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News In Brief
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>Producer Wants To Call Movie Crime And Punishment Anyway
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>LOS ANGELES-Upon learning that the title has already been taken,
>Hollywood producer Andrew Shuler announced Monday that he wants to
>call his upcoming Universal Pictures police thriller Crime And
>Punishment anyway. "There is?" said Shuler, moments after being told
>of the classic Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel that shares its name with
>his upcoming Val Kilmer-Wesley Snipes vehicle. "I don't really see
>that as a problem. What 18- to 34-year-old has ever heard of that?"
>Shuler said he is confident he will be able to "buy out this Russian
>guy."

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>(http://www.theonion.com/onion3818/index.html)


This reminds me of one of the things that talk show host Jay Leno does - goes out on the street and asks very simple questions on things like American History - Who's buried in Grant's Tomb, Which side won the Civil War, etc... I'm embarassed for my species sometimes.