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Times. For years, TV networks, Hollywood, and the radio industry have been quietly taking payments to place or mention soft drinks, cars, and other brand-name products in their shows and in movies. Now, the sneaky practice of product placement has infiltrated Broadway. In the current New York revival of the Neil Simon musical Sweet Charity, a line that once read
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