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Yesterday more court papers were filed for the upcoming American Apparel/Woody Allen showdown, and the NY Post's Cindy Adams thinks it's going to get uglier than a Nylon Spandex Micro-Mesh Bodysuit.
To recap: after the retailer used an unauthorized image of Allen on billboards (he won't even lend his image to the I Love NY campaign), the director filed a $10 million lawsuit and called them "sleezy" amongst other things. American Apparel's lawyer Stuart Slotnick, the only one to speak out from the company thus far, has said Allen isn't worth that kind of money since he "devalued his reputation by becoming involved with his lover Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, whom he later married." Slotnick also may or may not have requested nude photos Allen allegedly took of Previn, though this was probably just for Dov Charney's personal collection (unsubstantiated!).
The case goes to court on May 18th, and apparently the defense is prepared to use Mia Farrow's memoir as proof that Allen has a "clear inability to discuss the value of any endorsement or much else outside the realm of the purely creative," since Farrow noted he had an "evident lack of familiarity with the most basic details of day-to-day existence." However, we just got this internal memo that American Apparel sent out to employees this morning, and you guys, everything is going to be okay, "Dov (and everyone else at the company) LOVES Woody Allen." That, and much more, is explained in the full memo (after the jump).
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Lawyers love to run their mouth off because it helps them in the long run, not the company they represent. Good to see they're distancing themselves from what would have been some shady tactics.
Props to American Apparel for using a billboard to SAY SOMETHING (if that's what they were doing). Ads wouldn't be so boring if more people thought that way.
meat head vs allen
Everybody loves Woody Allen. They messed up by not getting his permission to use the image. If he'd drop the whole "I'm worth $10 million" I'm sure we could all move on and be done with this crap.
How dare Allen want a multi-million dollar company to ask his permission before slapping his image on an advertisement!
Does he not get that he is making the brand seem even more hip and helping them sell more over priced underwear!
Fourth paragraph: "aren't inaccurate" means the exact opposite of what this guy is presumably trying to say.
maybe they were being honest!
Who cares if they like him?
Do they like lawsuits too?
As a corporation (lest we forget that's what they are) they should have been more responsible with their marketing.
Actually I don't like either one of them. Both of them look like pedophiles. Sexually repressed.
Allen's wife Soon PI???? Really? Is that supposed to be a phonetic joke? Or is that law firm really that lazy?
im listening to Boston rite now. hi