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Dick Cavett

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His English is just fine.
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In response to Sophia Loren's insistence that it was only because of a misunderstanding of English usage that Marcello Mastroianni said "To be a Latin Lover a man, above all, has to be a great f**ker — he has to be infallible and I'm not that. I often foul it up.

 
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