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Shooting on Jackie Brown--an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1992 Rum Punch--was scheduled to wrap just last Friday in Los Angeles. But already fans are circulating bootleg scripts and creating unofficial Websites on the Internet, including one with a countdown clock ticking off the seconds until the planned Christmas holiday release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK IN THE ACTION | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...Prohibition created the bootleg-booze industry, Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SEX! VIOLENCE! TRASH! | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...fashion, her evening was really something to talk about. The high school senior from Sidwell Friends was taken on a whirlwind tour of all the Square's hottest locales. The highlight? A raging party at the A.D. final club. Adorned in a "royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots," as The Crimson described her attire, Chelsea chatted away with some of this country's best and brightest elitist, womanizing snobs. Dad must have been so proud...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: TO THE GOSSIP'S CHAGRIN | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

Clinton--fashionably clad for the evening in a royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots--was taken to various hot-spots around Harvard Square, including a party at the A.D. final club...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Chelsea Clinton Visits Harvard | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...District Judge William G. Bassler yesterday before imposing the maximum fine allowed under federal guidelines on Lordship, the company that holds the contract to make the nation's highest combat decoration, for selling 300 bootleg Medals of Honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

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