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Oct 2019
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‘The Shining’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fe...

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All work and no play makes Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan dull boys as they rewatch Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic, ‘The Shining,’ starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall

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