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D'oh! of the Week
July 16, 2007
FANS ENTERING Wimbledon received posters for the forthcoming Simpsons movie, then promptly had them confiscated. It had nothing to do with Homer's not fitting with the posh scene in SW19; officials, who are fiercely protective of paying sponsors, deemed it "ambush marketing."
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July 16, 2007

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FANS ENTERING Wimbledon received posters for the forthcoming Simpsons movie, then promptly had them confiscated. It had nothing to do with Homer's not fitting with the posh scene in SW19; officials, who are fiercely protective of paying sponsors, deemed it "ambush marketing."

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