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ews that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been quarantined in Shanghai because of swine flu seems like a jolly good excuse to trot out this clip from “International House” with W.C. Fields, Burns and Allen, Stuart Erwin, Bela Lugosi and the Paris Hilton of her day, the top-billed Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who was famous for being famous. It’s set in Shanghai, there’s a quarantine, and don’t worry, it doesn’t make a whole lot more sense in context.