Black's Back -- Mercer's Got Him
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"All I can say is that it will be [Conrad Black] in a way that you've never seen him before," [Rick Mercer] said Thursday. "It's a substantial piece and I love it."
"After negotiating this, I could probably handle Middle East peace," Mercer said with a laugh. "I'm nothing if not tenacious. I just basically wouldn't take no for an answer, and that seemed to work. It certainly wasn't something that happened overnight; it's something I started working on during the trial, actually, and luckily it worked out.""My show can certainly humanize people when that's not necessarily the public perception of them," Mercer acknowledges. "There may be a special place in hell for me because of that particular talent, but I'm happy to use it."See the full content of this document
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Black's Back -- Mercer's Got Him
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