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www.boxoffice.com - : Screened at Toronto. After completing ''Smoke'' in spring 1994, director Wayne Wang and scripter Paul Auster realized they'd grown especially fond of their characters and proposed to Miramax and their producers that they retain the Brooklyn cigar shop location and available cast members to make another film. In a matter of days, rough scenarios were devised by Auster and Wang with the help of original cast members Harvey Keitel, Mel Gorham, Jose Zuniga, Giancarlo Esposito and Steve Gevedon; the two filmmakers then set about co-directing those loose improvisations, which include a host of celebrity cameos by the likes of Roseanne, Michael J. Fox and Lily Tomlin. Intercut with those scenes are videotaped interviews with real-life Brooklyn residents and a hilarious over-the-counter interview with singer Lou Reed, who offers perhaps the wittiest, off-the-cuff deadpan philosophizing about life in New York ever filmed. more...
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