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and he was put in a boarding home where he learned to speak fluent French. He disliked the experience so much that upon his return to
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executive and his mother was a homemaker and part-time maid. His father is of Irish and
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beer playing hard luck football quarterback Elmer Bruker, a man that was on every winning Super Bowl team but never played. In 1997, he portrayed "The Hooded
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