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Instead, he phoned Metabolife, which referred Chatterbox to its public relations firm, Sitrick and Co., where a senior associate named Julie Fahn assured Chatterbox that all the legal mumbo-jumbo "basically is just to make sure that nobody goes off and duplicates the exact videotape we have because Metabolife owns the copyright.
American colonists, particularly hostile to lawyers and their mumbo-jumbo, tried at first simply to eliminate the profession.
It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)
The same mumbo-jumbo most editors say when there's a design change.
Mansfield declined, however, to tell Chatterbox what the rationale was behind all the legal mumbo-jumbo on Metabolife's Web site, or why Metabolife was (according to its PR firm) unwilling to let ABC News' broadcast rivals help themselves to the unedited videotape of the 20/20 interview, or how Metabolife could own the copyright on an interview conducted by someone else (incorporating, Chatterbox might have added, audio fed to Metabolife from ABC's technicians).
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