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Published Wednesday, August 24, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

SEEKING DEEPER TRUTHS FROM CELLULOID: Example No. 1 comes from the Los Angeles Times. Wait, you mean The Princes of Malibu weren't really princes? Next thing, they'll reveal that Paris Hilton's life is not so simple.

Example No. 2 comes from the Washington Post, where Stephen Hunter asks the million-word question: What's more perverse, the dirty joke or the joketeller? In doing so, he undermines several generations of comedic insight that held that the hard "c" sound is what makes the word "cock" so darned funny.