Pop Singer Loses Ribbon Lawsuit
Tony Orlando, former leader of pop supergroup "Tony Orlando and Dawn," has lost his court bid to receive royalties for the magnetic yellow ribbons currently adorning so many vehicles on America's highways. Said the judge in the case, the Honorable Hosiah Gundersdaughter, "If the magnetic strips were actual ribbons and the cars to which they were 'tied' oak trees, Mr. Orlando would have had a very solid case, so to speak. As it stands I could not rule in his favor." This setback follows Orlando's 1998 disappointment in which he sought to recover royalties whenever anyone "knocked three times" on the ceiling.
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I heard that he had become a communist and was bringing a lawsuit to recapture royalties from the movie "Red Dawn".
Stewdog,
No, you are mistaken. A successful lawsuit was filed by the creators of the "Happy Days" spin-off "Joanie Loves Chacci" to recover revenues from "Red Dawn." They argued persuasively that with few alterations the script of "Red Dawn" was plagiarized from the "J Loves C" pilot episode (there were half as many AK-47's fired in the latter, but otherwise they are strikingly similar).
Orlando flirted briefly with communism, and "Tony Orlando and Red Dawn" did make the charts in Havana and Pyongyang for a short while. Rob Reiner is said to have had the inspiration for his mockumentary "Spinal Tap" after catching the closing gig of their "Red Dawn Over Asia" Tour in Ho Chi Minh City, but there are no lawsuits pending yet.
That's very funny.
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