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Biographies

Preston Sturges

Mike Judge


Trey Parker and Matt Stone


Charlie Chaplin


Mae West


The Marx Brothers


Morgan Spurlock


Hal Ashby


Edgar Wright


Keenen Ivory Wayans


Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker


Peter Sellers


Vittorio De Sica


Neil Simon


Robert Altman


Nora Ephron


Paul Thomas Anderson


The Ferrelly Brothers


John Landis


Bobcat Goldthwait


Alexander Payne


Billy Wilder


Richard Pryor


Mel Brooks


Eddie Murphy


Steve Martin

Carl Reiner

Stanley Kramer

The Coen Brothers









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