On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Kevin, to moi: >>> >>> I watched the pilot. >>> >>> Does Manson have any legal recourse as a felon for the use of his name >>> and a comic book version of himself in the series? I was reminded of the >>> Wonder woman episode featuring Martin Mull as the beatnick/hippie Pied >>> Piper who used his flute to control women. It was that campy. >>> >>> I'd *think* they'd have to have cleared that in advance... >> > > I would really want to hear from an attorney or someone in the industry > who is experienced in the issue. I can easily see both sides of it. > > I confess I've been preoccupied by this all day. I don't know if there was ever a civil suit against Manson by families of victims who might subsequently have a say in the "rights" to the use of and/or profit from his likeness or his name. I know convicts can't earn money off of their convictions while incarcerated, but I don't know how much say they have in unauthorized works of fiction about themselves. It just struck me watching it that if Manson was lucid enough to sit through a one-hour NBC drama (and let's face it, one doesn't have to be Manson to struggle doing that), he'd be annoyed at how he was portrayed. Many years ago when I was in junior high, we watched a documentary in school about Jonestown. If you can imagine how watered down Jonestown has to be for it to be shown in a Christian junior high classroom, that's basically how Manson was portrayed in the pilot of Aquarius. Strumming a guitar while doe-eyed girls fawned over him, not really doing anything until the end of the episode in the parking garage, at which point I remembered that Manson famously got others to do his dirty work, so the parking garage scene only served to rip me out of the story. Manson has to be a hard character to write, since he was a puppet master, but nobody could ever quite explain how he pulled so many strings beyond getting people so full of drugs they lost all their senses. He didn't take direct action, wasn't conventionally attractive, things he said rarely if ever made sense, so you can't get Hannibal Lector style quotes from him. In "Aquarius," he looks like every male Starbucks barrista I've ever seen and speaks in "beat" poetry. I don't know. I guess I just need to let it go and wait until the new X-Files episodes to get my Duchovny fix. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
