Reporter Gets to the Bottom of Universal Studios Fake Phone Number
It started innocently enough. Tribune reporter Mark Caro was struck while watching the recent Matt Damon movie The Adjustment Bureau when a phone number without that annonying “555” phony movie prefix was uttered on screen.
Caro later dialed up 212-664-7665 and sure enough, it rang, but there was no answer. In his article, after sharing the colorful history of real-fake Hollywood phone numbers and the near litigious chaos that ensued when God’s digits were listed in Universal’s 2003 comedy Bruce Almighty as 776-2323, he offers this fascinating tidbit:
It turns out Universal, perhaps having learned from the Bruce Almighty fiasco, bought its very own number with a New York area code.
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