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April 30, 2006
When Promotions Attack!
In one of the best examples I have ever heard of a promotion going wrong, police in Santa Clarita, California, detonated a newspaper box yesterday because of Tom Cruise's new movie.
No, it wasn't because they finally heard too much about Cruise, his zombie bride, and the poor child born not only into Cruise's cult family, but with the unfortunte paparazzi nickname of "TomKitten," and just snapped. (For the record, I am still firmly in the camp of those who believe that ol' Tommy's touched Katie about as much as I have, and there was about as much reality in that pregnancy as there is in your average Xbox game. If that brainwashing idiot Cruise really knocked up Katie Holmes, then I'm responsible for Britney's rumored #2.) And it wasn't because of Scientology (though it might be fun if it were). No, it was because of a publicity stunt gone awry:
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.
Yeah, in an environment when people are jumpy over anything that looks suspicious, let's take plastic boxes with wires sticking out of them, and put them in newspaper boxes! That's great!
The only redeeming virtue in this story is that it was a Tom Cruise movie getting the negative publicity.
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I know the pregnancy was real, but highly doubt the paternity is. So if it ain't Tom's baby, whose is it? That's what I wanna know.
Oh and I absolutely refuse to see that stupid movie.
Posted by: Liz at May 8, 2006 02:54 PM
