FLYNT VS FLYNTS
Dec. 10th, 2009 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Larry “Hustler” Flynt’s lawsuit against his two nephews – Jimmy Flynt Jr and Dustin Flynt – for trademark infringement is now underway.
Flynt claims the boys’ adult-film business (which they started with their severance cheques after he fired them for slacking) is trading off the Flynt name – which bugs him mainly because their videos aren’t up to the Flynt standard of quality. Which leads to such courtroom exchanges as this:
"I think there's a thin line. As a society we've come to accept what I like to refer to as 'vanilla sex,' " [Flynt] said. "But if you get too trashy, people get uncomfortable."
DeCarlo, the nephews' attorney, took issue with Flynt's assessment of the films as "trashy." He proceeded to show the jury an enlarged image of one of Larry Flynt's films, "Mason's Sluts."
"Is this less trashy or more trashy than my client's product?" DeCarlo asked.
"Your clients are focusing on the boob element, so to speak," Larry Flynt replied. "I just think that's sort of passé, and guys are moving past that."
DISCLAIMER: Team Def has never sampled the work of the Flynt brothers, so cannot comment on the quality of their product. That said, we’ve never really been a fan of Hustler’s gynecology aesthetic either.
On the other hand, Larry Flynt DID give us the Sarah Palin pr0n. And he fought for the right of all Americans to make fun of Jerry Falwell. So I have to give him credit for that.
What have you done for me lately,
This is dF
Flynt claims the boys’ adult-film business (which they started with their severance cheques after he fired them for slacking) is trading off the Flynt name – which bugs him mainly because their videos aren’t up to the Flynt standard of quality. Which leads to such courtroom exchanges as this:
"I think there's a thin line. As a society we've come to accept what I like to refer to as 'vanilla sex,' " [Flynt] said. "But if you get too trashy, people get uncomfortable."
DeCarlo, the nephews' attorney, took issue with Flynt's assessment of the films as "trashy." He proceeded to show the jury an enlarged image of one of Larry Flynt's films, "Mason's Sluts."
"Is this less trashy or more trashy than my client's product?" DeCarlo asked.
"Your clients are focusing on the boob element, so to speak," Larry Flynt replied. "I just think that's sort of passé, and guys are moving past that."
DISCLAIMER: Team Def has never sampled the work of the Flynt brothers, so cannot comment on the quality of their product. That said, we’ve never really been a fan of Hustler’s gynecology aesthetic either.
On the other hand, Larry Flynt DID give us the Sarah Palin pr0n. And he fought for the right of all Americans to make fun of Jerry Falwell. So I have to give him credit for that.
What have you done for me lately,
This is dF
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on 2009-12-11 03:17 am (UTC)Anyway, the local clubs have to pull out the "inemities" to compete (apparently, I don't know first hand) just to stay in business.
Protecting our freedoms...
on 2009-12-11 09:11 am (UTC)One day it will cause a fist fight, I just know it will. I almost said it to my dad, but I bit my tongue.