“Male Lead In ‘Sex And The City’ Calls Carrie Bradshaw A Whore“Christopher Noth of The Good Wife and Sex and the City fame just called Sarah Jessica Parker’s iconic character, Carrie Bradshaw, a whore. Even if Noth made a joke, which his rep says was the case, it wasn’t necessarily a good one.
Noth, who played Carrie’s on-and-off again boyfriend-turned-husband, Mr. Big, was beloved and hated by Sex and the City fans. His standoffish character was often cold and callous, and contributed to a very damaging relationship. But speaking to News.com.au in Australia, Noth blamed the unhealthy relationship on his counterpart.
“[Big] was what he was. One of the things I tell people is that he never tried to pretend he was anything other than what he was. It was (Carrie) who tried to pretend he was something he wasn’t. He was always honest about himself; he never cheated on her. The relationship just didn’t work, and he went on to get married while she went on to … how many boyfriends did she have? She was such a whore! There’s a misconception that Carrie was a victim of him, and that’s not the case. She was a strong, smart woman.”
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LOS ANGELES (CN) – A federal judge said Monday that he is not “inclined” to rule in favor of Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke in their court battle with Marvin Gaye’s estate and Funkadelic’s music publisher over “Blurred Lines.”
Last year, pop singer Robin Thicke “reluctantly” sued Marvin Gaye’s estate in federal court, insisting his feel-good hit of the summer was not a rip off of Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” or Funkadelics’s “Sexy Ways.” The suit also named publisher Bridgeport Music, Frankie Christian Gaye, Marvin Gaye III and Nona Marvisa Gaye as defendants.
Marvin Gaye’s estate and Bridgeport Music filed counterclaims after Thicke asked a judge to declare that the 2013 hit did not violate copyright law.
Thicke and his collaborators on “Blurred Lines,” singer-producer Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., asked the court on Monday to grant them summary judgment. To support their motion, the plaintiffs submitted the declarations of three experts.
But U.S. District Court Judge John Kronstadt issued a tentative order after the hearing, denying the request. The case was taken under submission, and the order did not specify when Kronstadt will issue a ruling.
In their 2013 complaint, Thicke and Williams said they filed suit after threats of legal action.
“There are no similarities between plaintiffs’ composition and those the claimants allege they own, other than commonplace musical elements,” the pop stars state in their complaint. “Plaintiffs created a hit and did it without copying anyone else’s composition.”
Instead, “Blurred Lines” only evoked an “era,” and is “starkly different” from the Gaye’s and Funkadelic’s songs, the pop stars said.
In a May interview with GQ magazine, Thicke said the number 1 hit was written and recorded in two hours.
“Pharrell and I were in the studio and I told him that one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up,'” Thicke said in the interview. “I was like, ‘Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.'”
But in a deposition, Thicke said that he had overplayed his part in the creation of the song and was drunk and on Vicodin when it was recorded.
“To be honest, that’s the only part where – I was high on Vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio. So my recollection is when we made the song, I thought I wanted – I – I wanted to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit,” Thicke said, according to the deposition obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “So I started kind of convincing myself that I was a little more part of it than I was and I – because I didn’t want him – I wanted some credit for this big hit. But the reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song.”
Thicke is represented by Howard King with King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner. The attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Hollywood actress Elizabeth Peña has died, People magazine reported Wednesday. She was 55.
The actress passed away Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of natural causes after a brief illness, her manager Gina Rugolo told the news site. Further details about her passing were not provided.
Peña had a career in entertainment that spanned four decades. She won four American Latino Media Arts Awards (ALMAs), according to the Internet Movie Database.
She was known for her roles in films such as “La Bamba,” “Transamerica,” “Lone Star,” “Rush Hour,” “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Free Willy 2.” She also appeared on the small screen with stints on shows like “Matador,” “L.A. Law,” “Dream On,” “Resurrection Blvd.” and “Modern Family,” where she played the mother of Sofia Vergara’s character, Gloria.
She lent her voice to characters in the films “The Incredibles” and “American Dad” and the cartoon series “Justice League.”
Peña directed a few television show episodes and also founded the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, the Los Angeles Times wrote.
“In the United States, all Spanish-speaking people are lumped into one category,” Peña said in a 1996 interview with the Dallas Morning News, according to the Los Angeles Times. “But we’re all so different. Argentinians are completely different from Mexicans. Mexicans are completely different from Cubans. Cubans are completely different from people from Paraguay and Uruguay.”
Peña was born Sept. 23, 1959, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and lived in Cuba for part of her childhood.
Being an entertainer ran in Peña’s blood. Her mother, Estella Margarita, was a producer and an arts administrator and her father, Mario, was an actor, writer and director.
She is survived by her husband, Hans Rolla; her daughter, Fiona; her son, Kaelan; as well as her mother and a sister.
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By BARBARA LEONARD
MANHATTAN (CN) – As Kesha lobbed a sexual-assault action against Dr. Luke in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the super-producer countered with defamation claims in New York.
