A devastating fire ripped through Universal Studios on Sunday, damaging a mechanical King Kong exhibit, tens of thousands of historic videos and the iconic clock tower from the Back to the Future movies.

18 years ago, a blaze similar to yesterday's destroyed the same three areas of the studio, a piece of information that led some witty genius at the AP to load up his story on the disaster with lots of discussion of sequels.

It was the second fire at the historic site in nearly two decades, leveling facades, hollowing out buildings and creating the kind of catastrophe filmmakers relish re-creating.

There's your "real papers," ladies and gents.