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[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/1/2008 01:56 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>Bad online headline of the day:
>
>     From the LA Times' website
>(http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-studiofirelist2,0,4249633.story):
>Other major fires to strike Hollywood studios
>
>     When you click to it in panic, you discover it's a historical
>snippet, not a prediction.

And I thought it was a report of the other army brass hat having gone
amok, and shot at those pinko Hollywood figures.

Joel

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