Brow Beat has learned that the prop comes from a small newspaper prop company called the Earl Hays Press in Sun Valley, Calif. Started in 1915, Earl Hays is one of the oldest newspaper prop companies, and the paper in question was first printed in the 1960s (note the top-hat ad on the lower left), then offered as a “period paper,” better suited for Mad Men (where it has not appeared) than Scrubs (where it has). The screenshots don’t actually reveal the same prop — just various printings of the same file. The front is blank and can be customized, but the inside and back page are always identical. In fact, in No Country for Old Men , when Tommy Lee Jones is reading a paper at a diner, the section in his hands is the same as the one sitting on the table, suggesting that the prop master bought two copies to make the paper look fuller, but made the mistake of leaving the stock spread facing up.
Production companies use prop newspapers instead of real ones because getting clearance from an actual publication is usually more work than it’s worth in potential fees and bureaucracy. (There are exceptions. When Tony Soprano picked up his paper each morning, it was always the Newark Star Ledger .) Rather than battle the legal department at the New York Times for that perfunctory breakfast shot, prop masters buy a stack of Earl Hays fake papers, which cost just $15 each. Sometimes if they have some left over they’ll recycle them for another job.
In case you’re curious about the headlines, here are a couple. Above the photo of the young woman with long, thick, dark hair: “She’s 3rd Brightest But Hard ‘Gal’ To See.” On the opposite page above what turns out to be a warehouse burning: “Compromised Housing Bill Sent to President for OK.”
I can understand why they use the same prop, but what I don’t understand is why they always stop reading the paper on that page, or why they always take long enough pause on that page for people to notice.
Yesterday, at 15:26 a bomb went off i Oslo, the capitol of my country Norway. This came as a shock to us, we’ve never had any dealings with terror, and we expected the worst.
Two hours later, as people were being rushed to hospital from glass falling on them and other injuries, reports came in of a shooting at a youth summer camp at Utøya, an hour away from Oslo.
Using the bomb in Oslo as a distraction, a man named Anders Behring Breivik dressed up as a police officer, had at least three kinds of guns on him, and started shooting kids down. He pretended to be there to talk to the kids about the explotion in Oslo, he pretended to help them, and then he started killing them.
As time went on, parents got texts from their kids on the island, the kids were writing things like “There is a policeman shooting us!” and “dont’ call me, we’re hiding. Use only text messages.”
The whole country started to panick. What’s happening? Is this a terrorist attack from some other country? Why are kids being attacked at a summer camp? It was horrible.
Today my whole country is devastated, as the numbers of dead from the bombing and the shooting is rising. At least 84 young people, from the age of 14 til 20, are dead. And 7 from the bombing.
Two-legged lamb saved from the chop
Tender-hearted sheep farmer Cui Jinxiu has saved this extraordinary lamb from the chop after he was born with just two legs.
Sheepish Cui, 38, says she would normally have killed the youngster at birth, but was so impressed by his struggle to survive she began to hand-rear him.
‘He was so determined to live he pulled himself up onto his own two feet and started drinking his mother’s milk. I couldn’t let him die,’ said Cui at her farm in Shangdong province, eastern China.
“Tiny African nation outraged as government bans farting.
Government officials in Malawi have caused a stink after controversially tabling a law to ban farting.
In order to promote “public decency” the tiny African nation is straining to outlaw the passing of wind in public.”
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Police inspector in charge of 999 calls for anti-social behaviour is arrested… for anti-social behaviour.
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7 years old British Boy almost buys fighter jet worth $113,515
A 7 years old British boy went shopping on eBay and almost bought a real life Harrier fighter jet for $113,515 from Britain-based Jet Art Aviation. However the deal was cancelled after his father rang and apologised to the seller.
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It’s nuts but I love you: One squirrel’s bizarre obsession with a garden statue of a dog
A squirrel’s fascination with a statue of a dog has brought hours of light entertainment to a Russian suburb.
The frisky rodent looked confused as to why the dog wasn’t moving and cannot seem to get its head around the fact that it is an ornament and not real.
The picture was taken by a photographer in the garden of his house just outside of Moscow.
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Thieves in Malaysia steal $1.5 million worth of condoms
TOKYO — A Japanese rubber company says that nearly 85,000 boxes of its condoms have been stolen in Malaysia.
Sagami Rubber Industries Co., one of Japan’s biggest condom makers, said Thursday that the boxes were en route from the factory to a port, where they were supposed to be shipped to Japan.
The company described the Jan. 26 theft as “unfortunate” and said it was the first time such a thing had happened.
The boxes contained some 725,000 individual condoms, collectively worth 121 million yen ($1.48 million).
