Jeff Goldblum's Mockumentary Gets Hit with a Lawsuit
Filed under: Comedy, Celebrities and Controversy
In August, I posted that Jeff Goldblum's mockumentary called Pittsburgh was finally getting released. The flick focuses on Goldblum as he takes a role in The Music Man for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera "out of love, both for the venerable musical and for his fiancee, Catherine Wreford, a Canadian actress who must get a job or risk losing her visa." Now Jam! reports that one of the women in the movie is trying to stop it from airing on cable or being distributed unless her scene is cut from the movie.Debbie Sue Croyle is a stagehand who rubbed some alcohol on Goldlum, and then blew on it to dry it so that she could tape a microphone to him. She says she was humiliated because of a double entendre/sexual innuendo he used in this scene -- certainly not the most incendiary reason to start a lawsuit. She reportedly asked the producers to either donate money to an organization that helps the mentally handicapped, or cut the scene. Since they never got back to her, she's suing for $4 million in damages.
That's one heck of an expensive innuendo! If anyone of you have seen it, please tell me what this so-called humiliating comment is, because I can't think of anything worth $4 million, especially after she signed a release for the movie. I wonder how much she would have sued for if he made the joke and accidentally spilled hot coffee on her.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:01AM
Sam said...
whatever happened to Raines? That was such a good show.
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11-14-2007 @ 9:57PM
Linda Procopio said...
The way I heard it; she never signed a release.
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11-17-2007 @ 3:05PM
Adrianne Dow Young said...
What he said, according to this article:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07319/834059-85.stm
"In one scene, Ms. Croyle is shown cleaning Mr. Goldblum's neck with alcohol to attach a microphone with tape. He complained that the alcohol burned, and to "comfort him," she blew on his neck.
Mr. Goldblum responded by changing his facial expression, and saying, 'Blow some more.'"
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11-19-2007 @ 10:39AM
Birdie said...
Call me naive, but I didn't pick up any sexual implication or double entendre in that scene, unless, every time somebody says "blow," as in "blow out the candles!" there is a sly reference to a sexual act. As for Mr. Goldblum's expression, he just looks pained and maybe disgusted, not lustful. I couldn't even remember the scene, or the woman, and had to play the movie, which I had seen twice already, to find it. Not only is Debbe Sue Croyle nuts, her lawyer are really nuts. Nobody, except maybe a warped friend or two of hers, would even know who she was, except for her lawsuit. Who asks their employer to donate their salary to charity? A person accepts a paycheck and then makes the donation herself. A person who intends seriously to stop the airing and distribution of a movie does not take action two months after the movie is released. This is a tempest in a teapot.
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1-12-2008 @ 12:29PM
Jennifer said...
I totally agree with Birdie, I just watched this movie, and there is nothing even remotely sexual about his facial expression!
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