RIP "Michael Herr Dead: Author and 'Full Metal Jacket' Co-Writer Dies at 76 " Hollywood Reporter

"— Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel Dispatches and through such films as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 76...
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rapid-round-swiss-army-man-905874

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