Just weeks after the announcement that HBO is making a fictional film based on the documentary Crazy Love, Burt Pugach, aka "the guy who mutilated a woman's face and later married her" is suing HBO and the film's director Dan Klores for stealing his life story, reports RadarOnline:
But when Klores called Pugach to tell him the good news, the disbarred lawyer was less than thrilled. Yesterday he filed a $15 million lawsuit in Queens County Supreme Court against Klores, his attorneys and HBO, claiming they falsely enticed him and his wife Linda into signing over the rights to their story.
But even a $15 million payout may be less punishing than Pugach's second demand. In return for his participation, he is also asking HBO to broadcast his never-before-released feature, Death Over My Shoulder, a 1958 crime drama that Pugach produced with a retired industry investigator named Bob Janoff.
"And while we're at it, show my stupid movie!" Burt Pugach is the worst person in the world, worse than Denise Richards even, but you have to sort of marvel in disgusted awe at his sense of entitlement.
Varietyreports that the filmmakers behind Crazy Love, last year's documentary about Burt Pugach and Linda Riss, who got married after Burt spent many years in prison for hiring thugs to (successfully) mutilate and blind Linda by throwing lye in her face, are making a fictional version of the movie for HBO Films:
The characters that drew me to this story in the first place become magnificent roles for actors," Klores said. "These characters are very complex, and not merely ill. Even Burt is not pure evil, though his act was way beyond repulsive.
At first this news seems odd, since the main selling point of documentaries based on amazing true stories is their amazing trueness, but Crazy Love, while well-made, couldn't really succeed because every single person involved or interviewed for it except Jimmy Breslin was sort of just awful.
Earlier this week, alltheblogs were posting a video of the Rock-afire Explosion performing Usher's "Love in This Club." It was a little confusing because that video circulated weeks ago, but I'd heard that Chris Thrash was having some trouble with his videos getting taken down, and besides it's such a great video that who cares. We should probably all be posting it every day anyway. Go watch it right now, please.
But who is Chris Thrash exactly? Besides a genius? Well, apparently someone is making a feature length documentary about the Rockafire Explosion answering that very question.
It's like a cross between King of Kong and Chris Thrash's video where the Rock-afire Explosion plays Usher's "Love in This Club." And you know what they say, two rights make a feature length right.
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