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Pau Gasol ready for his dead close-up

By Sam Alipour
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Pau Gasol is dead. Like, Nenad Krstic's hair follicles dead. The 8-by-10 glossy in my hands says so. In the photo, which appears to have been shot at a morgue, the Lakers forward is lying on a gurney with his eyes shut, his skin a cold blue. I'd be extremely upset about this news -- after dutifully filing a "breaking news!" report about Gasol's death to my editors, that is -- if it weren't Gasol himself who handed me the photo and we weren't on the set of "CSI: Miam ...

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