A few years ago it seemed like you could not watch any movie without seeing this actress. She was everywhere. She was the it girl. She was the next big thing. She was in big movies and blockbusters and even got nominated for some of the bigger awards and then one day, she was gone. Vanished. She was B+ list at the time and now, if she decided to come back, she would probably still be close to a B because of her name and what she did in her short time. She has talked about coming back but she went through some of the roughest times that I have ever heard. She was in her late teens when she really got noticed and that is when it became hard. There was the movie with the method actor who has been nominated for an Academy Award and is A list all the way. He decided that he was going to do drugs for the movie and insisted she do the same. He said he would get her fired if she didn't, so there she was in an alley in a city she had never been before smoking crack with an actor who said it was all part of the process. When he forced her to have sex with her "to keep things real," she wondered if that was part of the process too. Apparently his process involved him having sex with every female on the production.
There was the producer who kept wanting her to read for a part and would keep insisting that she come at the end of the day to his office. After everyone left for work. She knew what was going to happen. She knew it and knew it and told her agent she didn't want to go and why couldn't she meet the producer somewhere else. The agent told her the producer always did it that way. A soon as she got to his office and he reached for her breast she ran screaming from the office and never went back. Her agent acted like it was a big misunderstanding and he would get her another meeting with the producer. Maybe they could go to dinner or something.
She talked about the time she had agreed to do a love scene, but with no nudity and the director kept her in her trailer for three hours yelling at her that she needed to get naked for the scene to make it real. There was that word again and she was tired of it. He gave her something to take and then had sex with her and she finally agreed to get naked for the movie. There she was in front of 30 other people having sex on camera and the director yelling at her to make it more real. more sexy. He never even used the scene. It ended up on the cutting room floor. She later heard he had hours of footage of actresses from scenes just like hers that ended up in his home but never on screen. He loved the power.
After one too many gropings on set or coke being offered to her. Our actress just left. She walked away. One second she was there and one she was not. She says she has quit forever.
318 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 318 of 318I really think it's Fairuza Balk. I know she had been around a while, but I didn't notice her til Murder in the Heartland. But was she nominated for awards? As far as method actors, she was with Ed Norton in American History X and Christopher Walken in Things to Do in Denver ... and Marlon Brando (the epitome of method actor) in Island of Dr. Moreau.
No way is it Phoebe Cates - her dad was Gil Cates! No one wants to piss him off!
JJL and Bridget Fonda, no way -- too connected.
I think this is Abbie Cornish. Starred in Candy with Heath Ledger. Many nominations and high profile films. Then nothing.
@Shit You Can't Buy - I agree. This BI implies that the actress was really really really majorly BIG!!! I can think of actresses who've left the business (Lisa Eilbacher was one who came to mind at first) but nobody with that level of fame who hasn't continued working and can't otherwise be accounted for. I mean, I don't think Fairuza Balk was never this big. Even Bridget Fonda wasn't that big (though the point about "because of her name" does seem to resonate).
About the only young actress I can think of who achieved fame on the level that this BI implies is Molly Ringwald. And while she's kept a low profile, she's worked somewhat steadily in the business.
I thought of Bridget Fonda right away. I'm not sure that Hollywood family cred gives you a pass on treatment like this, not until you are A list, and even then, you're still a woman, so... there is SO much competition for parts. If you believe the Toothy Tile blind you know Jakey had to blow a producer to get Prince of Persia, and then that Gwyneth did the Casting Couch for Shakespeare in Love - both Hollywood families. I'm sure the examples go on and on.
I was very curious about Bridget's total disappearance a few years back and found out that she was in a horrible car accident that shattered her spine or something, and rehab has been slow. So - I don't know.
If this is Fonda I think the last example is Quentin Tarantino / Jackie Brown.
@Purple Soul - I don't know, IMDB lists a whole slew of things for Abbie Cornish.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180411/
Amanda Bynes. She "retired".
I still think it might be Fairuza Balk...
Would be B now because her name is pretty unique and recognizable. She starred in Gas Food Lodging at 18 and won an Independent Spirit Reward for it. She was also nom’d for a SAG award.
