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Litigation

Feb. 23, 2000

Coppolas Pinocchi Nose Sniffs Problematic Extraterrestrial Slime

Unlike the laws of physics, the laws of men place no restrictions on time travel. That helps explain why a bubble from Hollywood's recent past surfaced in a California appeal court Friday afternoon. Appropriately, one reason for the appearance of the Tinseltown anachronism was a never-produced television program inspired by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," that pioneering science fiction tale of invading Martians wreaking havoc on earth until they catch bad colds and die.

By Garry Abrams
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        Unlike the laws of physics, the laws of men place no restrictions on time travel. That helps explain why a bubble from Hollywood's recent past surfaced in a California appeal court Friday afternoon. Appropriately, one reason for the appearance of the Tinseltown anachronism was a never-produced television program inspir...

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