Any Entertainment Lawyers out there?
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Any Entertainment Lawyers out there?
Tobor7 | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 07:46 pm     Great going Bohawkins! The lawsuit would certainly bring to public view all the contracts and show schedules, plans, designs, etc. Do you think it is a coincidence that Mike Boogie happens to know ChiChi's brother?? What are the odds of that!? If you were running the show, and had a favorite HG that you wanted to win... it would not be hard to affect the game. Call the person in to DR when they are in a tough spot. Do many private conv interruptions of the people you don't like, etc. How much did Mike Boogie's bar benefit from his spot on the show? (A lot!!) He didn't have to even win to advance his agenda. I would bet there are transcripts of all the DR sessions -- in case of legal problems later. If any of the producers told Amy anything about what she should do when she got back in the house-- then the others would have a good shot at a lawsuit. I think we are going to get some good info with this discussion. Let's keep it up. |
Draheid | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 07:54 pm     IMHO - The key words to consider in this statue is: ..purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill... What intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill is required in this contest? IMO, it seems to be more of a contest of endurance than anything truly intellectual. If it were based solely on intellectual, Roddy and Gerry would certainly still be in the house vying for the grand prize. JMO - FWIW |
Kennyb | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 08:21 pm     If they were so upset with Amy getting a second chance......why not vote her out?They've had a couple of weeks to do it but THEY voted out Gerry and Roddy instead.I don't think you OR the H.G. would have any luck in a lawsuit. Just my $.02 FWIW. |
Demeter | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 08:24 pm     I like to think of it differently. I like to think that it is an entertainment show that offers a bonus of $500,000 to the person who is able to perform the job best. They each get a weekly stipend, they don't "win" the stipend, they earn it by remaining in the house and entertaining us. Part of their task is to try to stay in the house, so we are further entertained with their "game play". The last person standing, earns a huge bonus. |
Tobor7 | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:02 pm     "...contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill..." or "sporting event"? Answer is clear. |
Bohawkins | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:04 pm     Draheid- please don't confuse the term intellectual here for meaning anything relating to high intelligence, or being well educated. Here intellectual knowledge would simply mean a contest which would require providing any information, no matter how mundane, that someone knows, like the total number of children all the houseguests had (as was asked in one contest), or remembering what Josh said when he tried on the grass skirt (as Jason did). Intellectual skill might mean any contest where the mind is used to solve a puzzle, for example, like finding something hidden in the house (like in an earlier contest). The term intellectual, as used here, legally implies no comparative or quantifiable value to the complexity of the contest or the intelligence of the contestant, e.g., a retarded person could win a contest of intellectual knowledge competing with a genius if you asked a question like what color was the bathroom wall, instead of asking them to name the greatest sculpture done by Benvenuto Cellini. Also it is significant to note in the paragraph (3) that the code restates the conditions of what is unlawful, adding the word "chance" to the definition with no tie to the term intellectual. The term "chance" was also included in the Sec. 509. title. Such could include the water slide event. Unlawful--(3)To engage in any artifice or scheme for the purpose of prearranging or predetermining in whole or in part the outcome of a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance. |
Draheid | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:06 pm     Bohawkins: It was a joke, please don't misconstrue my humor as anything more than the comical intent of a bored individual. I apologize if I offended you. JMO - FWIW |
Cba79 | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:06 pm     Boy, I would love to get my hands on the BB rulebook. I bet that would be a very interesting read! Of course, looking at some of these HGs...it may actually be a picture book or scratch-and-sniff! |
Tobor7 | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:19 pm     I am surprised that they let them read from the BB rule book OUT LOUD (for us to hear) the other day. Didn't read much, but enough. It looked fairly big too. A 3-ring binder. The pages looked like they were in plastic. |
Tobor7 | Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 08:51 pm     They went to the rule book again last night. Seems BB is trying to stop them from slamming the evicted HG's by name. |
Tobor7 | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 02:16 am     bump |
Marcieb | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:31 am     Was Lisa kidding yesterday afternoon when she said she got into their contracts that any post-BB3 photos will be exclusive to Lisa Donohue? She said it so matter-of-factly and the others all agreed completely. Sounds ridiculous now that I think about it but at the time I was amazed. She mentioned how huge their contracts were and that she had a page slipped in somewhere saying she was the exclusive photographer. The others commented on how smart she was to have foreseen that. |
Tobor7 | Friday, September 13, 2002 - 05:18 pm     Certainly kidding. ASP would never offer that to someone who can't even say the word "picture"! |
Tobor7 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 04:48 pm     I guess I should put the call out to any LA district clerks now. We want that contract! |
Sherbabe | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 08:35 pm     Speaking of Lawyers........just read in another thread that when Chiara went to the judge for her DUI charge, she was accompanied by Mike Boogie. How nauseating is that. Birds of a feather, I guess. |
Tobor7 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 09:55 pm     Yeah. SEEMS her brother is friends with Mike B. Small world??? (spit) |
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