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A Minnesota physics professor's life unravels while three rabbis explain nothing.

The Odyssey in Depression-era Mississippi with a soundtrack that outsold the film.

A maid of honour falls apart, at length, in the best comedy of its decade.

Two musicians in drag flee the mob with Marilyn Monroe; "nobody's perfect".

Gershwin, black-and-white New York and the bench under the Queensboro Bridge.