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re: The Greatest Showman is in the Top 5 at the box office again (spoiler alert, maybe)
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WaymanWong
01:42 pm EST 02/11/18
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WaymanWong
01:39 pm EST 02/11/18
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re: The Greatest Showman is in the Top 5 at the box office again (spoiler alert, maybe)
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waterfall
09:36 pm EST 02/10/18
''What's not to like?'' Pretty much all that stuff you cast aside: the whitewashing of Barnum's character and history, etc.
Which is why critics largely panned it (55% at Rotten Tomatoes). But audiences don't care if it's fake or fictionalized.
And that's something Barnum knew: how to sell a show. Or as he was often misattributed as saying, ''There's ...
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