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A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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Birth: | 4th October, 1941 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Writer |
Roy Alton Blount, Jr. is an American writer. Best known as a humorist, Blount is also a reporter, speaker and versifier who claims that he can't act but did appear as himself in a cameo in "Treme," and is heartbrokenly unable to make music in any form yet performs in an ill-defined capacity with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers.
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