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Actor Who Played Jethro On ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Suing CBS Over BBQ Restaurant
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| December 11, 2014
Posted on 12/11/2014 5:06:12 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan
Its not a secret deal; we just cant talk about it.
To: GeronL
why do actors think they own their characters I'll have to take the side of Max Baer Jr on this one. He was not well compensated when they were shooting these episodes, they wrecked any future career for him as a result of his being typecast, and I would say an person ought to pretty much own their own image.
Intellectual property laws seem to me to be subject to a lot of abuse nowadays.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:17:27 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
To: GeronL
“why do actors think they own their characters”
Because the licensing rights are sometimes a very lucrative portion of the actor’s total contractual compensation for his services as an actor, spokesperson, and publicity attraction. This is especially true for some television series actors who are too typecast in a long running series to secure enough future roles to amount to any further substantial compensation.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:18:23 PM PST
by
WhiskeyX
To: Celtic Conservative; Vaquero
Well didnt he go to Potts School. Remember the delight on Miss Hathaway's face when she learned that he was an Oxford man!
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:19:02 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
To: GeronL
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:20:04 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Gay State Conservative
Went to Marine World to become a marine.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:20:19 PM PST
by
IDFbunny
To: Vaquero
He better commence to ciphering .
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:20:43 PM PST
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
To: 11th_VA
He thought it was mushroom. I remember that one too.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:21:13 PM PST
by
amnestynone
(A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
To: SMGFan
I still say Jethro was puttin’ the hillbilly log to Miss Hathaway!
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:21:49 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: SMGFan
Max is a good guy.Well, from what I’ve read about him.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:22:48 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Mr. K
A contract is a contract. CBS is the bad guy here...Only, well, they aren't, since they helped the restaurant ensure that they were not infringing on the copyright. The restaurant changed their character's image to remove the rope belt, changed the shirt, added suspenders - just enough to ensure that they weren't infringing. There was no contract between CBS and the restaurant to license the character or their use of the name.
So, well, the lawsuit is pretty much dead in the water before it even started. But hey, some lawyer's going to make money.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:24:17 PM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kjam22
Will they have a billiard (bill-E-ard) head mounted on the wall?
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:24:34 PM PST
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
To: SMGFan
I remember Alan Hale Jr. having a restaurant called The Lobster Barrel in Los Angeles.
To: SMGFan
I believe his father was Max Baer, the heavyweight champion, whose story is partly told in “Cinderella Man”.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:27:46 PM PST
by
djf
(OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
To: windcliff
Correction: It was Alan Hale's Lobster Locker.
To: SMGFan
“Put me down Jethro”. Miss Jane Hathaway
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:34:58 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: djf
Uncle was Buddy Baer a prize fighter
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:36:48 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
How about Mickey Rooney’s Weiner World. He lost a bunch on that investment.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:38:32 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: DiogenesLamp
I’ll have to take the side of Max Baer Jr on this one. He was not well compensated when they were shooting these episodes, they wrecked any future career for him as a result of his being typecast, and I would say an person ought to pretty much own their own image.
...
According to IMDB he made $35 million on the movie Macon County Line.
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:38:54 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: SMGFan
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posted on
12/11/2014 5:40:45 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
(Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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