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  "path": "/2026/02/i-would-have-paid-to-hear-him-read.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T01:03:00.001Z",
  "site": "https://40yrs.blogspot.com",
  "tags": [
    "Robert Duvall has died at the age of 85",
    "The Seven Percent Solution",
    "_The Judge_",
    "in a statement"
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  "textContent": "Actor Robert Duvall has died at the age of 85.\n\nA marvelous and elegant actor who could convey with his eyes what might take another actor a soliloquy to convey.\n\nHe is my favorite John Watson, having played against Nicol Williamson's paranoid drug-addicted Sherlock Holmes in  _The Seven Percent Solution_.  (I always hated Nigel Bruce's buffoonish portrayal)\n\nAlso, go and watch _The Judge_, it's a great film.\n\n> Robert Duvall, who drew from a seemingly bottomless reservoir of acting craftsmanship to transform himself into a business-focused Mafia lawyer, a faded country singer, a cynical police detective, a bullying Marine pilot, a surfing-obsessed Vietnam commander, a mysterious Southern recluse and scores of other film, stage and television characters, died on Sunday. He was 95.\n>\n> His death was announced in a statement by his wife, Luciana Duvall, who said he had died at home. She gave no other details. He had long lived on a sprawling horse farm in The Plains, in Fauquier County, Va., west of Washington.\n\nThere is a void in the theater world.",
  "title": "I Would Have Paid to Hear Him Read a Phone Book",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-17T05:37:55.051Z"
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