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I've always taken that to mean that a screenplay written "by committee" (3 people, in this case) tends to be rather poor quality, and a movie star working off such a script is likely to have a flop of a movie, and thus suffer damage to their reputation, career, and future salary. So, it means "I'll
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It would be helpful if you could list the songs in that video, so we don't all have to watch it to determine which ones were already listed. In my case, I can't even play videos on the old
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