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Johnny Mandel: Harper, 1966

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Marc Myers
Oct 07, 2015
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In 1966, Paul Newman starred in Harper, a film about a private investigator with a spent marriage who takes a challenging case 90 miles north of Los Angeles to get away from it all. In today's world, it's a TV pilot at best, but in the cool '60s, studios didn't need much of an excuse to put Newman in motion. [Photo above of composer-arranger Johnny Mand…

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