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Paramount's late December acquisition of DreamWorks is truly the gift that keeps on giving, as 44 more newly redundant employees will be officially pinkslipped this Friday. We pause to remember the fallen by sharing today's oddly poignant (well, maybe just to us) e-mail blast announcing the imminent folding of the DW publicity department:

From: "DreamWorks Pictures" Date: June 29, 2006 11:50:58 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Offices Closing

As of Friday, June 30th, the DreamWorks Pictures New York and Los Angeles publicity offices will be closing. Please direct any press inquiries about future DreamWorks Pictures releases to Paramount Pictures Publicity at (212) xxx-xxxx.

It's understandable to be sad (or paranoid if you work for Paramount and think you might be next) on their behalf, but at least there's this: We hear that the dismissed staffers will each get a cupcake when they turn in their IDs on the way off the lot. OK, we made that up, but we just wanted to end this on somewhat less depressing note. We can't bear the thought of studio publicists wandering around Hollywood, chatting up anyone who will listen about how great Dreamgirls is going to be.