When Danielle sits at Clay's desk, she picks up a baseball and he tells her that that specific ball had been once hit by Babe Ruth. At the beginning of the film we see what may be the same baseball on Rory's desk, just behind his laptop. This could be a hint that Clay had used his latest novel ("The Words") as a means of confessing what he himself had done in his youth.
The Old Man: He found out sometime later that what she'd actually said was: "Pay your check and get the hell out of here". But who is he to question fate?
What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Unrated Extended Cut?
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Interested customers of the DVD/BD will get an extended version prolonging the theatrical cut by more than 5 minutes. Next to additional story, we can also observe that there was more coarse language to begin with. However, that surely would have meant that the movie got rated R, so it's not surprising that adjustments were made in order to use more harmless terms here. Even more obvious is that the editors tried to reduce the film's runtime to a more cinema-friendly duration by shortening an endless amount of scenes. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.