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Cadillac’s uncredited Theodore Roosevelt quote

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  ad, Cadillac, Entertainment Weekly    Posted date:  February 17, 2015  |  1 Comment


Finishing the February 20th issue of Entertainment Weekly, I glanced at the ad on the back cover, and was immediately puzzled. Wasn’t that a quote from Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech delivered at the Sorbonne in 1910?

Cadillac wouldn’t just go ahead and use the quote without attribution, would it?

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Cadillac would. (more…)

Entertainment by the numbers

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  Entertainment Weekly    Posted date:  December 27, 2007  |  No comment


Entertainment Weekly reports that the top market for buyers of DVDs in the U.S. is—Salt Lake City! According to the magazine’s “By the Numbers” sidebar, 73% of adults there purchased DVDs during the past year.

Why should the capital of Utah turn out to be the nation’s DVD leader? Entertainment Weekly doesn’t attempt to explain the statistic.

Any suggestions?

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