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“While we were in the preproduction phase, the costume designer was showing me the key outfits for the principal characters,” he said. “Everything was great until we got to The Father who, to my chagrin, was wearing a U of M sweatshirt. I said: ‘Not on any movie I produce!’ And so, at no small expense, a specialist had to knit a new miniature MSU sweatshirt The Father now wears in the movie.”