Lou Grant had Mary Tyler Mooregasms.
Posted on 02/02/2005 5:44:37 AM PST by presidio9
He's known for Yogi-isms, but Yogi Berra doesn't want to know from Yogasms. The Yankee legend has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Turner Broadcasting Systems for using his name in a "hurtful" advertisement for its "Sex and the City" reruns — an ad that "created a false image of [Berra] that is both contrary to his personality, lifestyle and character as well as abhorrent to him personally."
The ad, which appeared on numerous city buses and billboards and in magazines around the world, features what the suit calls a "rather provocative" photo of "Sex" star Kim Cattrall's promiscuous "Samantha" character and reads, "Yogasm: a) a type of yo-yo trick b) sex with Yogi Berra c) what Samantha has with a guy from yoga class."
It then urges readers to tune in to TBS for reruns of "Sex and the City."
But the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court says the superstation never asked the 79-year-old Hall of Famer for permission to use his name — and he wouldn't have given it if it had.
"Plaintiff is a married man and has children and grandchildren. He is a deeply religious man who has maintained and continues to maintain a moral lifestyle, and has a spotless reputation for integrity, decency and moral character," the suit says.
"The direct reference to the sexual act made in connection with Mr. Berra . . . engenders a moral taint that has damaged his otherwise spotless reputation."
Berra's lawyer, Lewis Smoley of Davidoff, Malito and Hutcher, said his client found out about the ad when his granddaughter saw the promo in a magazine, brought it to him and asked him about it.
"I'm told his reaction was very severe," Smoley said.
The suit, which was posted on thesmokinggun.com Web site, says the ad caused the
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What the HELL is wrong with these people?
GO YOGI!!!!!
"appeared on numerous city buses and billboards and in magazines around the world, features what the suit calls a "rather provocative" photo of "Sex" star Kim Cattrall's promiscuous "Samantha" character and reads, "Yogasm: a) a type of yo-yo trick b) sex with Yogi Berra c) what Samantha has with a guy from yoga class"
That IS ridiculous. Can't we go anywhere w/o exposing children to this licentious sex-crazed crap?
I can't blame Yogi and I'm all for him.
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
Lou Grant had Mary Tyler Mooregasms.
I sure hope he wins this. He certainly has a right to keep his name associated with decency and morals.
Has anyone seen Sex and the City? What is it all about? I was sitting on plane and ladies behind me were playing 20 Questions about that show, I thought they are some fools in the world or that is a good show. Honestly, I don't know besides the fact that the title is in poor tastes.
Judging by the type of people at work who watch it and talk about, I would say it's a very boring show --- I've never bothered to watch it -- but I don't have cable anyhow.
Did you read the article?
"Yogasm: a) a type of yo-yo trick b) sex with Yogi Berra"
The prime thing here is putting in his name w/o permission, as well as the fact it is in an embarrassing suggestion.
It's trashy. It's about 4 single best friends who live in the city/ dress really amazing and have lots of sex.
I watched it for the clothes.
http://www.tvtome.com/SexandtheCity/
Ann Coulter wrote a column about "Sex And The City" titled "Chicks With Dicks." It is a show written by gay urban men about their lifestyle with the parts played by women. It screwed up just about every single woman I knew in NY when it was on.
Yes there are a lot of fools! SEX AND THE CITY is a series about four Manhattan single women and their trails and tribulations with the opposite sex. Graphic, at least in the sense of the dialogue. The Samantha character has had more partners than any five men, combined.
My advice to the bus driver: If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Just think what they could do with Yogi's sidekick Boo Boo! Sorry....I thought it said Yogi Bear and not Yogi Berra.
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| I've always been curious to know if all of the yogi-isms are really attributable to Yogi Berra or if his name has been co-opted for the class of statements that includes "deja vu all over again." If it is the latter, that not all Yogi-isms come from Yogi, then he will have problems with the law suit (public figure, didn't sue everyone else, etc.) Is Yogi Berra the idiot-savant that is the common caricature or is he Yogi Berra, Super Genius? |
Not Yogi. Dan Cook of the San Antonio Express-Snooze.
