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Let's agree, it's advisable to not get your news from your art. Your art from your news, though? A longer story. At its height, art is a transposition of our existence in metaphor, in relief; never in reality. Jeffrey Toobin (CNN, The New Yorker) has uniquely messengered the Real for both digesters of journalism and of popcorn. Jeff knows a good yarn is a good yarn, even when the world deserves a \u201cstory by\u201d credit. Hell, even Shakespeare knew as much. One can\u2019t spell History without \u201cstory\u201d nor facsimile without\u2026well, you get the picture. So Storytellers look around \u2014 you can\u2019t always \u201cmake this stuff up\u201d; but, typically, you won\u2019t need to.