Woody Allen walks in to a federal court….
Woody Allen asked a federal court on Monday to strip American Apparel, the porno clothing company which advertises itself as a fair trade hipster empire, of at least $10 million for using his image on billboards and on the Internet. We would take it as a compliment considering every other person they used were way hotter than Mr. Allen. Considering how well Dov Charney is doing with his stores and his 6,700 employees, I don’t think the $10mil will hurt him. I do think out of respect, Dov should have asked Woody for his image, but then Woody probably would not have allowed him to write “the holy rebbe.” in Yiddish over the famous image of him from ANnie Hall where he is dressed like a Chassidic man.
p.s. Dov used to come to our SOMA parties at Sin Sin couple years back. We always confused him with Berel
But what’s amazing is that this is obviously a parody. And that, my friends, is covered in the First Amendment. Remember Larry Flynt taking Jerry Falwell to court for the same thing. Flynt won. I think Dov will too in this case. The Woodster must have a movie coming out.
jessie - April 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pmParodies are protected under our first amendment rights…the supreme court has already visited this kind of isssue…larry flynt anyone? And hmm it seems to be a month shy of a year since those billboards were up, and how coincidental that he waited until such a time when a movie would coincide with the news of the lawsuit….publicity stunt anyone?
well... - April 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 am