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   elaich to diane   
   Re: Dirty Work   
   09 Mar 07 02:33:20   
   
   From: a@b.c   
      
   "diane"  wrote in news:1172946896.206088.140990   
   @s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > Witness the fact that it took 33 years for Martin Scorsese   
   > to get a Best Director award, and something like 30 years   
   > for Paul Newman to get Best Actor, or the fact that there   
   > was a gap of something like 50 years between African-   
   > American leads to win big awards.   
      
   And it took Brian Wilson until 2004 to win a Grammy, for a song he wrote in   
   1967, and had tried to destroy by burning the master tapes.   
      
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