MOVIES - Aug. 31, 1987
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Kirk Douglas has filed a $17.8 million breach-of-contract suit over his firing as celebrity spokesman for Sperry Corp. Douglas said he had a $2.5-million contract for a minimum of two years to do TV commercials and personal appearances and that it was terminated a year early after Sperry merged with Burroughs Corp. last fall to form Unisys Corp. A Unisys spokesman, Peter Hynes, said company lawyers have not seen the suit, filed in federal court in New York.
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