Acura spokesman Gary Robinson told CNN that the company did not know about the casting description until the TMZ story was published.

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California is also baseball's most fertile breeding ground, producing 22% of all U.S.-born major leaguers last season, with enough stars from its southern third to fill an all-time roster, from Jackie Robinson (Pasadena) to Gary Carter (Culver City).

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Robinson in "Little Caesar"...or maybe best of all, Gary Cooper, "The Virginian" -- or Johnny Mack Brown, the Alabama running back (hero of the Rose Bowl in 1926), who now bestrode the screen as Billy the Kid.

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