Check out pg. 30...

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...of the L.A. Times Calendar section today. The double-page ad for HBO's Angels in America contains eight blurbs running the length of the page. But all are from the New York Times or Newsweek, and the language repeats. Wagging tongues suspect it was a dummy ad that got in the paper by mistake. Expensive mistake if true.


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