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Will someone please, please go ahead and finally buy MGM and put us all out of our misery? It wasn't even a week ago that the trades reported that Time Warner was really, really, so totally close to locking up the sale. We were quite ready to stop fretting about MGM's fate, confident that TW could begin obsessively scribbling TWMGM, MGMTW. and Metro-Time-Goldwyn-Warner-Mayer on the back cover of its back-to-school marble notebook. But now Variety reports that early MGM paramour Sony is throwing pebbles at The Lion's window and begging for another chance, and our people on the inside passing us mash notes have no idea what's going on. Everyone's a little vulnerable right now, and MGM better quit fucking around before someone gets hurt.