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...insisting that much of Leonard's dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script it said something like, 'Where's my coat? You better find it. It cost $400.' But in the book it was, 'You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, has lapels like a suitcoat? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine ... You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine my wife paid for it at Alexander's.' It was the detail. I said I'd do the movie, but they had to put back everything they paraphrased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRAVOLTA FEVER | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...electronic gadgets are now found in countless department stores, photo marts, gift shops and other mass retail outlets. No fewer than 50 U.S. firms have started making mini-calculators, which perform the four standard mathematical functions instantaneously, yet are small enough to fit inside a man's suitcoat pocket. But lately manufacturers and retailers trying to cash in on the calculator craze have found themselves drawn into a price war that may leave some of the industry's pioneers in the minus column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Calculated Warfare | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Taking off his suitcoat, he lashed out (verbally) at "the money boys" who have "cowed Tennessee Williams;" and he then characterized professional training in acting as "training in imitation of English semi-homosexual productions...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Great American Stage | 10/5/1961 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Bruce R. Recker '52, producer of "The Mikado," said that two cast members yesterday reported the theft of an overcoat and a suitcoat, bringing the total loss to over $300. Over $200 worth of coats, suits, ties, pocketbooks, and records were first reported stolen Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Report No Progress Yet on 'Mikado' Robbery | 4/22/1952 | See Source »

...belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help, but you know it's no use. The house is empty, the yards and streets are deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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