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TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.

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