Glenn Close wears a Bulgari

The Paper (1994) is Ron Howard's day-in-the-life of a scrappy New York tabloid, with Glenn Close as Alicia Clark, the managing editor whose job is to say no to the things the newsroom wants. In a quiet hotel-room moment she pinches the skin beside her watch, a square steel Bulgari on a brown leather strap, the name legible across the dark dial. It is a precise, expensive, slightly severe watch, which is the register Close plays the whole film in.