She was in American History X with Edward Norton – Strasberg method actor who played a skinhead. I can’t remember details of American History X but maybe there’s some drug use in it? Edward Norton seems like a nice guy but who knows, maybe in 1991 he was a sleazeball.
I can’t remember if she had a sex scene in Almost Famous, but apparently she played a groupie, so there could have been.
Her IMDB isn’t empty, but from 2000 to 2012, she only did voiceovers for video games, and what look like fairly minor roles or smaller movies. She didn’t work at all in 2007.
This might work if the blind was originally dated before 2012 (she apparently starred in a movie that year.) Maybe she had a change of heart.
I'm thinking more and more this blind is old, not from like 2005-2010.. Think everyone has guessed all the people possible, but still nothing really fits; or they had a very long career before being noticed (blind says short career), or they still work, or they don't have the name recognition for coming back and be immediate B-list again (or they don't have any namerecognition at all)..
I'm thinking more early nineties (earlier wouldn't be possible since crack didn't exist before mid-eighties as someone mentioned). There were so many teenmovies back then, what ever happened to all those actors?
Ed Norton's character doesnt do drugs in American History X...
@CJ: I agree with all the points.. But the blind says the actress had a short career.. Fairuza has been active since the early eighties.. That's what's confusing me since she fits all the other points perfectly (big movies with big names, talented, won/nominated for awards, quit acting). That's why I immediately thought of her when reading the blind:/
I'm thinking more someone like an Elizabeth Olsen (not saying it's her, just use her as an example). Has the recognition (familyname, looks like her superfamous sisters) and is supertalented (was almost nominated for an Oscar for her movie about escaping a cult).
If she would quit acting now, it would be her.
Think it is someone like this: very recognizable, very talented, but yet not in the media all the time like some sort of Angelina Jolie.
Think it's someone who could have won an Oscar a few years ago (or a decade if the blind really is old) but didn't and after that disappeared. People just forgot about her. We are probably overlooking her. Thinks this actress wasn't a leading actress in all her movies, more like a supporting actress, think that's why we can't find the correct name.
*yes I have no life*
To add: If it would be Fairuza, I would say Nicolas Cage for the creepy actor. He played a drug-abusing cop in the 2009 movie, smoking crack and acting insane would be his 'role'.. After that Fairuza stopped acting.
I dont think most people know Fairuza Balk's name, but what abot Neve Campbell?
Samantha morton
Jamie Gertz has recent credits on IMDB. Molly Ringwald is a regular on Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family.
Thora Birch?
I thought Samantha Morton too, but her IMBD is full & steady, through a "2013 Spike Jonze Project".
My first thought was Erika Christensen (Traffic) but she still works....
Jennifer Tilly?
I'm going to assume Helen Hunt would be to old?
@chigirl:
Bale is an oscar winner and he dated samantha mathis during LITTLE WOMEN and she continue to work (according to IMDB)
Nicolas Cage,Sean Penn,Daniel Day Lewis are oscar winners
What about Mia Sara?
the A list actor acting a crack guy might be Samuel L Jackson in Jungle Fever
Ryan Gosling acted a crackhead teacher in Half Nelson
Doesn't BV stand for Blind Vice, which is exclusively Ted's term? It just seems weird to see it being used as a generic term for blind item. We're giving Ted to much power. ;) If anything, these are BI's, not BV's.
FYI, Jennifer Tilly was married to Sam Simon, one of the 3 creators of The Simpsons. She apparently got a HUGE settlement (mad Simpsons $$!!), in that divorce. So she doesn't need to work again.
Ingrid and Clatie, great minds!
OK, I've done some internetting to find other actresses who have disappeared.
Valeria Golino - was in Rain Man, Hot Shots, etc., mostly makes foreign films now. Last US movie was Frida in 2007.
This is a longshot since it's a long time ago, but Deborah Foreman, who was the Valley Girl of the title. Hasn't made a movie since the '90s except for a cameo role in '08, now is an artist and yoga teacher.
Linda Fiorentino, another '80s actress, was in After Hours, The Last Seduction and Dogma. Only one credit since 2002.
ardleighstreet, I looked up Mia Sara. She has a lot of recent credits.
I am really liking the juliett lewis guess
jUliette Lewis always acts (in supporting character)
Jennifer Jason Leigh has had an awesome career for over 30 years, not her.
