Originally, this post was going to be entitled "Dirty Jews" -it's OK, I'm Jewish, too- just not sexually obsessed to the degree of Dov Charney (CEO American Apparel, and quite possibly the first business executive to use his dick as a paperweight) and Woody Allen (Brilliant Director, Kitty Porn Savant)... who are currently wrapped up in a lawsuit involving the director's depiction in the clothing company's ads.
Woody picked the fight against American Apparel when he sued the company for $10 million last year for using his image on AA billboards in New York and L.A. In turn, American Apparel argued that the company "can't be held responsible for damaging Woody's reputation by using his image because the director has already ruined it himself" (alluding to Allen's affair with adopted daughter, Soon Yi). Ouch, that's ballsy American Apparel!
Woody picked the fight against American Apparel when he sued the company for $10 million last year for using his image on AA billboards in New York and L.A. In turn, American Apparel argued that the company "can't be held responsible for damaging Woody's reputation by using his image because the director has already ruined it himself" (alluding to Allen's affair with adopted daughter, Soon Yi). Ouch, that's ballsy American Apparel!
While it seems pretty tasteless for the clothing company to slander one of the most acclaimed moviemakers of our time just to deflect a lawsuit, taste is not necessarily one of American Apparel's "core values"... I mean, what other publicly traded company throws pool parties?
In defense of AA, $10 million is a lot to ask... it's not like those ads really increased sales. Woody, why don't you beat American Apparel at their own game of tastelessness and ask for something more offensive- like Dov Charney to star in your remake of Match Point or, if it's money you're after, how about $6 million... a dollar for every victim of the Holocaust*
too Soon Yi?
* The actual Holocaust death toll is closer to 11 million (including Gypsies, Poles, Soviet POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled and a surprising number of Freemasons)... oh, and I'm available for children's parties.
In defense of AA, $10 million is a lot to ask... it's not like those ads really increased sales. Woody, why don't you beat American Apparel at their own game of tastelessness and ask for something more offensive- like Dov Charney to star in your remake of Match Point or, if it's money you're after, how about $6 million... a dollar for every victim of the Holocaust*
too Soon Yi?
* The actual Holocaust death toll is closer to 11 million (including Gypsies, Poles, Soviet POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled and a surprising number of Freemasons)... oh, and I'm available for children's parties.
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