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Jan 07 2008 12:00am EDT

A Casualty in the Blurb-Whore Wars

On Friday, we brought you the first installment of PETER VS. PETE, a comparison of blurb-crazed film critics Peter Travers (of Rolling Stone) and Pete Hammond (of Maxim).

It was also the last installment, because today comes news that Hammond has been let go from Maxim.

Coincidence? Definitely: Hammond was fired over the holidays ...


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