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On a commentary track, a director discussing his lifelong desire to meet this actor remarked how “I can stare at that fuckin’ face all day long.” The opening shot of another film shows this actor’s character slumped over by the back door of a diner, before following a stranger played by Philip Baker Hall, who offers this actor’s character a cup of coffee. In a third film, this actor’s character listens to a young boy rap about a murder case before he interrupts the boy to tell him to stop swearing; that (*) police officer played by this actor admits to losing his gun while he’s on a date with (10[1])Claudia. A character played by this actor finally starts an act as a magician at the end of a film where he and a friend played by Mark Wahlberg attempt a music career and rob a drug dealer. For 10 points, name this actor whose early roles for Paul Thomas Anderson included John Finnegan in Hard Eight, police officer Jim Kurring in Magnolia, and Reed Rothchild, Dirk Diggler’s sidekick in Boogie Nights. ■END■

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