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Blake Edwards, master of joy and pain

The director of seven Pink Panther movies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses, 10, Victor/Victoria and S.O.B., died on Wednesday in Santa Monica at the age of 88, leaving a body of work that blended slapstick, farce and reality by turns painful, hilarious and painfully hilarious. Aljean Harmetz of The New York Times remembers the man and his work.

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