An arsonist tried to burn down a building after being allowed out of prison on a work placement.

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"We do not expect an arsonist to be a firefighter, " he said.

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Perhaps next, an arsonist should take charge of the government's fire-prevention campaign.

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My neighbors, were they ever to introduce themselves, and upon hearing that I was an arsonist and a murderer, would start talking about the virtues of Bermuda grass as opposed to Kentucky blue.

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But the movie's title is "Greenberg, " not "Marr, " and Mr. Stiller commands a kind of awe in his refusal to clothe the naked hostility of a character who suffers from the autoimmune disease of self-loathing. ("Life is wasted on people, " the hero says at one point.) An ardent arsonist, he has burned most of the bridges that once connected him to friends and a flourishing career.

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Lest we mistakenly believe that the fire is the work of an impartial universe, one scene shows a demented arsonist pouring gasoline on the bed of a sleeping woman before setting it on fire.

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