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Peter Guber knows the movie business like no one else. In the 1980s he produced smash hits like Flashdance and Batman. In the early 1990s he ran Sony's Columbia Pictures, overseeing A Few Good Men and Philadelphia. Still a producer, Guber also now hosts the Hollywood talk show Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC along with Variety editor Peter Bart. So what does Guber think of the Brokeback Mountain phenom? Is it repeatable? If so, what's next?

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