04-12-2013, 05:48 PM | #31 |
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Lawyers can get in trouble for filing suits alleging that nothing illegal was done.
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I can understand her frustration. Women lose a lot of work in Hollywood after 40. But that isn't Amazon's fault, so the suit isn't reasonable.
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Makeup artists are geniuses. They can make teenagers look 90, and they can make 40 year olds look 20 (or like teenagers). They can certain make a 40 year old look 40. (Except, of course, that as the baby boomers get older, they don't want 40 year olds to look 40, they want 40 year olds to look 20. Which, BTW, this woman easily can.) The reason this womand can't get jobs acting is because she doesn't know the right people, and has no history of being in profitable movies. It's not nothing to do with being 40 and looking 30 (or looking 40, this is a golden age for older actresses looking for roles close to their actual age). And I'll bet that contract specifically requires her to provide accurate information, and specifically prohibits her from lying. So it was her who breached the contract first, then. |
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While I think the jury *probably* reached the right verdict here (although I don't know much about the case other than what I've read in the linked articles), it's less of an easy case than people are making it seem, due to the misleading "age discrimination" title as well as due to the fact that there is something like imdp-pro. If you hire an ad agency to run a promotion to help your restaurant and they add to the commercials information about health department citations your restaurant has received in the last couple of years, you can clearly bring an action against the agency for including the health department citations, even though they are publicly available. Similarly, if you hire a publicist and the publicist spreads damaging information about you, there has clearly been some kind of breach in this case, too. So I can see why Hoang might have thought that when she signed up for imdb pro (which states on their website: "Your IMDb page is your industry calling card. Put your best face forward.), that it might give her some control over what went on her page, like an ad would. Why pay otherwise? And what are you paying for? Presumably, those questions were answered at trial. But I had no idea that imdb was anything but an ad-supported database of movie information (not that I looked into it at all), so I do think it was kind of sailing close to the line. (Although it was never a million dollar line they were sailing close to...). |
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They're all over 40.
So you'd agree, then, that this woman's problem isn't that she's 40, it's that she's been an actor for, what, 20+ years, and never made it big? |
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She whined about not being a success, and the jury didn't sympathize. Welcome to Hollywood. |
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