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Dennis Farina dies
Topic Started: Jul 23 2013, 12:35 PM (162 Views)
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Plenty of actors invest time doing research for their roles, but most of them had nothing on Dennis Farina. Farina, who died July 22 of a blood clot in his lung, spent nearly two decades as a Chicago cop, a career that led him to work as a consultant for director Michael Mann. Mann saw something in the raspy-voiced burglary cop, giving him a small part in his movie Thief in 1981, then casting him as star of his hard-boiled TV drama Crime Story.

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What does this have to do with Trayvon?
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He was a very natural actor. He made something that wasn't, look easy.
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One of my favorite scenes:

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