What’s the Deal With Jon Favreau and Ultimate Fighting?
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So we were reading the Times' review of Four Christmases — because our mom wants to see it before we eat Chinese food on December 25 — and we were struck by one random sentence (no, not the one that says the movie's actually kind of entertaining): "Brad’s feral brothers, a pair of semi-professional extreme cage fighters, are Tim McGraw and Jon Favreau." Cagefighting? Really, Favreau? Didn't you learn your lesson when you got your Ultimate Fighting ass kicked on Friends? [NYT]

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