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| | Thank You For Smoking, atom.xml - Defamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Here's the short, possibly oversimplified version: After Paramount Classics agreed to a "handshake deal" to buy Thank You for Smoking at the Toronto film festival, the movie's producer, a dot-com billionaire allegedly ignorant of The Way Things Are Done in Hollywood, then turned around and made an "actual deal" to sell it to Fox Searchlight. |
 | | Paramount Classics, it should be noted, is less than pleased with this outcome, and wackiness ensues. |
 | | When asked if she and [producer David] Sacks had spoken about the dispute, [Paramount Classics co-pres Ruth] Vitale said they did and all Sacks could do was "stutter." She said she got the same response from veteran William Morris sales agent Cassian Elwes, who was representing the film at the festival. |
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