Posted on 12/11/2014 5:06:12 PM PST by SMGFan
Max Baer made a ton of money in Hollywood producing. Other than being the son of the heavyweight champ and Jethro, he was most famous for allegedly throwing the wildest parties in Hollywood.
I forgot about that one.
What about him being a general or something since he bought a tank and ran around some forest in it?
Nope, it was the Lobster Barrel.
Ate there a few times and even met The Skipper.
Max is a very solid conservative and does a lot to promote conservative candidates. I met him at a JD Hayworth fundraiser in Arizona a few years back. If you look at his movie production career after he finished the Beverly Hillbillies you’ll also see that he is a helluva business man. Hollywood liberals are great at spending 200 million to make a movie that grosses 180 million. Max mad movies that had 1000% returns on multiple occasions. As far as this deal goes, CBS sold him the food and lodging rights fair and square and then it appears they went and collected money from a Restaurant for those very same rights. I thinks poor dumb Jethro is going to be getting a check in the mail from CBS soon.
“I still say Jethro was puttin’ the hillbilly log to Miss Hathaway!”
Pretty sure she’s lesbo.
I think I read a while back that she was one of the first to come ‘out’ in Hollywood as a lessie. Jethro was just tryin’ to change her back from the dark side!
Looked it up. The MOVIE made 30 million world wide. I don't know how much of that ended up in his pocket, but he was the writer, the director, and an actor in it, so he ought to have been compensated well for it.
This does not really impact his claim to the Jethro Bodine character. For that character, he pretty much ruined his future career in acting (this movie that he wrote and directed being the exception) he wasn't well compensated for his Jethro character, It is my understanding he didn't get any royalties or residuals, and he ought to be able to own his own face.
I think Max Baer Jr. acquired the rights to “Beverly Hillbillies” properties years ago. Not the rights to the old episodes of the TV series, but to use the Beverly Hillbillies name and theme in business ventures.
If I remember correctly, Max tried to get financing for a Beverly Hillbillies hotel-casino in Las Vegas some years ago, but it didn’t happen. He then tried to open another version of the hotel-casino in Reno, then Carson City, but to my knowledge neither property was constructed.
One of the problems was that Max wanted a huge oil well shooting flames into the air on the proposed property, but the powers-that-be balked at the flaming faux oil well.
Max sounds like a great guy and I wish him the best.
Well, in this case, because he actually does. They cut a deal with him to give him these licensing rights.
I have tossed a few back with Max. Good guy.
I use to eat at The Hungry Tiger when I was a kid. It was started by the Flying Tigers pilots and it had a location in L.A.
My initial reaction was that either CBS or the man who created “The Beverly Hillbillies”, Paul Henning (or his estate) probably own the rights to the character. However, after reading the article, it sounds like Max Baer Jr, has a legitimate complaint, since he had a licensing deal with CBS.
Poor Jethro.
It’d take about 5 gallons of Granny’s ‘medicine’ for me to even think about it!
The Right To Arm Baers
The Beverly hillbillies was a Max Bear Production. He wasn’t just an actor.
His uncle was Buddy Baer, who played a big gladiator in “Quo Vadis” in the early 50s! He played a big muscle-bound man who was the bodyguard to a pretty red-haired Christian princess. She’d been raised by a Roman couple on the death of her parents. A young Roman Army soldier/commander.(Robert Taylor)converts to Christianity after falling in love with the girl (Deborah Kerr), and eventually befriends the secret Christian community she belongs to. The Buddy Baer character also is secretly Christian and has a positive influence on the young Roman man who’s impressed with his courage. He tries to save them both in the end from persecution by Emp. Nero. (Peter Ustinov) I don’t know if you or anyone else has seen it, so I’ll leave it at that! Both Max Baer’s father and this actor-uncle were body-builders!
I just discovered that someone made a video game where the character has the same first and last name as me. My last name is very rare. Maybe I can collect royalties? Hmmm, I wonder??????? My Hyundai does need tires......
Because,
"...snagged a deal with CBS in 1991 allowing him to license the use of that fictional character for things like restaurants, hotels and casinos..."
He does.
PC for hill-billy? (hill dweller)
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