Jewish for the Jokes

by matt at 6:00 am on May 19th, 2009 in General

Alvy Singer: Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

For $5 Million, Woody Allen Drops Lawsuit vs. American Apparel – NYTimes.com

Annie Hall,” the Oscar-winning film directed by Woody Allen, earned the director $5 million on Monday morning, and it was not from DVD sales.

The money came from a settlement in a lawsuit Mr. Allen brought against American Apparel, the clothing company, for using an image from the film without permission on billboards in the spring of 2007. The settlement, which was announced by both parties on the steps of the federal courthouse in Manhattan, came as a jury trial was set to start.
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Dov Charney, American Apparel’s chief executive, contended that the image, which depicted Mr. Allen dressed as a Hasidic Jew in a scene from the 1977 film, was fair game because it was intended as parody, which is protected by the First Amendment.

Charney got off light. The billboard in question:

woody_annie

Annie Hall: You’re what Grammy Hall would call a real Jew.
Alvy Singer: Oh. Thank you.

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