Posted on 10/05/2018 8:40:23 PM PDT by EdnaMode
After more than a year of fighting FX and Ryan Murphy over her depiction in Feud, Olivia de Havilland has kept her word and is taking her case to the Supreme Court.
“We must persevere and speak truth to power,” the 102-year-old two-time Oscar winner said Friday as her attorneys petitioned SCOTUS in the ongoing legal battle. “The fight is itself important to the principle of honesty, so much in need today in the face of deliberate public confusion for selfish agendas,” she added in a statement from her Paris home (read it in full here).
Having suffered a number of legal setbacks and defeats since filing her lawsuit in June 2017, — including the California Supreme Court’s decision in July not to review her case — de Havilland is seeking to have the nation’s highest court re-examine what jurisdictions in the Golden State have decided. “The Court of Appeal’s decision is a radical departure from traditional First Amendment precedent, and benefits no group other than those who seek to use the names and identities of others in untrue and salacious ‘historical dramas’ for their own profit,” said ,” said the actress’ attorney Suzelle Smith of Horwarth & Smith in Los Angeles.
“Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection from claims based on the victim’s statutory and common law causes of action for defamation and right of publicity, so as to justify dismissal at the pleading stage?” asks the petition filed today (read it here).
FX and producer Fox 21 TV did not respond to Deadline’s request for comment.
The Gone with the Wind actress asserts that FX, Murphy and Fox 21 TV never obtained nor even sought her permission to depict her or use her name in Feud: Bette & Joan, their eight-episode series about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis that aired last year. Among other issues, de Havilland’s lawsuit specifically targets the alleged backstage drama involving her depicted in Feud‘s “And the Winner Is …” episode about the 1963 Oscars.
Wow, at 102 years of age Olivia still has grit and spunk! Color me impressed.
She don’t look a day over eighty.
Olivia looks l=in much better shape.
the blood lesions on RBG’s hands... not long for this world.
not happy about that per se... just observant.
who will trump nominate to replace RGB? start it now because I don’t think we have till the end of this year... looking like RGB is getting ready to pass.
any day.
Whoever it is, will be accused of myriads of sexual peccadilloes. He or she might even be accused of spitting on the street, 36 years ago. /S
Are you sure those two dark splotches are not birthmarks?
If it’s not too personal, how do you come to know about blood lesions? If you don’t want to answer, it’s okay.
Olivia is High Maintenance, at the age of 101.
Woe be to the Comcast cable man who needs to make a housecall. Or the guy for Central Heating.
My guess is she’s a very picky customer.
At 102 she is still a fighter. Wow.
Hhmm...she on Coumadin? But, that picture was from a number of years ago, right?
:(
My picks would be Sykes, Pryor, Thapar, Barrett-in that order.
She lives in Paris, France. Don’t think she has Comcast. Last I heard she is an active church goer at the American Cathedral (Episcopal) in Paris.
They cancelled the series. The second season was supposed to be about UpChuck and Di.
Senile purpura is actually quite common and does not indicate imminent death.
I have it and I’m healthy as a horse right now.
My mom has had it for over ten years.
We very rarely take aspirin and neither one of us are on blood thinners.
Good for her. She’s earned that kind of living.
nothing private or personal here.
RGB just has routine hemorrhaging under the skin at the slightest provocation... like, “I must have hit my chin when I sneezed hard,”
which typical of end of the journey for all humans.
(she is probably on serous blood thinners too...)
in her apparent condition blood vessels are blowing out for almost no reason... just under the skin. I would be surprised if she makes it to the end of next year...
won’t that be a riot? if you think the lefties are whacked out now... wait till the court shifts to a guaranteed 30 year 7-2 split...
we are going to need lots and lots more jail space and body armor.
I might invest in both industries...
yes,
but God likes you.
and you can sit without falling asleep.
and posting here, you are likely not a baby killing lover...
RGB and YOU have nothing in common.
Olivia deHaviland was one of the earliest anti-Communists in Hollywood and recruited a young Ronald Reagan into the fight. She can be as high maintenance as she damn well pleases.
Thanks. Good observations.
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