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Brokeback’ actor not happy, nor gay
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| 03-26-2006
| Daily Times
Posted on 03/25/2006 10:06:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
US actor Randy Quaid has sued the makers of Brokeback Mountain for 10 million dollars, claiming they hoodwinked him into accepting a low-ball salary for his role in the Oscar-winning movie. The star of Midnight Express and Independence Day claimed in his suit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday that producers falsely told him the movie would be a low-budget, art house film, with no prospect of making any money.
But Taiwanese director Ang Lees gay cowboy tale, that cost around 14 million dollars to make and stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, has become an Oscar-winning sensation, raking in 160 million dollars in global ticket sales. Quaid, who played tough sheep rancher Joe Aguirre, said that by Hollywood standards, a low-budget movie budget cost beteen 500,000 dollars and seven million dollars.
The suit also claims that producers were engaged in a movie laundering scheme designed to obtain the services of talent such as Randy Quaid on economically unfavorable art film terms. Focus Features did not immediately return calls for comment on the legal challenge over the film that won three Oscars including best director on March 5.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 10mizalotofsmackers; bugger; gotlowballed; midnightxprsswuzgay; oxgoring; reacharound
An actor getting screwed? I'm shocked, I tell ya.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Quaid should have suspected something when he learned the Lawyer handling the contract was named Ben Dover.
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:10:13 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sounds like he took it up the backside. Bugger.
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:16:15 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Pacifism is objectively pro-terrorist)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"low-ball"
HA HA
You kill me!
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:28:36 PM PST
by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Man walks up to a whorehouse and knocks on the door.
"who is it?"
"I'm lookin to get screwed" the man says.
"Slide twenty dollars under the door" So he does.
A long time laps.
He knocks again.
"who is it?"
"I said I'm looking to get screwed" he says.
"Again?"
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:32:27 PM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Well, it's stiff competition.
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:32:48 PM PST
by
jdm
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Quaid signed for the net not the gross didn't he?
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:33:52 PM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He sure took it in the rear.
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:35:38 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Geez, was he in that movie too?
I've lost all respect for Cousin Eddie
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posted on
03/25/2006 10:46:01 PM PST
by
Horatio Gates
(Islam is an exercise in fatality.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You would think this "low-budget film strikes it rich" thing happens enough that these actors - you know, the people who know so much about everything they're wannabe presidential advisors, at least on TV - would write contingency clauses in their contracts to cover such an eventuality. Well, I hope Quaid is also suing his agent and his contracts lawyer.
As for him not being gay, well ... there was that kiss. Didn't he expect to gain a label by playing a gay sheepboy? When it comes to the Quaid brothers, I'll stick with Dennis.
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posted on
03/25/2006 11:27:01 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Cattlemen around here remind everyone the guys in Bungstain Mountin' were sheep herders, not cowboys.
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posted on
03/25/2006 11:27:26 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All
So help me, God-- I swear, someday I will quit posting these graphics...
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posted on
03/26/2006 3:13:30 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
This pretty much explodes the myth that this movie was a big flop.
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posted on
03/26/2006 3:16:56 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He sould not have acted in the movie.
To: Horatio Gates
I didn't know Cousin Eddie was in "BM" either.
Shame on Cousin Eddie.
Best Male Perfomance in Oscar history! :)
"Save the neck for me Clark." Lol.
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posted on
03/26/2006 3:28:55 PM PST
by
MotleyGirl70
(Most cats are democrats - did you ever meet a creature with such an inborn sense of entitlement?)
To: backhoe
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posted on
03/28/2006 2:41:00 AM PST
by
E Rocc
To: E Rocc
Thanks- I may steal that graphic.
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posted on
03/28/2006 3:39:40 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
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