One reason Slayer has sustained its reign for so long is this separation between the private person and public persona.

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As I wrote a few months ago elsewhere, one of the big differences between Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz: The Great and Powerful was that the latter Disney concoction had actual movie stars.

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Slayer, co-founded by Hanneman and Kerry King, became one of the "big four" thrash metal groups of the 1980s, along with Anthrax, Megadeth and Metallica.

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Sky One is the home of American imports such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons, where episodes can usually seen first before airing on terrestrial channels.

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It's reassuring to know that Chicago-based U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who has a voracious appetite for rooting out political corruption and must see his city and the rest of Illinois as one giant buffet, is living up to his reputation as a tough and independent Goliath slayer who doesn't hesitate to take on the powerful.

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