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Buffett's second career: Acting

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Warren BuffettBillionaire dealmaker Warren Buffett is moonlighting as an actor. The 77-year-old won't be stretching his on-camera talents too much, playing a character with Midwestern charm and deep pockets that people around the world are likely familiar with, himself. The appearance will be the second one for him on ABC daytime soap opera "All My Children," according to the New York Post.

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The episode, which is scheduled to air in May, has Buffett visiting the soap opera's main temptress Erica Kane, played by Susan Lucci, who is in jail for insider trading. What's next for Buffett? Who knows: Maybe the billionaire will be so interested in acting he may go off and buy a television production studio. - Gerald Magpily

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