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No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.

More than five decades ago, comedian Jerry Lewis directed and starred in The Day the Clown Cried, a film about a German circus clown who is promised freedom if he leads Jewish children to their deaths ...