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What the Universal fire really means

Posted by Ty Burr June 3, 2008 04:21 PM

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I'm busy writing review copy today (and screening one or two items: a Chinese documentary, the Zohan thing) but to keep you busy, here's a link to a blog posting by my old college film professor David Thomson on seeing the smoke rise in Burbank and fearing for the reels. Hollywood eats its young but it burns its history, and David's not the only person who saw the news footage and thought of Charles Foster Kane.

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