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April 7, 2006

Let's Get The Names Of Our Crappy Movies Straight

I found this incorrect headline on Google News:

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I figured that maybe the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would fix the problem on their own site, but no such luck.

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The Antonio Banderas suckfest Take the Lead is loosely based on Mad Hot Ballroom, which isn't even mentioned in the review, but is certainly what made whoever slotted the story think it was okay to use a partial headline reference to a movie not being reviewed. It's dumb on so many levels. To the P-I: Copy editors are pretty inexpensive. Hire one.


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