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Hollywood laws blur lines between fact and fiction
By Aline Mosby. Studios fear privacy lawsuits as films draw on real lives like Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz. Ed ward G Robinson and John Garfield are linked to onscreen likenesses while others such as Rasputin and the Egg and I faced suits. Some cases win, most lose.
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