but going full-fledge psycho with his murder of the Mormon couple who had taken him along with them on the trail.

Not a pleasure to see, but necessary to know, in a show that demonstrates, as Grant himself says, that Ulysses S. Grant was smarter than he looked. So, we might say, is Hell on Wheels, though the truth it's been one smart show pretty much all along.

See also Hell on Wheels 3.1-2: Bohannan in Command ... Hell on Wheels 3.3: Talking and Walking ... Hell on Wheels 3.4: Extreme Lacrosse ... Hell on Wheels 3.5: The Glove

And see also Hell on Wheels: Blood, Sweat, and Tears on the Track, and the Telegraph ... Hell on Wheels 1.6: Horse vs. Rail ... Hell on Wheels 1.8: Multiple Tracks ... Hell on Wheels 1.9: Historical Inevitable and Unknown ... Hell on Wheels Season One Finale: Greek Tragedy, Western Style

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Boardwalk Empire 4.1: Sneak Preview Review

Hey, I just saw Boardwalk Empire 4.1 - courtesy of a screener provided to me by Starpulse - so herewith is a strictly nonspoiler review, with a proper recap/review to follow after the episode actually airs on HBO tomorrow night.

Fans of the ambience won't be disappointed. You'll see people complaining about radio reception - which after all was still new in those halcyon days - and a reporter pounding on a manual typewriter. There's tap dancing and a little Busby Berkeley-type choreography on stage. There's plenty of top frontal nudity, and some sex to go along with it.

If you like the point-blank violence of the show, you won't be disappointed either. At least five people are killed, in various ways - none of them soft - and for various reasons. Revenge, self-defense, and typical Boardwalk Empire out-of left-field death meted out are all in play.

All of our favorite real historical mobsters are on hand. As I always think when I see this show, the top-level mobsters - Arnold Rothstein, Joe Masseria, and JohnnyTorrio - are all due to be killed or badly wounded in real history, not too far in the future from where Boardwalk Empire is now. Since the show is historical drama not documentary, anything is now possible regarding when these bloody changes of the guard will take place, and this lends an extra tension to the story.

All of our non-historically known characters who survived last season are on hand, too - with the exception of two - but I'll tell you more about that tomorrow night. What I can tell you now is that the series is back in fine, percolating form.

See also Boardwalk Empire 3.1: Happy News Year 1923 ... Boardwalk Empire 3.2: Gasoline and the White Rock Girl ... Boardwalk Empire 3.3: The Showgirl and The Psycho ... Boardwalk Empire 3.5: "10 L'Chaim" ... Boardwalk Empire 3.7: Deadly Gillian ... Boardwalk Empire 3.8: Andrew Mellon ... Boardwalk Empire 3.9: Impaired Nucky

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Luther 3.4: Go Ask Alice

A thoroughly satisfying conclusion of these four nights of Luther with episode 3.4, and the hope that we'll be seeing Idris Elba again in the title role along with all the supporting characters who survived.

Satisfying because it was to good see Stark get what he deserved from the shotgun of Tom. Satisfying because Luther made some good and right choices, only some of which were in his control.

For example, in the scene on the roof, where Tom with shotgun in hand asks Luther to choose who will die - Alice the evil genius or Mary the pixie - Luther after saying repeatedly he can't choose, says Alice should die. Now I think Luther would be much happier and better with Alice in the long run than Mary, and he knows that, too, but because he's a such a fundamentally decent human being, he can't sentence Mary to death.

And, because the universe is ultimately on Luther's side, despite the terrible counter-examples it constantly dishes out to him, both Alice and Mary survive - Alice because Mary bravely pushes the shotgun away from Alice for moment, and Alice because she uses that moment to put a nail in Tom's neck, a nail she cleverly took from a wall a little earlier.

And this now leaves Luther with another choice to make: with Mary and Alice both alive and kicking, whom will he go with? Alice reliably sets it up beautifully, letting the police think Mary is Alice, escaping, and getting a note to Luther to meet her on the bridge.

Luther first goes to see Mary in the police van - she'll be released soon, when the police realize she's not Alice - and Mary in effect tells Luther to go to Alice. Not only does Luther know Alice is right for him, but Mary does, too.

And this is about as much of a happy ending as well ever see at the end of a season of Luther. But it's more than happy enough for me, because it's the way television should more often be, with the hero making the dangerous, unsafe choice. I'm looking forward to a next season someday, before too long.

