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'Lonesome Jim,' Buscemi's Loveable Loser

Casey Affleck stars with young Jack Rovello (and Liv Tyler) in 'Lonesome Jim.'
Casey Affleck stars with young Jack Rovello (and Liv Tyler) in 'Lonesome Jim.'

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.