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By Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix | January 19, 2006

They don’t give out awards for best titles, otherwise Albert Brooks’s Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World would be in the running. Instead, all it got him was trouble with the studio.

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Tags: Albert Brooks, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

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