See also Luther: Between the Wire and the Shield ... Luther 3.1: Into the Blender ... Luther 3.2: Success ... Luther 3.3: The Perils of Being an Enemy

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Friday, September 6, 2013

The Bridge 1.9: Trade-Off

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Luther 3.3: The Perils of Being an Enemy

A stunningly powerful Luther 3.3 that connected on all sorts of levels, like a kick in the solar plexus.

The new villain is Tom, a classic vigilante killer who gets the drop on Luther, but lets him go, because he doesn't want to kill him. After all, as Tom tells Luther, they're on the same side, both hunting bad guys. But Luther can't accept that, because he's just a cop, he says, not judge and jury.

Now actually, as we know from the past two seasons, and even this one, that's not completely true. When sufficiently enraged, Luther's always ready to mete out severe corporal punishment. In that sense, Luther is a British Jack Bauer, though his quarry are less apocalyptic, and Luther hasn't (yet) killed his boss for the greater good.

But Luther is an idealist, which leads to his sometimes going overboard in trying to bring the wrongdoers to justice, and also causes him to sometimes have too much faith in good people responding to their better angels. His attempt, tonight, to get a woman who was raped as a girl by Tom's hostage - to get Tom to free the rapist rather than kill him - was bound to fail. Put on television to plead with Tom from afar for the rapist's life, she instead implores Tom to kill her rapist. Who can blame her?

And, so, when Luther and Ripley - who have now thoroughly reconciled - come to the scene to stop Tom from hanging the rapist, you just know it's not going to turn out well. But it turns out far worse than that.

Luther literally saves the rapist from hanging by holding him so the rope that Tom has left the rapist hanging from doesn't take its toll. He does this in an act of extraordinary courage, battling off the crowd who are punching him and kicking him in an attempt to dislodge him from the rapist.

Ripley, on Luther's instruction, is off in pursuit of Tom. British police aren't usually armed, so Tom gets the drop on Ripley, as he previously had on Luther. Tom pleads with Ripley to walk away. Ripley says he can't. And Tom responds by shooting Ripley dead. He's not as lucky as Luther, though luck is the last thing you could say Luther had in this story tonight.

And there this dynamite of a television episode might have ended, with Tom running away, and Luther left grieving by Ripley's body. But there's one more kick in the stomach left. Mary the blonde, waiting for Luther in his flat, sees a man standing out in the street outside Luther's window. It's Tom, come to exact some further retribution from Luther, for not accepting Tom's request not to make Tom his enemy. And as a grace note to this peril, we hear a few bars of Robert Plant's "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" ... that hauntingly evocative song from Boss. (This is apparently the season for series borrowing songs from other series, with Dexter playing "Make Your Own Kind of Music" of Lost fame.) To the sicko murdering vigilante Tom, Luther has become Satan.

We'll learn how this plays out tomorrow night in the concluding episode of this short wallop of third season.

See also Luther: Between the Wire and the Shield ... Luther 3.1: Into the Blender ... Luther 3.2: Success

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Broadchurch 1.5: Good Loving and Almost Loving

One thing becomes even more crystal clear in Broadchurch 1.5: things are not what they seem.

As a prime case in point: The gent whose presumed pedophiliac past made him too obvious to be a real suspect in Danny's killing turns out to have a big reveal - which makes him obviously not a suspect in this case. He served a year in jail because, when he was in his late 30s, he slept with a girl just a few weeks short of her 16th birthday, or the legal age in England. When this gets screamed across the headlines, he commits suicide - the first casualty in this case after Danny - though, I wouldn't be stunned if he was thrown to his death rather than jumped.

The search for Danny's killer continues without much apparent progress, but because we don't even have motive yet for his murder. Even pedophilia isn't completely removed - some other male adult could have killed Danny out of perverted lust. But the most likely motive for Danny murder is that he saw, heard, or knew something that someone didn't want Danny to know, and he was silenced. What makes this series so good is that this killer is no doubt hiding in plain sight, right before our eyes, on our screen.

There's some good loving and almost loving in episode 1.5, too. The young reporter sleeps with the hot-shot reporter from the big city, and even gets off a good line when she tells him in the morning to go through the "back door". And, Hardy at least asks Becca to sleep with him - asking her, after she comes into his room, if she would like to "relax" with him - and although she demurs, it's a satisfying scene, because it shows a welcome humanity in Hardy that we haven't seen before. And although Beth and Mark aren't exactly sleeping together again as yet, it's good to see them reach a bit of emotional rapprochement as they look at pictures of Danny.

