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On Movies: In 'Trumbo,' Bryan Cranston plays a big man in a bad time for Hollywood

TORONTO - Bryan Cranston had to play it big in Trumbo because, well, Dalton Trumbo was big. The Hollywood screenwriter, blacklisted in the late 1940s but determined to keep his family fed and clothed by cranking out screenplays under a cloak of pseudonyms, was a force to be reckoned with. He was bullish and voluble. He smoked. He drank. He was not shy with his opinions.

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