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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Tom Cruise Declared Threat To Homeland Security

Movie Promotion Confused With Bomb in L.A.


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.
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."

Please insert your own wry snort of derision here, however we may need to go to "Elmo Alert" if this keeps up. I'm just sayin'.

1 Comments:

Blogger FancyPants said...

My motto: "ANYBODY but Tom Cruise".
He's just so....creepy.

9:12 AM  

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