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In another a speechless young man, heavily bandaged, gazes emptily into the camera.

Onstage, though, “The Collaboration” feels emptily formulaic — less like an insider’s view of its famous subjects’ lives than a kind of biographical tourism that gets into serious gawking in its second half.

The world wouldn’t be the mess it’s in if, say, politicians actually read “1984” in high school rather than just emptily invoking its premise.

“Brown just stood there, staring emptily into chaos,” writes Kent Babb in “Across the River: Life, Death, a nd Football in an American City.”

On Friday night, Wisconsin will play it nobly, dutifully and emptily; while the SEC and ACC opted for scattered fractions of spectators, the Big Ten decreed its games fan-less.