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On Ben Gazzara's Unique Masculinity: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

by Miriam Bale

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) Directed by John CassavetesDecember 15 at Anthology Film Archives, part of its Ben Gazzara retrospective "They hated it. It broke my heart," Ben Gazzara once said about the first screening of The Killing of a…

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