The defendants replied in April, painting Clausen as having taken too different of a direction by (a) creating a rap score for an episode and (b) delegating some of the work to others, including his son... Clausen's side replied to that just this week, contending Brooks et al harboured "discriminatory ageist beliefs" about what Clausen was capable of...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/a-79-year-old-doing-hip-hop-simpsons-is-free-speech-battles-age-bias-claims-1304562 (link) Moi, 8/06/2019: > > > Mark Jeffries, 8/30/2017: > >> Alf Clausen, after over 560 episodes, 23 Emmy nominations and 2 wins (30 >> Emmy nominations in total, the most for a composer--six of the other seven >> were for "Moonlighting" and the last for ABC's 1981 attempt to reboot >> "Omnibus"), has been fired by the "Simpsons" in an attempt to cut costs >> (which for music are in the millions per season, thanks to Matt Groening's >> insistence on a 35-piece orchestra for every episode)--his replacement >> hasn't been announced: >> >> >> http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/simpsons-composer-alf-clausen-fired-1202543183/ >> > > He is suing Fox, Disney, and Gracie Films, alleging age discrimination, > noting his successor “was substantially younger in age, [and] was not only > paid less, but was not disabled.” > > > https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/simpsons-composer-lawsuit-fox-wrongful-termination-1203292605/ > > (link) > > B -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/32a28628-11e7-4e70-9e54-4f2f440c4ae2o%40googlegroups.com.
