Life imitates comics: Bernie Madoff as the Joker

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The Joker surged in popular culture with the release of ‘The Dark Knight’ and Heath Ledger’s posthumous Oscar certainly didn’t dampen the trend. Here’s a recent photo by Timothy A. Clary of Getty/AFP capturing the real-life bad guy smirking from a newsstand in New York...or should I just call it Gotham?

-- Geoff Boucher

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‘Dark Knight’ photo courtesy of Warner Bros.