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Is Coogan’s Dr Strangelove as good as Sellers’s? Of course not

Plus: Netflix needs to come to the rescue of this over-stuffed play about Lincoln's assassination

Steve Coogan as the bland, well-meaning President Muffley, in a scene dominated by Giles Terera’s magnificently aggressive General Turgidson. Photo: Manuel Harlan 
issue 02 November 2024
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