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Shawn Levy is a for­mer film crit­ic for The Ore­gon­ian and the best-sell­ing author of RAT PACK CON­FI­DEN­TIAL and PAUL NEW­MAN: A LIFE. He reviews movies for KGW-TV and lives in Port­land, Oregon.

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