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This is a new one. We're writing about an article that's about an article that hasn't been published yet. It's like something straight out of Minority Report: future journalism crimes.

Editor & Publisher hips us to the fact that The San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Bronstein (aka, the former Mr. Sharon Stone, aka "El Macho," aka dragon food) is preparing to publish an interview with Robin Williams about his experience doing the Angie Dickinson entertaining-the-troops thing over in Afghanistan last month.

According to E&P's Joe Strupp:

This past week, Robin Williams agreed to a sit-down with the Chronicle editor to discuss his week-long visit in the war zone last month to entertain the troops. Bronstein plans to run the interview, which he tape-recorded at Williams San Francisco home Friday, as a Q-and-A later this week.

Most of it was a serious and sobering conversation, Bronstein told E&P. I think it was a really moving experience for him over there to meet the troops."

"Tape recorded"! Why couldn't Bronstein videotape it so that this serious, sobering conversation could be televised and we can see Williams mugging, doing dated riffs on cocaine, busting out his hilarious lisping homosexual voice, and his John Wayne impersonation? Seriously, and soberly, of course.

Oh, well: TV's loss is The Chronicle's gain, we guess.

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