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Fyfe
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So today I remembered this scene from a movie in which someone was updating the phone book - reading the obituaries and scratching out the names of the people who had died from the phone book.

Or was it a book? I can't remember! It's making me crazy. Anyone? Before I start clawing at my eyes?

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I remember that in a book... And can't remember the book. Let me go search some.
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(I think it was a book. I suppose it might have been a movie.)
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In the beginning of "The Verdict" Paul Newman's character is I think doing something similar. Not sure though...
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I remember someone doing something similar at the beginning of Amelie, though it's out of his personal contact book...
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Hank
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Call me crazy, but I think Phoebe's grandmother does that in the episode of "Friends" where Phoebe finds out her dad's still alive.
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Hank
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ4Y599PeBs

Here it is. It's about 5 minutes in.

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ketchupqueen
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Friends! That's the one I was thinking of!
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Me too.
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OH. Thank God. Yes. I remember now. Thank you, everyone.
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