Perhaps the Earl of Mauck was just calling somewhere to get the winning lottery numbers, which haven't been in his newspaper for eight consecutive days now.

What's the Big Deal?
Hell, the Washington Post ran tons of stories detailing all the self-serving juice when Hollywood shot All the President's Men in the Post newsroom.
NOT.
What's more, Ben Bradlee was featured in way more photos than the ever modest Earl of Mauck.
ALSO NOT.
Either way, years ago it was the Post and a crooked President -- and now it's the Sun-Sentinel and a dog.
So quit slamming the Sun-Sentinel for basking in its one brief shining moment of semi-significance.
Because glory is until it sic transits.

If you look closely -- very closely -- at the group of extras who are participating in the filming, I'm told you'll see the real "Ellen Dalton" among the extras.

Do you know if they're going to change the name of the paper for the fil...excuse me, movie, or if the Sun-Sentinel will, indeed, have a "starring" role?

And on a more appropriate note...as a former SSer, nighttime, post-deadline would have been a fine time to work on this without disrupting the lives of employees. Although a lot of what the Sentinel does is a joke, these people still have to work. Would you imagine a film crew invading a Wall Street trading operation during working hours? Of course...management there probably wouldn't have let it happen.

re: Earl's Bitch comment

actually EB they DID NOT shoot "All the President's Men" newsroom scenes in the WP newsroom.

from the WP website

"The scenes in The Washington Post newsroom were shot on a sound stage (you couldn't expect a news operation to shut down so a few movie scenes could be shot, could you?). The set builders actually took newspapers, trash and other objects from The Post to make the set more realistic. Those blue and orange filing cabinets in the film are no longer in the newsroom. In her book "Personal History," Katharine Graham, who was president and publisher of The Post at this time, wrote: "In the end, we didn't allow filming in the newsroom. ... Instead, an exact duplicate of The Post's newsroom, including the stickers on Ben's secretary's desk, was created in Hollywood (for a mere $450,000 it was reported), and in the interests of authenticity, several tons of assorted papers and trash from the desks throughout our newsroom were shipped to California for props. We did cooperate to the extent of allowing the filmmakers to shoot the entrance to the newspaper building, elevators and certain production facilities, as well as a scene in the parking lot."

That's the way a real newspaper handles Hollywood.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/allthepresidentsmen.htm

re: Earl's Bitch comment

actually EB they DID NOT shoot "All the President's Men" newsroom scenes in the WP newsroom.

from the WP website

"The scenes in The Washington Post newsroom were shot on a sound stage (you couldn't expect a news operation to shut down so a few movie scenes could be shot, could you?). The set builders actually took newspapers, trash and other objects from The Post to make the set more realistic. Those blue and orange filing cabinets in the film are no longer in the newsroom. In her book "Personal History," Katharine Graham, who was president and publisher of The Post at this time, wrote: "In the end, we didn't allow filming in the newsroom. ... Instead, an exact duplicate of The Post's newsroom, including the stickers on Ben's secretary's desk, was created in Hollywood (for a mere $450,000 it was reported), and in the interests of authenticity, several tons of assorted papers and trash from the desks throughout our newsroom were shipped to California for props. We did cooperate to the extent of allowing the filmmakers to shoot the entrance to the newspaper building, elevators and certain production facilities, as well as a scene in the parking lot."

That's the way a real newspaper handles Hollywood.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/allthepresidentsmen.htm

Mr. Cooke, what newsroom do you work in again? Oh yeah, you don't work in one. Funny.

Why don't you stick to your "Editorial Celebrities/Personalities" photos of Paris Hilton, k?

Well, really this is all quite pedestrian when you consider that The Daily Planet let the film crew shoot all their scenes in the newsroom for Superman I, II and IV. And that rag still managed to get the paper out every morning!

Well, no wonder. Superman was running the presses at warp speed. Maybe if the Earl of Mauck had him, we could get the lottery numbers in the morning. Nine days and counting ...