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" Over the span of a 40-year career, John Carpenter has made some of the most important horror, sci-fi, and action movies \u2014 Halloween, Escape from New York, The Thing, They Live \u2014 that balance a no-holds-barred love of shock (once you see The Thing&amp;#039;s dog-alien hybrid scene, you&amp;#039;ll never shake it) with a deft portrayal of human-scale drama on par with any &amp;quot;serious&amp;quot; director of his era. Mega-fan Robert Rodriguez, no slouch himself in the movie-making department, is launching a new series called &amp;quot;I was a punk. I didn&amp;#039;t know anything. I thought I did, but I didn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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