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Kate, Murray's wife of 35 years, and mother of their two children, Jamili, 26, and Mick, 24, pokes her head over the banister and asks, "Do you know where it is?"

"In the closet next to the towels, I believe," he responds, adding, "for years, we left it at my mother's house. Casual and elegant in a black silk robe, Abraham beams as Oscar- a surprisingly massive icon - is passed around, hefted, coveted. Then the actor who has played everything from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (for which he won an Obie stage-acting award) to the Head Leaf in a Fruit of the Loom television commercial, frowns suddenly and asks, "Are you sure you don't want any coffee?" But who needs caffeine after an Oscar jolt ?

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