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The NYT takes a crack at solving the "mystery" behind director Ted Griffin's quickie firing from The Untitled Ted Griffin Project, or The Untitled 'The Graduate' Project, or Otherwise Engaged, or whatever it's being called these days. And, amazingly, it seems no one was to blame! Griffin's agent (Steve Rabineau, agents love to see their names in print) claims Costner wasn't yet filming and so couldn't have ignited a mutiny; Jennifer Aniston's manager (Mark Gurvitz, ditto for managers) said she "had never looked at dailies and had never called the studio," therefore could not have been in the conservatory with a candlestick when Griffin got bludgeoned. We're so glad they cleared all of this up for us. It should have been obvious that Griffin decided after one week that he wasn't any good at the directing thing and engineered his own firing.

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