Seems like everyone misses one of the following in their guesses:
1. The actress was late teens when she really got noticed. She could have started earlier, but no later.
2. The actress was nominated for 'some of the bigger awards'. Some. Multiple. We're talking, then, Golden Globes, SAG, even Emmys or Tonys. Oscars? Maybe. But NOMINATED for more than ONE.
3. She's going to be at least a -little- nudity/sex shy. Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, etc. got naked right away and frequently. (Nobody remembers Phoebe in Paradise, but she's buck naked for at least 50% of the movie.)
4. She -walked away-. Vanished. 'One second she was there and one she was not.' So a defined, 100% 'no more acting' cutoff. Nada.
5. Name recognition. That means general public. Allison Lohman? Love her, but no name recognition. Her return, as a previously nominated actress who hasn't worked in awhile, would be noteworthy at least at the B or near-B level.
We need to combine those things in ONE PERSON. If Enty fudged on any of those points, then this is impossible to guess.
in my opinion,anyone fits in our guess or Enty forgot to make enquiries or it's untrue
Man, this is hard. Everybody I think of has had some sort of acting credit in the past couple years. Even something small takes them out of this though.
3. She's going to be at least a -little- nudity/sex shy. Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, etc. got naked right away and frequently. (Nobody remembers Phoebe in Paradise, but she's buck naked for at least 50% of the movie.)
I may be grasping here but Fonda's nudity (which was plentiful) was earlier in her career. She didn't get naked in Jackie Brown, though there was a sex scene she was in. Many actresses refuse to go nude when they get older and more established.
Another guess I had was Ione Skye, but I see she's been up to stuff.
I just can't think of anyone else who stone cold quit. No one.
I have a feeling this could be Hilary duff. I mean she was everywhere and anywhere for a while and she was definitely a notable A+ tweener who has b+ recognition, and could still come back as B. she filmed war inc in bulgaria with John cusack(method actor), and can definitely see then smoking crack. She seems very impressionable.
She's done several indie movies where she was trying to be more 'adult'. It was reported she was meant to have a sex scene in Greta but due to production or something it got cut out. And her last movie was filmed years ago and only being released which stars charlie sheen before his very public meltdown. And seeing as these were indie flicks anything can go really... Wasn't she meant to do that Bonnie and Clyde film?
235 comments - I hope this one gets revealed someday!
Fairuza Balk hasn't stopped working. She has two things in post production.
Not her.
perhaps enty will pity us and put her in random photos!
Like the guesses for the girls from The Craft, and the Dominique Swain guess... but can't recall awards noms from any. same with Gretchen Mol, SAG nom not big enough.
Don'tRainOnMyPrada - I was thinking the same thing. I noticed that Crila16 always says BV - that belongs to Ted. These are BI's.
Ellen Page
Penelope Ann Miller
Carlitos Way with Sean penn
Frequent lurker. Never post but loved Penelope and girl was on a roll in the 90's and then disappeared.
Her last movie before The Artist was in 1993
I agree with the Allison Lohman guess. There was a 3 or 4 year period where she was in a ton of movies. She was getting a lot of buzz and was able to play both teen and adult roles.
Juliette Lewis was in Old School. Wasn't a big part, but she was in it.
winona ryder??
Lohman did have a child in 2010-11, maybe she's taking a break.
Tracy Camilla Johns. She was in New Jack City, and Spike Lee movies. Did some tv, looks like she was very busy from 86 through 91... th en quit.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/tracy_please_baby_please_where_are_you
Honestly, I had no idea who Fairuza Balk was until I looked her up.
I'm not the arbiter of name recognition but if she started acting again, would most people have a clue who she is?
Could she call a restaurant and say,
"this is Fairuza Balk...can I get a table?" and they'd say, "sure!"? I think say....Briget Fonda could (I don't think it's her either).
I don't think its Hilary Duff. She's still hanging around giving interviews and stuff about her new baby to keep a little bit of attention. You don't do that if you are trying to walk away from the business forever.
Also, I looked through the lists of every female movie acting nominee for the Golden Globes back to the 80's and every name that caught my eye has some type of recent acting credit. I am truly stumped by this one.
