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  • Re: MT VOID, 10/18/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 16, Whole Number 2350 [a little l

    From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Mon Oct 28 23:18:13 2024
    In article <vfofnc$12onm$2@dont-email.me>,
    Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
    In fact, the professor hired as a historical advisor for the film
    asked to have her name removed from the credits when she
    discovered that her function was to provide support for what the
    filmmakers wanted to do (e.g., have female gladiators who fought
    with razor blades on their nipples) rather than to help them get
    the film to be accurate.

    [Hal Heydt]
    Dorothy was once told, by someone in the business, that the sole
    and exclusive purpopse of a studio Research Department was to
    answer one--and only one--question: Can this get us sued?

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  • From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to Hal Heydt on Tue Oct 29 03:29:56 2024
    Hal Heydt wrote:
    Dorothy was once told, by someone in the business, that the sole and exclusive purpopse of a studio Research Department was to answer
    one--and only one--question: Can this get us sued?

    I'd think that for historical fiction, the answer is always no. Under
    our system, nobody can sue when a dead person is defamed.

    Otherwise, the heirs of Gus Grissom would have sued the producers of
    The Right Stuff into the poorhouse.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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