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By Jake Coyle / The Bulletin
October 3, 2009
NEW YORK —
In hard times, entertainment either grinds it out with the rest of us or it waltzes.
During the Depression in the '30s, there were stories about the plight of the nation's unemployed, like John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath,” alongside the extravagant musicals of Fred Astaire and....