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Morley Safer did a nice piece on the connection between L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers, with some reportage on the Downtown street musician's former life as a Juilliard student. Ayers, of course, became the subject of several Lopez columns, his book "The Soloist," and the upcoming movie of the same name. Watch the video.
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