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It was the greatest and

Posted August 30, 2001 11:36 AM.

It was the greatest and most glorious flop of the dot.com rush, and now it might be a movie. Cameron Diaz and Ed Norton may be in the running for Boo.com, the movie. The most depressing thing about this whole enterprise is that you just know there's some poor techie or usability guy or designer sitting in the back of every scene sobbing his eyes out. Possibly the most idiotic company of all time to be given $100 million, Boo.com could have been run on a hamburger and a piece of string and still not made any money.

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