Today, Tomorrow, and Always (1996)

Tim Kincaid's Hollywood novel was published by Kensington in 1996. Four women, by the jacket's account, a teenaged rock singer, a supermodel, a fading star and a magazine editor, compete for men, money and success while a stranger haunts them. On the rain-soaked location of Moonstone, the twenty-four-year-old director Billy Benton is weeks behind schedule with his stars, Maia Luce and Danton Paul Bates. (Open Library)

Watches

Rolex watch: Benton, a U.S.C. film school graduate, paces the mud consulting his solid gold Rolex while the lights are adjusted (p. 26). When his stars jockey for camera angles, he yells cut and slams the watch into a light stand; it was a graduation gift from his parents, so he checks it, finds no damage, and drops it into his canvas script bag. He later files a fifteen-thousand-dollar insurance claim for a stolen Rolex (p. 160). The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: “Cut!” he shouted. He flailed his arms wildly as he rose angrily out of his director's chair; there was a resounding clang as he promptly slammed his Rolex into a metal light stand. (Tim Kincaid, Today, Tomorrow, and Always, scan cataloged as Kensington Books, 1996, p. 27; Internet Archive scan OCR)

Rolex watch: The neo-Expressionist painter Zee Armitage, whose work Maia Luce collects, wears a solid gold Rolex, Maia's most recent tribute, at the end of a party (p. 96). Later, waking beside him, Maia turns his wrist to check the time, and the narration calls the watch Billy Benton's golden Rolex; Benton has reported his Rolex stolen. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: She lifted Zee's arm and turned his wrist, checking the time on Billy Benton's golden Rolex. (Tim Kincaid, Today, Tomorrow, and Always, scan cataloged as Kensington Books, 1996, p. 189; Internet Archive scan OCR)