NEW YORK --- HBO's new film on newspaper columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill romanticizes an era in New York and journalism that feels like a long, long time ago. The fact that it's very recent history makes "Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists" partly a tragedy. The two men embodied a time when New York was a rollicking and complicated place, and each lived for the streets and stories of the little guys who made the city run. Every city had their own Breslins or Hamills, who made the powerful tremble or shake their fists. Their newspapers were required reading. Toward the end of the documentary, which premieres Monday at 8 p.m. ET, filmmakers unspool a statistic that ...
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