Tuesday, June 27, 2006

COMING TO AMERICA was a rip-off?!


Was I the only person left on the planet who didn't know this?

Apparently, an old man named Art Buchwald, whom I'd never heard of, "is also known for the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit, which he and partner Alain Bernheim filed against Paramount Pictures in 1988 in a controversy over the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America. Buchwald claimed Paramount had stolen his script idea. He won, was awarded damages, and then accepted a settlement from Paramount. The case was the subject of a 1992 book, Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald V. Paramount by Pierce O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal."

Good GAWD, y'all!
Somebody, ANYbody... Say it ain't so!

"First The Fat Boys and now this. It's like there's nuthin' to believe in, anymore."

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