“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 have been asked about Takeshi's Castle a number of times, but I am under the impression that the show is quite old. It certainly isn't aired anywhere around here anymore, and the snippets I have seen appear late-80s, early-90s in style, clothes, and hair-dos. (Hair-don'ts, more like).
ReplyDeletePeek around a bit more here, and you'll find a girl-idol band that is wearing pork hats and being stalked by a komodo dragon on a live set.
"Normal"? Not really. Common? Yeah, pretty much.
I wanna see the MAKE article on this.
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