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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Thomas Swick
When you meet a famous person, especially someone you have long admired, you want to have something original to say. Straight adulation has to get old over time. (I don't know; I'm just assuming here.) A few months back, as I drove toward a meeting with the filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, I thought I had a pretty good opening: "I used your screenplays to teach myself Polish."
It was in the early `80s; I had gone to Poland to pursue a woman I'd met in London. Hania spoke excellent English, and was not all that concerned about me picking up Polish, which she saw as being of little use outside her homeland. But I was of the anti-Ugly American school, a firm believer in my duty...
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