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Sternly handsome, he resembles a noir version of Paul McCartney.

It's a film noir version of the Bill Murray comedy "Groundhog Day".

Backstage, he and Ms. Menzel vamp up Elphaba -- like a noir version of Frenchy dolling up Sandy in "Grease".

A young fighter (Jeff Bridges) and an old one (Stacy Keach) from skid row rattle around Stockton, Calif., in John Huston's fine noir version of Leonard Gardner's novel.

Admittedly Rowson's brilliant noir version of The Waste Land was something of a piss-take, and TSE had expressed the wish that no one should write a biography (fat chance).

("The Big Valley," starring Barbara Stanwyck as the family matriarch in black leather gloves and chaps, was just a film noir version of "Bonanza" -- class tension and the frisson of incest).

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Set at the height of the Jim Crow era, Robert Zemeckis's pioneering fantasy noir presents a version of LA where "toons" face daily discrimination and are forced to live in their own, segregated district.

Sonia Rykiel embellishes leather belts with square rhinestones ($315 at Kirna Zabete) and Noir offers suede versions at Calypso ($105 to $130) as well as rhinestone-strewn flip-flops ($60).

It's this century's version of noir, or maybe it's the opposite of noir.

So perhaps it's not so strange to find Peace's version of noir now making its way back over the ocean.

And at the end of scenes, as the lights slowly dim and a solo trumpet or saxophone plays plaintively in the distance, "Simpatico" seems more like a reverie about film noir than a stage version of the real thing.

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