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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING

By | October 2005

God, I hate Joss Whedon. I think he’s an overrated hack of a writer, and I’m positive I could take him in a fight. I can hear the thousands of “Buffy” fans gasping and hitting the message boards with poorly worded death threats as I write this…

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