Here are a few random guesses: Lisa Bonet, Taryn Manning, Allison Elliott,
I got to thinking about Franka Potente, made famous in Run, Lola, Run (although 20-ish at the time). She then made the Bourne movies and had a part in Blow w/ Johnny Depp. Directed by the now deceased Ted Demme, who died soon after from a decade of drug abuse.
IMDB (who's traffic went up today) says she only stayed in LA for a year and then went back to Germany. But she still has recent acting credits, but there aren't any Hollywood movies listed, even in production or announced.
So did the actor not win the Oscar since it just says nomination? Maybe we can narrow our search that way?
Kelly McGillis immediately came to mind. In the 80s she starred in Top Gun, Witness, and The Accused. She had a Golden Globe nomination for Witness
Then she dropped off the radar completely.
Natasha Lyonne
Party Monster
Shes done work in the last ten years but minimal and she has zero desire to work.
elizabeth berkley....jk lol
Anyone want to check out the list for Academy Award Best Supporting Actress? I checked out Best Actress for the 90's+ & couldn't find anything that matches this blind.
Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress#1990s
Abbie Cornish?
Thosa Birch
Milwaukee.... Does someone famous really live here?
@unknown I also said Thora Birch but Spacey won't want to sleep with her for Oscar nominated actor. He won both times and she isn't he's type.
Are you being facetious or do you not know tht Sean Penn played that character to a T?
Are you being facetious or do you not know tht Sean Penn played that character to a T?
Lurker. Miami Blues, Baldwin and JJL
JJL and Christan Bale
@Miss X: I looked at that list earlier and no one really jumped out at me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh has spent the past two seasons playing Nancy's sister on Weeds. No way is this her.
Something made me think Neve Campbell, she was everywhere and then disappeared. But IMDB reckons she's been around.
Yes, I think something's misleading [purposefully] in the BI.
Bridget Fonda quit too early, was everywhere, and might have been noticed as a late teen. I'm really liking this guess—she might have believed she was protected from the nasty side of HW and gotten bullied anyway. I can really see this... Except, she's got a lot of credits under her belt. And I don't like "what she did in her short time" — BF was around for a long time (1993+). Her career can't be described as a "short time".
(Neither can Phoebe Cates and others who had lots of movies then just petered out with poor films.)
I got nothing from the "Where Ever Happened To" database LOL (they're all either still working, or were only one hit wonders). So I'm also thinking someone more recent (late 90s-mid2000s). But I can't think of any "recent" B+ list actors who aren't still acting.
Stumped!
I think this could be Meg Tilly. She has acknowledged that she "retired" from acting (huge gap from 1995-2010.) According to IMDB she has returned to acting the past couple of years with 2 projects.
She was in the Two Jakes with Jack Nicholson, Masquerade with Rob Lowe, etc. so many possible contenders for scumbag behavior.
I'm not sure it's necessarily an Oscar or Golden globes award;I think Enty would have said one of those 2 outright (i.e., "she was even nominated for an Oscar"). I think a "bigger" award could be something people would watch on TV maybe...so not an Independent Spirit award but maybe a People's Choice, or something like that?
I know I'm not being particularly helpful on the guesses front but I'm trying to solidify the different clues.
I've gone through several lists of actresses between the ages of 20-40, have checked probably 50 actresses on IMDB, some well known, some not, and I've got nothin'. I'm beginning to think that she still worked but maybe only in voice overs or something like that...not out in the public. One of the actresses I checked fit that, but I can't remember which one...I'm going to have to go back through.
I was thinking Annabeth Gish who did a lot of movies, seemed to leave them, and then did some television, and then left MY radar, BUT it appears she still does a bit her and there now and then.
So carry on...
My tosses for the ring:
Jacinda Barrett
Elisha Dushku
Amy Smart
N'Bushe Wright
Brittany Murphy (wah-wah)
I was thinking about the movie Spun as a link to this blind somehow as well.
Ditto Moira Kelly.
Katherine Heigl. Hasn't done anything since 2008's 27 Dresses
Forgive me if this is stupid or ruled out, but my first thought was Ali MacGraw from Love Story.
This is hard!