As for the prime suspects: my current thinking is maybe Chloe's boyfriend - with or without Chloe - but that's a wild guess, based on no real evidence, which leaves Broadchurch an increasingly intriguing blank book.

See also Broadchurch: Powerful Viewing ... Broadchurch 1.2: Brooding Excellence ... Broadchurch 1.3: The Spy ... The Broadchurch 1.4: The Unusual Suspects

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Luther 3.2: Success

Luther 3.2 was even better than 3.1 - because Luther was against all odds successful, on at least three fronts. And yet somehow we know he hasn't faced the worst of what he will be facing. In part because there are two episodes left, in part because it's in the DNA of Luther that he can never be at peace, never be really or totally successful.

He gave it a good try tonight. The serial killer who's bald walked right past Luther. He was wearing a wig, but was recognizable to the audience. And something about him was recognizable to Luther, who pursues the killer - Paul Ellis - but can't quite get him this time. That's for next time, later that evening, when Luther has figured it out, and uses the last of the three nurses to get Ellis - who already has two of the nurses subdued and ready to be killed. Score a big one for Luther.

Next, Luther confronts Ripley with Erin and Stark - of the Judas squad - just as Ripley seems on the verge of giving Stark whatever evidence he needs to get Luther. The interview is stopped cold, Luther takes the tape, and tells Stark that if he tries to take Luther down, Luther will take him down even further. A few minutes later, Luther listens to the tape and discovers that Ripley said only good things about Luther. Excellent fake-out on the audience - though I found it hard to believe that Ripley would go against Luther, and said so in my review yesterday. Still, I was pretty convinced about Ripley's perfidy. Score another big win for Luther.

And, just for sweet dessert, Luther gets together with the blonde he ran into in the first episode. Success again!

So what's left to go wrong for Luther? Go ask Alice - she's due to appear any time now. And Stark and Erin are not likely to fold up and go away. And the U.K. must be crawling with other killers.

And I heard somewhere that things start picking up in episode 3.

See also Luther: Between the Wire and the Shield ... Luther 3.1: Into the Blender

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Luther 3.1: Into the Blender

Idris Elba is back in his second best role on television as Luther - his best was Stringer Bell on The Wire, so you can see how highly I regard Luther. Its first season was scalding, pull-no-punches, brilliant guts-in-your-face British detective work, with twists and turns that kept your heart in your mouth and your seat on the edge, and the second season was almost as good.

The third season - a short one, just four episodes on four nights this week - is off to a great start. Luther is typically not only hunting psychos and vicious killers but is the target of what we here in the US would call an Internal Affairs investigation himself. Not only that, but the cops investigating Luther have enlisted his loyal partner DS Ripley - not completely believable at first, but making a depressing, infuriating sense by the end of this first episode.

And not only that, but Luther's opponents are no dummies or cartoon-stupid police. When Ripley realizes that Luther might be suspicious of Ripley being in a car with DSI Erin Gray, the high level inspector who is one of the two leading the investigation against Luther, Erin starts snogging (one of my favorite British expressions) with Ripley. A smart move.

And, typically and excruciatingly, the investigation into Luther not only endangers him, but the people he's trying to save - that is, the victims of the stone cold killer Luther is investigating. Luther manages to put a call into a couple who are about to be attacked, to warn them - but he's interrupted by Ripley's badgering and his phone is left hanging. A few minutes later, we see the devastating results.

What makes Luther stand out, in addition to Idris Elba's deftly powerful performance, is the way almost no one bars any holds. So the most memorable scene in tonight's episode probably goes to another suspect, another killer, but not a bad person, who, receiving a call from Luther asking him to come in the next day so the police can get his fingerprints, put his fingers into a blender. One way of not worrying about any fingerprints you may have left at the scene.

Not for the faint of heart, but for anyone who likes a story unafraid to confront human nature in all of its depths.

See also Luther: Between the Wire and the Shield

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Monday, September 2, 2013

Under the Dome 1.11: Benefactor

Finally an episode - 1.11 - of Under the Dome that moves the story along - somewhat.

Julia is shot by Maxine, and may even have died for a moment - medically - but Barbie brings her back with his military medical prowess. But was it really Barbie, as Joe thinks? Or is it actually the dome, bestowing some goodness on Chester's Mill, after throwing a fit, in the form of an angry storm, because Junior left the circle of four?

