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I’m not an actor, I like working at night, and I’m not going to let you bully me into becoming a Type A lunatic.

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Eight years later, he’d be shot by a lunatic carrying “The Catcher in the Rye.”

The film, brilliantly designed, envisions a near-future in which Manhattan has become a walled-off prison, the island’s borders lethally policed but its interior surrendered to lunatics and criminals.

Matters turn, ahem, even graver when a guard from a nearby lunatic asylum arrives to announce a madman has escaped.

"I think the Colombian authorities, when it comes to, like, the military and the police, are still very pro-American. The only problem in Colombia is a lunatic president," Rubio told reporters.

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