Movieclip within movieclip

I have a movieclip called Room, and within this movieclip, I
have another movieclip called newspaper_mc. When the newspaper
image is clicked, newspaper mc plays hence the code:
newspaper_mc.onRelease = function() {
newspaper_mc.play ()
But, newspaper_mc has several buttons and when these buttons
are clicked they play different frames within that movieclip. I put
some code for the buttons, but seems to ignore this code, so when
the newspaper is clicked with the mouse, it plays the next frame
and the next because of the code I wrote above.
How do I get the buttons to work?

no because of what kglad said.
Once you start the newspaper_mc (which is the parent clip for
your other buttons) playing, do you still need to continue to
listen for clicks on it .If you don't need that then try this:
newspaper_mc.onRelease = function() {
newspaper_mc.play ()
delete newspaper_mc.onRelease
then you could do something like in your last post.

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root.sample_mc.gotoAndStop(35);
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