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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE DISASTER OF 2005

By | February 2005

I wish I had never turned on the “Today” show that Monday morning, or even stepped outside my door. I wish I didn’t have to write a column on this, but some things are just so glaringly stupid that to not comment on them would be remiss. This is obviously one of those things…

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