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Artie Shaw

Clarinetist, bandleader, and curmudgeon...but kind of a right-on curmudgeon. Shaw quit playing music more than thirty years ago...just when he had what most might consider "it all": money, fame, beautiful wives (lots of them). Now he lives alone and writes novels and short stories. Dean Olsher visited him at home and has this report.

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