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Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire was ahead of its time. Is that why it got the cold shoulder?

JL;DR SUMMARY Billy Wilder's 1961 film "One, Two, Three" was a flop at the time but is now seen as a prescient satire of the Cold War. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish AuthorsHollywoodCold WarSatireBilly WilderOne Two ThreeJames CagneyCoca ColaBerlin Wall

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