`TITANIC' BATTLE RAGING IN COURT OVER COPIES OF NECKLACE.Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer Lawsuit, dead ahead! As the top-grossing movie of all time slowly fades from view at the box office, a ``Titanic'' legal battle between two mail-order companies is just starting to gather steam. J. Peterman J. Peterman can refer to the following people:
(hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. Suarez Corp. sued each other earlier this week, fighting over the right to market far-from-priceless reproductions of the Heart of the Ocean necklace coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. in the film. Peterman Pe´ter`man n. 1. A fisherman; - so called after the apostle Peter. and 20th Century Fox sued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday, claiming Suarez is selling an illegal $19 knockoff knock·off n. Informal An unauthorized copy or imitation, as of designer clothing: "the place to go for quality knockoffs" Women's Wear Daily. Noun 1. called Jewel of the Sea. Suarez sued in Ohio on the same day, claiming Peterman's brochures are misleading customers into paying $198 for a pendant made of ``cheap acrylic plastic.'' The piece of jewelry, anchored by an enormous blue sapphire, was a fiction invented by ``Titanic'' producers and was not part of the cargo that went down with the real ship. In the film, it's supposed to be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic, thrown there by the elderly Rose DeWitt Bukater. In reality, a faux version can be bought by anyone with a phone and a credit card. Peterman's and Suarez's necklaces shouldn't be confused with the one worn by Celene Dion when she sang ``My Heart Will Go On'' at the Academy Awards. That combination of real sapphires and diamonds was auctioned off for $2.2 million to benefit Princess Diana's charities. The origin of the film prop is less romantic. As the Suarez lawsuit points out, ``the necklace actually worn in the movie was fake, being made of cubic zirconium zirconium (zərkō`nēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Zr; at. no. 40; at. wt. 91.22; m.p. about 1,852°C;; b.p. 4,377°C;; sp. gr. 6.5 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, or +4. .'' Suarez took out full-page ads in several major newspapers last weekend, advertising its necklace next to a picture of a Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike. And by the way, that's the real Kate Winslet pictured in the Peterman catalog. |
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