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For those of you who think that the entertainment industry's legendary "casting couch" is a relic from a bygone, if much sexier, era, today's Page Six reminds you that some things never change:

THERE really is a "casting couch" in the movie business, according to Chris Hanley, whose Muse Productions is about to release David Mamet's shocking "Edmund," and who's best known for "American Psycho," "Buffalo 66" and "The Virgin Suicides." "Almost every leading actress in all of my 24 films has slept with a director or a producer or a leading actor to get the part that launched her career," Hanley said at a panel at the 30th annual reunion of his class at Amherst College. His leading ladies have included Kirsten Dunst, Scarlett Johanssen [sic], Brooke Shields, Christina Ricci and Kathleen Turner. "And sometimes the director even slept with the starring actor to get the directing job, if the actor had more clout."

It's reassuring to know that while new technologies threaten to alter the way that Hollywood does business, the time-honored (and decidedly low-tech) genitals-for-fame exchange still has a important place in the industry's economy. You know, at least until some troublemakers with no sense of history devise some sort of animatronic vagina that significantly alters this seemingly inviolable part of the business model.