The idea of a Hollywood-themed movie had come to them, one primarily focused on a faded star with hopes of a comeback
In this respect Coffee and Cigarettes resembles a cumulative, organically interrelated short story collection such as James Joyces Dubliners , Sherwood Andersons Winesburg, Ohio , Ernest Hemingways In Our Time , or Ray Bradburys The Martian Chronicles , rather than an assortment of loose pieces rattling around inside a common container, such as Bradburys The Illustrated Man , Nelson Algrens The Neon Wilderness , Flannery OConnors Everything That Rises Must Converge , or Thomas Pynchons Slow Learner
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Pushing the cigarette makers to comply and avoid penalties
The device drove up sales of the company's new-generation smoking products to nearly $1 billion in the last quarter, from some $200 million just a year ago