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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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