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Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones
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Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
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Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve (Julliard)
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Joe Montana and Charlie Weis
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Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames
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David Lynch and Peter Wolf
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Eliot Spitzer and Jim Cramer
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Dan Brown and Harlan Coben (Amherst)
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Frank O'Hara and Edward Gorey
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