I'll just note that I can't blame Junior completely. Even though Angie's justified in being so cold to him - after all, he did keep her hostage through a bunch of episodes - she could have least been a little nicer to him when he told her that the two of them were connected. Because they are connected, as part of the four, which means that the four are all also connected as twosomes and trios, despite what Angie said. Just sayin'.

But back to the story moving forward. Maxine lived by gun, and died by the gun, which was a good thing for the story, because her addition didn't really add much, certainly to not the metaphysics of the dome. I'm not completely clear, though, if Maxine's mother died - I thought I saw maybe a spark of life in her when Maxine fished her out of the water. How could that be? Maybe more of the dome as benefactor?

But one way in which the story is moving unambiguously forward is what's happening to Barbie and Big Jim. After adding another two murders to his belt - these ones at least somewhat justified, Maxine and her henchman - Big Jim is able to pin them and Julia's shooting on poor Barbie, who is now on the run. He's able to outrun Sheriff Linda's gun, who's not only not very quick with her reasoning but not a very good shot, either.

But in a good last twist, the dome tells the four what they apparently must do to secure their future outside of the dome. That would be: stabbing Big Jim to death. Which I hope doesn't happen and expect won't, because he's one of the best characters on the show.

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Breaking Bad Final Episodes #4: Old Yeller

Well, not only Babylon 5, but, more significantly, Old Yeller got shout-outs in tonight's brilliant, taut, final episode #4 of Breaking Bad.

The reference is to that loyal dog - Old Yeller - who turned rabid and had to be put down, much to Walter Brennan's heartbreak (wait - his song was "Old Rivers," never mind) and everyone in the audiences for that classic tear-jerking 1957 movie.

In tonight's Breaking Bad, Saul tells Walter that Jesse is like Old Yeller, a loyal dog of a partner who now has to be put down. Walter won't have Saul's metaphor or its suggestion to kill Jesse. But apropos the name and inevitable theme of the series, things now break from bad to worse.

Before the hour is over, Skylar - aptly being called Skeisenberg this season by many fans - is urging Walt to take care of Jesse - by which she clearly means and spells out, murder him. Hank doesn't give a damn about Jesse's survival either - it would be just fine with Hank if Walter kills Jesse in cold blood, as long as Hank has it on his recorder.

In the end, ironically, it's Jesse's unwarranted paranoia - unwarranted, in this case - that gets Walter to start the ball rolling on what he wants to be Jesse's death. Jesse wrongly thinks a tough guy - bald like Walter - was brought to their meeting by Walter to kill Jesse. Turns out he's just a guy waiting for his kid.

But in some ways the most powerfully heartbreaking moment in tonight's episode comes when Walter, Jr. says goodnight to his father by the pool in the hotel. First he hugs him. Then Walt tells Walt, Jr "I'll be up in a minute." And Walt Jr answers, "see you tomorrow."

Even Walt's loving son knows his father is lying - just about every time he opens his mouth. But Walt did cough tonight - which suggests he may be telling the truth about his recurring cancer being bad. Though, hey, I'm still hoping maybe he'll beat it after all.

See also: Breaking Bad Final Episodes #1: Walt vs. Hank ... Breaking Bad Final Episodes #2: Skylar and Jesse ... Breaking Bad Final Episodes #3: The Ultimate Lie

And see also Breaking Bad Season 5 Premiere: Riveting Entropy ... Breaking Bad 5.3: Deal with the Devil ... Breaking Bad 5.7: Exit Mike ... Breaking Bad Final Half-Season Finale

And see also My Prediction about Breaking Bad ... Breaking Bad Season 4 Debuts ... Breaking Bad 4.2: Gun and Question ... Breaking Bad 4.11: Tightening Vice ... Breaking Bad 4.12: King vs. King ... Breaking Bad Season 4 Finale: Deceptive Flowers

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e-mail received from a reader:
Dear Paul, I just dreamed of airships flying between raindrops. I just returned from 2042 CE, where I sold my hardcover copy of The Plot to Save Socrates for seventy million Neo-Euros, because it had your response to this e-mail from way back in 2007 scotch-taped onto the inside of the cover. A Paul Levinson collector paid top Neo-Euro, because of the authentic archaic e-mail printout from you. It turns out that not many of your e-mails from before your tenure as CEO of HBO/Cinemax and terms as United Nations Secretary General will survive that far into the future. So, please respond to this e-mail, to help found my great-grandchildren's fortune. My Will will stipulate that they must share with your great grandchildren. Thanks! Tom

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