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You can’t rush justice! I guess? I mean, how else to explain how/why a woman would possibly be suing Hollywood for stealing Sister Act one million years after anyone even thought about Sister Act? No, you can’t rush justice. From the Hollywood Reporter:
Nearly 20 years after the Whoopi Goldberg comedy Sister Act hit theaters, Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures are being sued by a woman who claims her autobiography was the inspiration for the film and the subsequent stage musical. The plaintiff is Delois Blakely, representing herself with allegations of breach of contract, misappropriation of likeness, unjust enrichment and other claims.
According to the complaint, Blakely was a “young, Black, singing nun serving the street people and youths of Harlem,” who published the autobiography, The Harlem Street Nun in 1987. That year, she reached out to others in the industry with a three-page synopsis, including Tri Star Pictures producer Cynthia Bowles. The film executive is said to have mailed a letter back expressing interest in movie rights.
Later, according to the claims, producer Scott Rudin took a Sister Act project from Tri-Star to Disney and went on to executive produce a film that made more than $230 million at the box office, as well as producing a sequel and a Broadway musical. The studios declined to comment.
That actually sounds like a pretty solid case.
Not only was she the nun from Sister Act in real life, but she also wrote a book about it, and shopped that book around Hollywood? Case closed. Rest it. (I want to start a game show called Rest Your Case both because I want all of the money and success creating a long-running game show would entail, but even more importantly because I want to hear a life studio audience shout, “REST! YOUR! CAAAAAASE!”) Which brings us back to the 20 years thing. What’s up? Hey, Delois Blakely, what’s up? With all due R-E-S-P-E-C-T (get it?), were you too busy nunning it up all over Nun Town for the past 20 years, or whut? I’m not sure what the statute of limitations is on Annoying Hollywood Crimes, but I’m pretty sure it has passed. Sorry. The good news is that I heard it through the grapevine (get it?) and there’s no statute of limitations on building a time machine and traveling back to World War II and KILLING HITLER even just 10 years after Sister Act came out when this still might have made sense. Good luck and GOD BLESS!
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It’s like Peter Cetera says, she’s a hard habit to break.
What a conventional joke.
Looks like djfrshie is nun too pleased.
Tagline for Sister Act 3: “She’s the nun with the puns!”
this thread is divinely inspired
Whoopi Goldgerg Nun Movie BNPG!
(Only Bishops can wear) The Color Purple
Jumpin’ Jack Flash Wednesday
Corrinun, Corrinun
Boys on the Side (because of celibacy)
How Stella got her Tunic back
Holy Ghost
I object to the use of all these puns… Motion to Strike this Videogum Habit!
She probably could not move forward with her lawsuit until the police had finished putting their case together against her criminal boyfriend. And even after that, she probably was too busy mentoring a young Lauryn Hill and Jennifer Love Hewitt to put together a good lawsuit.
She was too busy before this to sue; she was wrapped up in a similar lawsuit with Sally Field.
Judges, can I get a ruling on whether or not this is the first accurate usage of a semicolon in a blog comment?
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” – Vonnegut.
FIRST of all, cool it with the bigoted remarks, VONNEGUT.
Also, I was using semicolons before I went to college, thank you very much. I have a homeless friend who was inexplicably annoyed that I used semicolons in text messages.
“Hey Boo; sext me l8r”
Shit, I love both semicolons and Vonnegut; what am I to do?
Sister Act Lawsuit Blog Article is Right On Time.
(Meaning directly following Billy Crystal Blog Article.)
I just want to mention that Sister Act is great and all, but the sequel is the best.
Off-topic: Latest entry in Bookgum is up! http://www.mobfd.biz/2011/11/11/the-need-for-sincerity-infinite-jest/
I thought for sure it would be this lady:
Can’t win em all, I guess.
it just took this long to come up on her Netflix queue
You laugh, but there is precedent for this. Last year, the author of “I Lived In A Caltech Closet” sued TriStar over “Real Genius” and was awarded six thousand million dollars.
Why sue over Sister Act? Can’t we sue over Whoopi’s true offense to our culture? – The View.
Don’t nuns take a vow of poverty?
Did we all read the Paul Rudnick thing in the New Yorker where he describes writing the script for Sister Act. Or as we will all have to call it from now on “Exhibit A for the Defense.” Because Rudnick wrote the movie as A STAR-VEHICLE FOR BETTE MIDLER. Who is NOT BLACK. Here is a link to to story, which you cannot read unless you are a subscriber: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/07/20/090720fa_fact_rudnick
In conclusion HEY LOOK AT ME I READ THE NEW YORKER.
Here is a 12-minute podcast in which Rudnick talks about the essay that you can listen to whether you subscribe or not. Rudnick is so funny! http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/07/20/090720on_audio_rudnick