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Author Topic: “Mission: Impossible III” - The BOMB Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-02-2006 07:54 PM                  Ya gotta LUV this story from MSNBC This paper rack will self-destruct in 10 seconds Bomb squad destroys news box playing ‘Mission: Impossible III’ theme The Associated Press Updated: 8:50 p.m. ET April 29, 2006 SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise’s upcoming “Mission: Impossible III” got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb. The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the “Mission: Impossible” theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers. Sheriff’s officials said they rendered the news rack in this suburb 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles “safe” after being called to the scene Friday by a concerned individual who thought he’d seen a bomb. Times officials said the devices were placed in 4,500 randomly selected news boxes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in a venture with Paramount Pictures designed to turn the “everyday news rack experience” into an “extraordinary mission.” It was just that, at least for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arson squad, which destroyed the box. “This was the least intended outcome. We weren’t expecting anything like this,” said John O’Loughlin, the Times’ senior vice president for planning. The devices are to remain in the boxes until May 7, two days after the film is scheduled to open.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-03-2006 08:32 AM                     That's the way to get headlines! Paramount Pictures Publicity always thinking!! I think Police Squad should be called in to see which suit green lighted this stunt.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-03-2006 09:00 AM                        That's funny as hell!  |  IP: Logged

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