Clooney Stirs the Writer's Strike Stew


	Clooney Stirs the Writer's Strike Stew

papananook

1-8-2008 10:15 PM

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papananook says:

The trouble with the strike, which I support, is that the more the good shows, such as they are, are replaced with stupid "reality" shows the more the watchimg public gets dumbed down, as if they aren't already as numb as a bag of frozen liver.

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