“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 )
Thanks for putting that up... it's wonderful. I was just reading Eric Idle's tour journal "Fat Bastard" and he talks about how kind Chapman was. I hadn't known that he was a doctor first.
ReplyDeleteIdle also tells the story of how the Pythons would amuse themselves by speculating on who they would cannibalize first, if they were stranded at sea in a life raft. General consensus: Cleese. Because he was the biggest and meatiest.
I might be able to eat Cleese. Idle seems like his meat would be kind of stringy.
ReplyDeleteGilliam looks well-marbled, but I don't know if I could handle the dreams.
ReplyDeleteEat his heart!
ReplyDeleteCapture his power!
(Man, I wish they'd show that ritual on Pokémon.)