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We mentioned yesterday that Mayor Bloomberg stopped by the set of the Nanny Diaries to announce an expansion to the city's tax credit program for local film and TV productions and, as he said, "to stand next to a real beauty, Scarlett Johansson." But alas, Her Curvitude was not present, prompting staffers to insist that she was on her way.

But according to Johansson's people, she was never actually scheduled to attend the press conference. The mayor's spokesman Stu Loeser countered that Bloomberg had just been joking — such a sly cover. Gotta save face when Hizzoner's been stood up by a schedule-wielding publicist.

Mike Blushes Over Scarlett [NYDN]
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