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    Zombie Town

    We put Hollywood on the couch and discover why it’s so interested in zombies these days. Can you say, projection?

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    By Rob Long • Jun 19, 2013 • 3m Listen

    Hollywood has always been interested in disasters, of course – I remember growing up there was a new disaster picture every year, it seemed like every summer there was a movie where something burning fell on Charlton Heston. And I imagine it'll be the same when kids today are grown up, fifteen or twenty years from now, and they'll look back on this movie era as the time when the president was always Morgan Freeman...

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