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The memoir Kitchen Confidential is the basis for a recent biopic about what personality who died in 2018?

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The movie is called Tony.

Question 0

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Question 2

And by the way, did you know that the first widely sold rearview mirror was marketed as the “Cop Spotter”? Automotive mirrors had been tested in racing environments since the early 1910s, but they didn’t catch on until a decade later, when a Los Angeles inventor named Elmer Berger started marketing them as a way to dodge the five-O.

The Cop Spotter sold for $4—a steal, considering that speeding in L.A. in the ’20s could land you a $25 ticket plus jail time.

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