Here is a decent list of directors... and I still can not make a legit guess about this blind...
http://www.imdb.com/list/oxGTP489jds/
Then I thought Andie MacDowell, who was in TONS of things, and "nothing" for the last 12-15 years, but turns out she'd been in many things I just haven't heard of.
This blind kept me up all night and I am not happy about it.
Not that RDJ wasn't an A list crack addict...but I really want to believe he'd never threaten to have an actress fired for not doing drugs with him.
What a rotten business.
I have a B list cousin who refused to help me when I was studying theater in NY...he said it wasn't a good life...I was really angry with him at the time - now I guess I understand.
Abbie Cornish just starred in that movie by Madonna, "WS" os something.
If this actress was that disgusted or weary enough to walk away from a luctrative career, why hasn't she gone public with this? Let's face it, there is really nothing in this blind would shock anyone, and it's not like she has to keep her mouth shut to keep working in Hollywood.
Kalifornia with the A-ist of A list stars Brad Pitt
Fairuza??? A B+ actress??? No way. She was never in a huge Blockbuster movie? What blockbuster movie was she in? I know she was in a Adam Sandler movie, played little Dorothy in a flop movie...and was in that cheesey the Craft movie...but she was almost an A list?
Who's Samantha Mathis? She was never big enough to be almost an A list.
This is a BIG name actress. Almost an A list. Its a recognizable name...like someone said above, Keira Knightly or Kirsten Dunst.
Does Ellen Page fit at all?
Juliet Lewis still works. She was just in that Jennifer Aniston movie the Switch.
Juliet Lewis still works. She was just in that Jennifer Aniston movie the Switch.
Kelly McGillis immediately came to mind
She quit because she was raped, and it's no secret. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1316999/How-rape-Top-Gun-star-Kelly-McGillis-walk-away-Hollywood.html
I'm still on the Bridget Fonda bandwagon.
This blind doesn't specify that the way this actress was treated is THE REASON the actress quit. Just that she quit and she "went through some of the roughest times that I have ever heard." according to Enty.
The thing is, the types of things she "went through" are par for the course in H'wood. We know this. This shit happens all the time. But this actress didn't expect it, didn't want to play that game, and eventually it may have been a contributing factor to her quitting.
I read this interview with BF last night and I totally think it is her.
http://movieline.com/1993/11/01/funny-face/
I suspect the sex scene movie was Jackie Brown with Tarantino. At that point in Fonda's career, she probably didn't want to do nudity or simulated sex, and she'd been in a LTR with Eric Stoltz, though they broke up soon after this. The one sex scene in Jackie Brown evidently had the nudity cut out of it.
@Suzanne - I thought about her too, but she has some projects in the works now according to IMDB. I thought about Dominique Swain too, but she also has projects in the works. I hadn't heard about her for years so good for her!
Elizabeth Shue?
What about Debra Winger??
Bridget fonda is a great guess,but I'm still not sold.These are the A list actors she worked with according to IMBD:
1- City Hall/Pacino
2-Godfather III/Pacino
3-Rough Magic/ Russell Crowe
4-Simple Plan/Is Billy Bob A list??
5- It Could Happen to You/Nic Cage
6- Jackie Brown/DeNiro
7- Touch/Christopher Walker
I could see d-bag Russell Crowe doing that, but this was in 1995 and I think way before he became big. Can't see DeNiro or Pacino, maybe Nic Cage.
*IMbD sorry
If all those "bigs" in the beginning of the blind is a clue, maybe Alison Lohman fits. She was in "Big Fish". However I wouldn't know her by her name.
Meg Tilly does VO work.
Elisabeth Shue is working, most notably in CSI.
What about Marissa Ribisi? No credits since 2003.
Winona and Daniel day Lewis. She quit forever being clue to that Winona forever tattoo johnny depp had?
Winona and Daniel day Lewis. She quit forever being clue to that Winona forever tattoo johnny depp had?
This is fucking terrible! I hope the actor who forced her to have sex with him and to take drugs gets revealed.
Alison Lohman - first person I thought of.
Erika Christensen
Too lazy to finish reading all 301 (!) comments.
