[Cyber Liberty]

Heh.

[Supernatural]

Friends...a very trashy show not worth watching. I saw it once for about five minutes, that was more than enough for me.

[Mr. Blonde]

I thought you had to proposition someone for it to consitute sexual harrassment.

[FoxInSocks]

The company has also warned that allowing Ms. Lyle to proceed with her case could put a strait-jacket on writers and dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

"I would never think that means some guy next to me is going to be drawing a woman's vagina and making jokes about it," Mr. Cummings said in court. He noted in his argument that nothing of that sort ever was displayed on the show.

Actually, I think there was an episode that alluded to that, when someone drew the "seven erogenous zones" on a pad of paper.

What if someone started making jokes about Cummings' name?

[jazusamo]

Hilarious. Can't stop the inappropriate shows on network TV but a writer could shoot the whole industry down.

[Clemenza]

LET BOYS BE BOYS!

So much of this sexual harassment BS had its roots in the Calipornia court system.

This isn't a case of being groped or threatened with being fired by the boss for not sleeping with him. This is a case of boys being boys and joking around. Men should not stop being men just because one uptight Women's Studies reject is offended.

If you can't take the heat, get your a-s back in the kitchen.

[Enchante]

"allowing Ms. Lyle to proceed with her case could put a strait-jacket on writers and dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV"

I say, A POX ON ALL OF THESE MORONS! On the one hand, Ms. Lyle should have no legal case at all, because no one but no one with even an ounce of brain matter should have thought that "writing" for a show of this kind is not going to involve all sorts of lurid banter and crude script ideas in the "writers' meetings".....she had to know what she was signing up for or else she is far too stupid to hold any paying job in this country..... otoh, only a moron would think that reining in the crude excesses of the Hollyweird/TV industry could "dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV"

[frankiep]

Ah yes, 'Friends' the most poorly written, and utterly predictable "sitcom" in recent memory.

Not that I think it was horrible, compared to almost every other sitcom, Friends was pretty good, which isn't saying very much.

[xp38]

So no one told you life was gonna be this way [four claps]...

[fr_freak]

Amaani Lyle, who contends that the profanity-riddled and sex-laden diatribes of "Friends" writers constituted sexual harassment.

Well, if she would just stay home with the kids and clean the house, she wouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing.

[peggybac]

This writer's assistant has a lot to learn, yet that won't be possible because I doubt she'll ever work in this business again. In a writer's meeting, every idea is tossed around and I mean every idea, with several drafts written before the final shooting script. Even though most working in entertainment are liberal, show business is the most Un-PC business I know. This lawsuit is ridiculous.

[Jim Noble]

dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV.

Feh.

[Casloy]

dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV

I think one can safely say that is absolutely impossible.