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To: jdm
Ripped from the Headlines:All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I never understood how they could get away the contradiction above in films and in television.
3 posted on 09/26/2006 8:47:08 PM PDT by verum ago (To the Islamofascists: As long as your beliefs have you live in denial, so shall you die of it.)
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To: verum ago

Sometimes, at least on SVU, instead of the "...purely coincidental" blurb, they'll say something to the effect of "Although based partly on true events, blah blah blah this story is fictional."


5 posted on 09/26/2006 8:58:04 PM PDT by Ursine_East_Facing_North
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