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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 24, June 10, 2001, Article 16 MOVIE MONEY FALLS FROM THE SKY From an Associated Press story datelined Los Angeles, June 6: "Bills with phony face values totaling about $1 billion were blown up during recent filming of the action movie "Rush Hour 2'' in Las Vegas. Some of the bills fluttered into the hands of people who later went to businesses and spent them, authorities said. "The product they were producing was just too close to genuine,'' said Assistant Special Agent Chuck Ortman. "Notes were successfully passed.'' The Secret Service ordered Sun Valley-based Independent Studio Services Inc. to stop making the fake money and sent a recall letter to every movie production company that ordered the prop cash." Can any of our readers point us to a web page illustrating movie prop cash (also known as stage money)? Has anyone ever written a reference book? It could make for an interesting study.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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