I like the Faruiza Balk guess, she WAS everywhere for a while. American History X has a sex scene between her and Norton, not graphic, but certainly not romantic. And while Norton may not have been the drug user, let's not forget that Edward Furlong was also one of the stars...and a heavy drug user in his personal life. No drugs in the movie, but is the blind specifc that there were drugs in the the film, or that the characters were just people who you would assume did drugs? Could be a loophole.
If not Faruiza, my money is on a girl from the Brat Pack. They were all coming of age; to me, the wording on how she was really noticed in her late teens made me think she looked less like a teen and more like a woman...make sense?
@iheartjacksparrow - IDENTITY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES!
Also, I know the Juliette Lewis guess was notted, but for those who don't think she's done much, you MUST see Whip It. :)
I vote for Natasha Lyonne, and I say that she claimed to have "quit forever" when she was battling her addictions, before her very recent "comeback."
Could the actor be Christian Slater? I wasn't sure if he was method and if you google him and method acting, it turns out he got himself addicted to drugs by going method for a role.
Jenny Wright 1980s actress
Juliette Lewis FTW. Hit it big in her teens.
Nominations for Oscar and Globe plus a few Emmy noms. Pitt for the method actor Kalifornia set? Could be Depp later but leaning toward Pitt, don't think he doesn't hit the hard stuff if he is hanging with St. Angie. QT for the director in Dusk til Dawn. She has said herself that she has "shunned Hollywood" although she continues to work a little bit... it could be Entyspeak for smaller projects and Indies, after all her work is practically non-existent but I bet she could jump back in the game if she wanted.
Word.
How old was the girl from Juno who did Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio, because for some reason that's who came to mind.
@Bubbles: That must be Ellen Page, but she is still active in HW:) She has a movie coming out later this year.
I thought I had it with Jena Malone, but it appears she has a bunch of work lined up. Then I thought of Keisha Castle-Hughes, but same thing for her. I'm stumped!
Just throwing this out for the Bridget Fonda guess - she was in Singles, so the method actor could be Matt Dillon although I don't know if he's A-list, but he is Academy award nominated. The 'city she had never been before' could be Seattle.
Dakota Fanning?
Ellen Paige?
Neither have been in anything for a while, despite having a long run of movies each, both fairly young, definite name recognition...
Re the Bridget Fonda guess: the film could be Singles and the method actor, Matt Dillon. Don't know if he's A-list, but he's Academy Award nominated. The unfamiliar city would be Seattle.
Sorry I double (and now triple) posted. I couldn't see the earlier comment at first for some reason.
I'd like to take a baseball bat to the keyboard of anyone who types "FTW"...
Bridget Fonda was ~38 when she left Hollywood. In 2003 she had a major car accident AND married Oingo Boingo frontman/frequent Tim Burton collaborator Danny Elfman. This blind says the actress was in her late teens when she really got noticed. Bridget Fonda spent her years between 18 & 22 at NYU's Tisch School, and her breakthrough roles all occurred in her mid-to-late 20s. She was TWENTY-EIGHT when she starred in Singles. Keep trying...
Juliette Lewis was 18 when she starred in Cape Fear, but everything else seems a bit off about her and this blind. Even if they haven't necessarily been high-profile projects, a quick perusal of her filmography shows that she has worked pretty steadily over the last decade, in addition to fronting her band.
AMY ADAMS? Holy crap! She was in the Muppets!!! Do people not even bother to check IMDB before throwing guesses out there?
JJL has also worked pretty steadily, and she & Alan Cummings co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in The Anniversary Party (which also featured Phoebe Cates & her husband, Kevin Kline). Phoebe & Kevin have been married for something like 23 years now, & Phoebe hasn't been nominated for any big awards.
Alison Lohman's first big role came when she was 23. She's now 32, is married, and revealed last year that she had a baby but kept the info under wraps initially.
People are just throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks, if they can cause a groupthink groundswell of people saying "oh, that makes perfect sense", event when it doesn't.
That said, something about this blind doesn't add up. I've looked at the Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG & Independent Spirit Awards, and I can't pick out an actress who was nominated in either the lead or supporting categories who was the right age who abruptly disappeared.
Okay, this is so much later, but I just read an article about Helen Hunt being EVERYwhere back in 2000, and she totally was! You couldn't see a big movie without her, and then there she was, gone. Maybe Enty fudged the details a little bit?
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