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As has been documented on AdFreak before, we don’t get out a lot. But sometimes, we like to think, that gives us the gift of perspective. Exhibit A: In a rare appearance at the movie theater this weekend to go see Million Dollar Baby (OK, the last adult movie we saw in the theater was American Beauty), we saw five—count ’em, five—commercials before we even got to the previews. There was a lame attempt to make the spots seem special, since one of them broke on the Super Bowl (that

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