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Publicist Claudia Gray, No Country for Old Men director/co-writer Joel Coen at last night’s Old Men party that followed a public screening at the historic Elgin theatre — Saturday, 9.8.07, 8:25 pm. Coen said Skywalker — i.e., George Lucas’s post-production facility in Marin County — has been the highest-quality screening room he’s seen No Country in.
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Ultimate No Country badass Javier Bardem at same No Country for Old Men party…”We are all lucky,” he said, evidently feeling that way and then some — Saturday, 9.8.07, 8:40 pm
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Clive Owen, Miramax chief Daniel Battsek at same gathering. Own sat directly behind me at Elgin screening, and laughed often.
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