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People watch romantic comedies for one main reason: to experience the vicarious thrill of seeing a Hollywood fantasy version of love that can never (or, perhaps, rarely) be found in real life.  In a romantic comedy, …

If Hollywood films are all merely bits of magical mythmaking, then the musicals of the 1930s are their apotheosis.  In a world of romantic comedies and westerns, it is not to much of a reach …