Three single, 30-something gals supposedly looking for Mr. Right, but mostly just ending up in the sack with every guy they date, then letting their personal selfishness and/or the perceived sexual inadequacies of their partner du jour spoil the "relationship" (there's rarely any real relationship to begin with). Just about every sexual topic is touched on in every show - not worth posting here. Occassionally generates a snicker, but for the most part you aren't missing anything.
Indecisive people have EitherOrgasms.
There is a long -- and unfortunately just about dead -- tradition of baseball doubletalk. My grandfather, a onetime semi-pro player, could do an extemporaneous monologue on any subject worthy of the late, great Casey Stengel. He was often invited to speak at sports banquets, graduations, etc. and kept the audience in stitches. Yogi is the last of that line. For all I know, these are all his own lines, though maybe some were around before he used them.
Women "looking for a few good men", have Marinecorpgasms!
Tim Kazerinski (sp) was the BEST in that skit!!!
Kerry has flipflopisms.
Did Yogi Berra sue Hanna Barbera for mocking his name?
Whatever happenned to Tim Kazurinsky?
Yours truly made an appearance in the last season of "Sex in the City." I got paid for it too!
"The future aint what it used to be."
The Kim Cattrall character is a promiscuous slut who, if had as many stuck out of her as stuck into her, would resemble a pin cushion! The show is a revolting episodic prevarication of what healthy human relationships SHOULD be and parades itself as the "norm" of single female experiences in the 21st Century... It is as harmful, IMHO, as porn and, should any single woman parody similiar such lifestyles, they would no doubt spend much of their lives on the psychiatrist's couch!
That's nothing to be proud of.
The show never rose above its title, as far as I can tell.
Like Desparate Housewives, I can sit through about two minutes of it before the dialogue just loses me. I know a lot of stupid people, and none of them are that stupid.
Jennifer Capriati has Bjorn Borgasms.
Are you an actor by profession?
I love the show. It is hysterically funny and exaggerated for comic effect.
Nicely done. :)
Ditto
Management Consultant. At the time, however, I was working at Bodum on West 14th Street. They decided to film an episode at the shop and needed people to be working the cafe when Carrie and her Russian beau (played by Barishnakov (sp), who is in great shape for a guy in his 50s), so I was hired as an extra. Anyway, I don't have a speaking role, but you can see me behind the two characters in question as they are shopping in the store.
Hi Mel,I've seen the show a few times.It's actually entertaining if u can get past the premise.Liberal,liberated,white bread,self centered females in the big apple who for the life of em can't figure out why they can't find a decent man.Decent man=RICH,metro sexual,sensitive,wimp....
If the Ninth Circuit rules on this case, they are have a bigger problem than we thought.
I KNEW it had to be written by men. Only my guess was wrong--I thought it was middle-aged men writing about their fantasies about young women's behavior. Thanks for the information.
ROFL
The actual writers of the episodes themseves have names like Cindy Chupak, Amy Harris, Nicole Avril, Becky Hartman, and Jenny Bicks. There were some male writers, but they were outnumbered and were credited in fewer episodes. So ladies, you can't lay this one at the feet of men, gay or otherwise.
He also did commercial for some financial product in the past couple years along with that Texas Chinese basketball guy. Thus he has some ground to claim that he depends on his good name.
Those names of writers you listed could easily be pen names. One example is "Christopher Eric James" listed as co-writer of the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series "Battlestar Galactica" actually being original series creator Glen A. Larson.
Possible I guess, but it seems like you're reaching. You'd have to really want the writers of the show to be gay to start speculating that a writer named Cindy is really a pen name for a male writer, unless you had some probably cause to doubt the gender.
I'm actually not first hand familiar with the show -- never saw it --- but what kind of role did you have? (I'd really be far more impressed by someone showing up on 24 hours --- that's my kind of show)
BTW: I have never seen 24, Survivor, Big Brother, or American Idol. Not even one minute.
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