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TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus once parked in Tom Arnold's parking spot on the CBS lot. He left a note on her windshield that read "How stupid are you? Move your f--king car, you asshole!" She later found "a Polaroid of someone's buttocks left on her windshield and the word 'cunt' written in soap."

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