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Woody Allen wins American Apparel lawsuit, gets $5 million

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Woody Allen
sued clothing company American Apparel for using an image of him from "Manhattan," in which he was dressed up as a rabbi, without his permission on one or two of their billboards.

Minutes before the jury selection today, the two parties settled, TMZ reports.

Woody gets $5 million, which is better than a poke in the eye.

Thank heavens. We really didn't want to dredge up all that Mia Farrow, Soon Yi stuff again.

Icky.

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The Guardian made Dov Charney a fricken' published journalist this morning when they put up his statement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/18/american-apparel-woody-allen

Even without talking about the Farrow-Soon Yi topic, the above addresses something else though. It really didn't look like your typical American Apparel ad when I first saw it floating around. I get the meaning behind it now. As someone that really gets behind their Legalize LA stuff, I thought that this was a good quote:

"The billboards were designed to inspire dialogue. They were certainly never intended to sell clothes. (And they didn't. We recently hired a market-research company to determine the commercial impact, if any, of the billboards; they found they had no impact on anyone's decision to shop at our stores.) This was not the first time we used a billboard for something other than to promote our products. Before and since we've used them to express social messages -- including, for example, our support of immigration reform."

Also, the image is actually from "Annie Hall", not "Manhattan". I'm calling that out as bait to for a comment.

Poor Woody. He never understood that the billboards were a compliment from a youth oriented company. His lawsuit gave them miles of free publicity and confirmed that his head is still up his tukus.

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