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Missing scene in the restaurant


Is there a cut or missing scene from this film. I am thinking of the imagined restaurant sequence where Jerry & Rupert are having lunch & Jerry begs Rupert to take over his show for a few weeks. In the well known still photo of them laughing together, Rupert is wearing a blue suit with a gold tie with a window behind him, but in the film itself he has a dark suit on in a completely different room ?

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I've always wondered about that too. I don't remember seeing De Niro wearing the black suit/gold tie combo in the film at all (I must just be forgetting tho), so it could be a scrapped scene?

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The only deleted scene I've watched was Jerry's opening monologue, but I've heard several other cut scenes mentioned by other people - such as a flirtation between Rita and the guy imitating/mocking Rupert in the restaurant. I wonder if there's a different DVD available with a director's cut or a more extensive collection of deleted scenes.

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That scene is in my version of the movie(iTunes purchase). Rupert is imagining it after the first night he meets Jerry. And during the fantasy a girl comes up and asks Rupert for his autograph but not Jerry.

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I just watched my VHS copy the other day and it had this scene as well.

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