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Buzz Encounter I by Margot Dougherty

Who: What: Actress, Extract Where: Dodger Stadium

“I love the Big Blue!” sings Mila Kunis as the Dodgers saunter off the field and the Cincinnati Reds swallow another runless inning. Kunis isn’t just paying lip service. She had arrived at the game wearing a sleeveless Dodger jersey over her black tank T-shirt and jeans—baggy, torn at the knee, rolled to midcalf, and quite possibly borrowed from the closet of her boyfriend, . Presented with a Dodger cap, she promptly pulled it down over hair still wet from a shower and lost no time ordering a hot dog and a root beer, the color of which matches her nail polish. Kunis is no stranger to a ball game. “But this is not where I normally sit,” she says of our front-

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