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Anecdote of the Week: "Oh God, This Is a Dirty Picture"

Anecdote of the Week: "Oh God, This Is a Dirty Picture"

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May 15, 2009
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The Siren has no particular reason for posting this anecdote, other than the way it consistently cracks her up. It concerns Samuel Goldwyn, whose fate it was to figure prominently in many anecdotes that simply never happened. His occasionally fractured English was irresistible to Hollywood wags, and eventually publicity folks just started making stuff …

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