February 8, 2008
Randy Quaid's Lawyers Call Ban a "Smear Campaign"
Yesterday we told you all about Randy Quaid being banned for life from Actors’ Equity and fined $81,572 for abusive and lewd behavior during the Seattle production of would-be Broadway musical Lone Star Love. Since then we’ve tried to get a comment on the allegations from Quaid’s wife Evi, who attended the Equity hearing on his behalf and ended up getting into a physical altercation – she says they broke her finger while trying to forcibly bar her entrance, they say she kicked a 76-year-old receptionist in the shins, drawing blood.
Either way, it's still funny. Adding fuel to the fire, our request for comment was met with copies of two letters from Quaid’s lawyers, one they sent to Backstage and another they sent to Post reporter Michael Riedel, who first published the Equity allegations. Here’s the letter to Riedel:
You don’t ban Randy, Randy BANS YOU! After the jump, his attorney’s letter to Backstage, which excerpts a rave review definitely proving that “award winning/Oscar nominated actor” Randy Quaid held Lone Star Love up.
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you can't fire me, I quit!
How was he in the play if he wasn't in Equity?
How was he in the play if he wasn't in Equity?
It's not me, it's YOU
Too much money in the arts. Especially Hollyweird. The producers are as bad as the "talent" and their "handlers". What a dumbshow of friggin selfserving idiots all around. I am not commenting because I am entertained by it. I am commenting because I am bored by it and imagining that there can be some hope of integrity left to actors and producers in or outside the "industry". Why should we be interested in these chumps on all sides of this stupid story? Success, well earned or not, turns these "stars" into monsters. But they are just imitating their erstwhile masters.
What kind of attorney produces a letter riddled with typos? It seems as if it might have been written by Randy himself.
"Pinko-commie", gotta love that. What year is it, 1974?
HollyWEIRD, good one. Take that!