The producer, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, sued Kesha Rose Sebert and her mother, Pebe Sebert, on Tuesday in New York County Supreme Court.
Vector Management and its president, Jack Rovner, are also named as defendants. Gottwald is joined as a plaintiff by his company Kasz Money.
Kesha meanwhile sued Gottwald, Kasz Money and others in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Gottwald says he discovered the “Timber” singer when she was an unknown in Nashville in 2005. His efforts allegedly turned Kesha “into the prominent platinum-selling artist that she is today.”
By teaming up with Vector last year, Kesha and her mother “have sought to break her agreement with Gottwald,” the complaint states.
Gottwald says Kesha is no longer delivering her sound recordings to him, or letting him produce her work.
Kesha and her mother’s latest claims that Gottwald physically and mentally abused Kesha are defamatory and simply “part of her repudiation of her contract,” the complaint states.
“These defamatory statements contain lurid allegations of physical and mental abuse of Kesha – allegations that Kesha and Pebe have themselves admitted are false,” Gottwald says (emphasis in original). “Kesha and her mother Pebe have wielded these defamatory statements in an attempt to extort Gottwald into releasing Kesha from the exclusive recording agreement.
“Defendants’ injurious conduct should not be countenanced. Gottwald has upheld his end of the bargain, devoting the better part of a decade to transforming Kesha from an unknown entity into a well-known recording star. Kesha’s repudiation of this contractual relationship, and her and her mother’s ongoing campaign to extort a release by tarnishing Gottwald’s reputation, has caused damage to Gottwald as alleged herein.”
The producer says he, his attorney, his representatives and others received emails in late 2013 from Pebe that “claimed, among other things, that ‘Dr. Luke abused Kesha, both physically and mentally.'”
“Pebe also indicated that she was ‘sending all of this [i.e., her accusations about Gottwald]’ to a blogger who started a ‘Free Kesha’ website,” Gottwald added. “All of these accusations above are false. Indeed, Pebe and Kesha know these accusations are false.
“Despite the patent falsity of these accusations, Pebe has made clear that extortion is the ultimate goal of this defamatory campaign.”
Pebe allegedly threatened to “further disseminate accusations of the type above unless Gottwald makes substantial business concessions and lets Kesha out of” her contract with Gottwald.
“Pebe has also had Kesha terminate her attorneys and hire new ones, who have threatened to sue Gottwald and KMI over various meritless claims unless plaintiffs agree to release Kesha from the Gottwald recording agreement,” the complaint states.
Gottwald says one of his business partners got a look this past summer at a “draft complaint” Kesha’s attorneys threatened to file against Gottwald unless he let Kesha out of her recording agreement.
The producer seeks punitive damages for defamation, breach of contract and tortious interference. He is represented by Christine Lepera with Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.
Kesha’s Lawsuit
The 28-page complaint Kesha filed in Los Angeles paints a different story. It describes Kesha as a “family-oriented” ingenue who was led by Gottwald into dropping out of high school for “a glamorous music career.”
Gottwald allegedly let Kesha’s career “languish” while he focused on the careers of more lucrative artists. When she did see him, Gottwald bragged about getting his dates drunk so that he could “fuck them in the ass,” the complaint alleges.
Kesha says she became desensitized by Gottwald’s actions, which allegedly included cheating on his pregnant wife, demanding that the wife get an abortion, and engaging in “explicit sexual activities with other females” at nightclubs.
“Dr. Luke sexually, physically, and verbally abused Ms. Sebert for a decade in order to make her feel completely worthless and maintain complete control over her life,” the complaint states. “On one occasion, Dr. Luke forced Ms. Sebert to snort an illicit drug before they were scheduled to take a flight. Once on the plane, Dr. Luke continuously forced himself on Ms. Sebert while she was intoxicated and drugged. Ms. Sebert was in such an intoxicated state on the plane that she vomited on herself during the flight.”She says Gottwald gave her “sober pills” on another occasion, but that the drugs turned out to be the “date-rape drug.”
“Ms. Sebert immediately called her mother … telling her that she was naked in Dr. Luke’s hotel room, she did not know where her clothes were, that Dr. Luke had raped her, and that she needed to go to the emergency room,” the complaint states.
Kesha says she never spoke out because Gottwald threatened to “destroy both Ms. Sebert and her entire family.”Though Kesha’s career took off in late 2008 when her vocals were featured in the Flo Rida track “Right Round,” she says Gottwald “constantly insulted her songwriting, vocals, clothing, body, and appearance, as being far below his standards, as well as ‘Hollywood’s standards.'”Kesha says she finally had to seek help in January 2014 and spent two months in a rehabilitation facility.Gottwald’s alleged abuse made Kesha bulimic and severely depressed.
The producer’s other companies, Prescription Songs dba Where Da Kasz At?, Kemosabe Entertainment and Kemosabe Records, are also named as defendants.
Kesha seeks punitive damages and rulings that void her contracts with Gottwald and his companies. She alleges sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, emotional distress, negligent retention and supervision, and violations of various California laws.
She is represented by Mark Ger
Source: Courthouse News Service
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