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Article: 25 films to see this summer: Studios roll out lots of films, not many with much imagination.

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May 6, 2007
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Byline: Christopher Borrelli

May 6--Originality. Is it overrated?

The philosopher Eric Hoffer said "when people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." Hey, was he on the payroll at 20th Century Fox? When Oliver Wendell Holmes said "why can't somebody give us a list of the things that everybody thinks and nobody says," was he a production executive at DreamWorks -- did Oliver Wendell Holmes green light Shrek 3?

Sorry, Shrek the Third.

How original.

Yep. It's that time, the summer movie season -- except this season is like three summer seasons at once, very possibly the biggest summer in Hollywood ...

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