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I was at the Mizzou journalism school at the same time as Brad Pitt; I just wish I remembered him.

You probably don’t remember me, but we went to college together, at the University of Missouri’s journalism school. You famously lost your mind and

of graduation to pursue some crazy dream of becoming an actor, while I sensibly got my diploma and pursued a glamorous and highly lucrative career in print journalism.It’s OK if you don’t remember me; I don’t remember you either. I won’t lie — when “Thelma and Louise” came out in 1991, and, my college friends and I all suddenly believed we most certainly remembered you.

Now, of course, we do. Now, we know advertising is very serious, and we weep for those big, beautiful full page ads, those columns of classifieds that kept us in business. Like Ebenezer Scrooge contemplating Bob Cratchit, we wish we had been a bit more appreciative. Especially at Oscar time, when for a brief and shining moment, a tiny portion of those big ads return. So thanks for that, for being in movies with campaigns that include what is now known as legacy media.

Still, maybe we did know each other, even if neither of us remembers it. Maybe we chatted briefly over a keg of Busch at some party or at happy hour at the Heidelberg or over Long Island iced teas at Harpo’s. There were certainly a lot of those moments; in ranking the top 10 party schools, Playboy once marked Mizzou with an asterisk and wrote, “We don’t rank professionals.

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