Gothamist: Woody Allen Sues American Apparel

jessecal

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:21:20 -0500

AA shoud have used a cheap model to dress up like an orthodox Jew for a photo shoot! AA's market demo relly doesn't know what 'Annie Hall' is (a movie? - a club venue?)!! -And if they did- they sure don't give a crap about it OR Woody Allen... a has-been 'real Jew' schmuck-putz, left over from the 20th century! Jesse Califano/

edEx

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:53:40 -0500

$10 million equals about 23 t shirts.

Kathryn E

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:04:05 -0500

Humorist Ryan Glaser wrote a hilarious piece on Woody suing American Apparel at: ryanglaser.com

Snoopy

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:31:49 -0500

The guy is washed up. He should go back to writing gag lines for Sid Caeser. Pedophile that he is.

La Leone

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:21:41 -0500

Oh look, it's Dirty Old Man Asiaphile Child Molester vs. Younger Dirty Old Man Asiaphile Child Molster. These two should instead JOIN forces to form one creepy, creative union of Semetic sexual repression.

Fritzdecat

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:05:10 -0500

He needs the money his latest movies have been utter shyte

Snoopy

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:52:52 -0500

And here I was to think, a nice Jewish boy he was.

Politburo

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:31:55 -0500

citylion: I don't understand the outrage. It's a simple statement. Many celebrities do not do endorsements in the US, but will endorse products in foreign markets.

suepart

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:08:22 -0500

if this is true, this ad really blows..that chick with the dog was a zillion times better. if it's april's fool, yuck fou

citylion

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:58:02 -0500

"...does not engage in the commercial endorsement of products or services in the United States." Where does he live? Does he have residences here? That pisses me off that he said such a blanketed statement. I hope that the judge sees it as a rude disregard to his origins and drops the case on that comment. I haven't been able to say anything directly bad about Allen before but that comment just rang off the stupidity scale and I'll have something to say from this point on. Give the guy a Euro for his thoughts; jerk.

yse

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:57:40 -0500

Actually, looks like Yiddish. They use the same alphabet you know.

Snoopy

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:36:46 -0500

The Jewish Roman Polanski. For a few more shekels he needs? From privacy rights he writes?

BongoBoy

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:32:49 -0500

Hebrew, not Yiddish, dummkopfs!

Aristocrat

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:06:42 -0500

As Grammy Hall would say, "He's a real jew."

LinkMan

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:05:05 -0500

The yiddish writing declares Woody to be "the holy rebbe."

Tgirl

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:53:19 -0500

American Apparel is a creepy enterprise. Even the mannaquins look like they carry STDs.

amsci

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:52:29 -0500

Matty - Either that or they figured it was better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. *shrug*

MFer

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:50:26 -0500

I'm rooting for Woody Allen. Hope he takes down the whole American Apparel bullshit industry, including those signs.

str1cken

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:48:54 -0500

Oh crap it's actually real. NM.

str1cken

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:48:07 -0500

April fools, anyone? Anyone?

mihow

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:46:50 -0500

While I do agree that they were stupid to use the image and that the president of the company is a bit creepy, they DO work out America and employ Americans and that's something I really think we need more of. So, I don't want to see them fail but I do think they need to step it up a bit and clean up their image. It's a shame this is happening. They really are trying to do a good thing.

babyhitler

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:29:20 -0500

finally, I hope that child molesting president of AA Dov Charney gets his ass taken to the cleaners.

dimshine

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:28:32 -0500

it's that old joke, 'i'd never endorse an apparel company that would have me as its celebrity endorser' or something like that.

matty

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:50 -0500

Wow if AA didn't previously get the rights for his celebrity approved then they are really really stupid - though it could have been their marketing company who screwed up.

suepart

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:24:55 -0500

that ad sucks big time, maybe even more than his daughter wife soon yi and woody allen themselves.