“A married dad of two is suing a drug firm, claming their Parkinson’s disease pills turned me into a cross-dressing, gay, sex addict.
He also claims the drug made him a compulsive gambler who stole from family to fund his habit.”
Sounds like a resonable man..
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“Man sued for calling out wrong name during sex:
A New Zealand man faces a legal suit for allegedly crying out another woman’s name while making love with his ex-partner.”
Apparently the man’s wife had first called the police telling them he had raped her, but changed the story in court, saying “I was just so mad at him. I’m the jelaous type”
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“An Ohio woman who was accused of attacking a police officer with a dildo says she was just trying to protect herself.
Carolee Bildsten, a 57-year-old women who had been accused of skipping out on check at a local restaurant, said a cop drove her home to get money that fateful day.
She went into her bedroom to get the cash… but was startled when the officer suddenly appeared in the room.
“I don’t know, it was just this male police officer and me in the apartment, and he startled me.”
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“Elderly man says he’s “too old” for kiddie porn
Police in Pennsylvania say 81-year-old elementary school volunteer Daniel Toy had a collection of child porn on his computer.
But police say he told them it wasn’t anything sexual.
“I can’t get excited anymore … I’m too old,” he said, according to an affidavit quoted by Philly.com.
He also said he was simply curious.
“I wanted to see what other people are doing,” he said according to another portion of the affidavit, quoted by The Delaware County Daily Times. “I looked at it, if I liked it, I kept it, if not, I deleted it.”
Are you ready for this? TMZ reports that “Entertainment One” is producing a reality show centered around Antoine Dodson and his move from Alabama to West Hollywood.
Although the show doesn’t have a name or network yet, odds are pretty good that the internet’s favorite living meme will find a new home very soon. So hide yo remote, ’cause the bed intruder guy is coming to a living room near you!
Copy and paste from celebs.icanhascheezburger.com, I’m just that lazy at 01:26 am
Cat is summoned for jury duty in Boston; court rejects owners’ appeal to disqualify him:
Massachusetts couple Anna and Guy Esposito received a jury duty summons for their feline friend this month, who they had listed as a household resident on the 2010 Census.
Anna filed to have her pet disqualified from the service requirement on the grounds he is “unable to speak and understand English.” She even included a letter from her vet explaining that Sal is not a human being but a “domestic short-haired neutered feline,” WHDH reported.
The court rejected the request, and as things stand, Sal will have to report for duty to Suffolk Superior Crown Court in Boston on March 23.
Okay, attempted rape is a very serious thing, and I would never joke about it. But when Antione Dodson gets intervjued about it, it loses alot of the seriousness.
“Police in Germany arrested an owl that got drunk on schnapps, according to German media.
Cops said on Tuesday they had discovered a paralytic owl that appeared to have drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles.”
Good thing they are keeping these drunk birds off the streets, they are a bad influence on our children!
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“Woman who killed peacock with baseball bat “just lost it”
The 70-year-old woman testified at her trial that before the incident she had not had a good night’s sleep for months because of constant squawking from peacocks outside her condominium”
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“Drunk woman drives into snowbank, leaves car, takes off pants”
Alrighty.
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“Stabbings blamed on man’s flatulence “throughout the evening”
The suspect had been passing gas at a party and “everyone was upset” about it. A dispute — and the stabbing of two people — followed. “I did it,” the farter/stabber allegedly said. “I need help. They deserved it.”
O.o
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“Police said they will search Thursday for what is left of the cremated remains of a man and two dogs that robbers stole from a Florida house and then snorted after mistakenly thinking it was cocaine.”
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“Hickey partially paralyzes New Zealand woman
Suction from ‘love bite’ caused blood clot and minor stroke, doctors say”
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“In South Korea: Blood Runs From Taps
To date, four million animals have been buried alive in South Korea because humans are too lazy and too cheap to properly vaccinate them. Four million. South Korea is faced with explosions of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs and cows and avian flu in chickens, and the government’s solution is to bury the diseased animals alive.
Even sicker, many rural South Koreans are turning on their taps to find that the water runs red with blood. The animals’ blood is seeping out of their graves and contaminating the drinking water”
A 13-year-old Norwegian boy avoided being attacked by wolves by playing a heavy metal song on his mobile phone, the Zvuki.ru music web portal reported on Thursday.
The incident took place in the central Norwegian municipality of Rakkestad. Four wolves, who appeared before the boy when he was returning home from school, were scared away by the noise coming from the boy’s mobile phone, the Russian website said.
The song that saved the boy’s life was by thrash metal band Megadeth.
The boy said he had been told that in order to avoid being attacked by wolves one should not run away from them but attack them.
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