“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
I didn't know he was out of the closet. Last I remember, he was still denying is preference (not that it's anyone's business) to David Letterman.
ReplyDeleteThis skit nearly made me pee, though.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long long time.
ReplyDeleteThat was *great*.
It is a fantastic show in general, but that sequence was EXTRA good. Man, he got passed around like a... um... passed-around-thing.
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