Great moments in journalism?

This is a quote from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" producer Marti Noxon as it appears in the May 24-30 issue of TV Guide: "A girlfriend and I bought tickets for [a movie] and snuck in to see Frank Langella in 'Dracula' [instead]. It blew my mind. I wanted to get bit."

Sounds exciting, TV Guide, but why replace whatever she said with the generic [a movie]? Especially since the way that sentence reads now makes it sound like "Dracula" isn't a movie. Let's see if I can think of some reasons:

• Marti Noxon called up TV Guide after the fact and told them she's now friends with the producer, director, and/or star of the movie she bought a ticket for but didn't see, and doesn't want this person to feel bad.


• Someone was worried about the statute of limitations on sneaking into movies.


• Marti Noxon and her friend actually bought tickets for a porn movie with a title that's too raunchy for family-friendly TV Guide.


• The movie she said she bought a ticket for had a very long title, which, if TV Guide printed it, would screw up the layout of the page on which this blurb was printed.


• Someone at TV Guide actually did some research for once and discovered that the movie she claimed to have bought a ticket for wasn't out at the same time as "Dracula."

I can't decide which of these is the truth, although I'm pretty sure it's not the last one I listed.