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Catch it if you can: "Catch Me if You Can" as a milestone

Movies are like people. The more you see them, the more you see in them. In 2003 when I saw Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me if You Can," I thought it was a diverting tragicomedy with deft performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Walken. Now (it's in heavy rotation on Cinemax) the '60s-era story increasingly looks like the source from which "Mad Men" flows. That is to say, it's a keen-eyed survey of the fault line separating the World War II generation and its spawn.