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If Kill Bill Vol. 1 was Quentin Tarantino's ode to kung-fu and samurai films, NPR's Bob Mondello says Kill Bill Vol. 2 qualifies as his paean to spaghetti Westerns.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.