Knocked up, knocked off, knocked over…
Cats: CBC Radio, blogs, culture|The saga of Canada’s Paris Hilton of motherhood Mommy Blogger suing the maker of the movie Knocked Up is itself worthy of a movie, or a soap opera.
The Mommy Blogger wrote a chicklit book called Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother To Be about a media chick who gets knocked up after a party. Mommy Blogger says the Apatow film used her ideas and visuals without giving her credit.
The suit has launched an avalanche of speculation on her chances of success (slim to none according to an entertainment lawyer interviewed on CBC) and her motives (more interviews, more publicity, more books sold.)
Bloggers are feasting on Mommy Blogger whose literary and journalistic credentials aren’t exactly – how shall we shall put it? – sterling.
Reject the Koolaid has compiled a list of books that used the image of a martini glass and pacifier long before Mommy Blogger used it for her book. Apatow’s film uses this visual and this is cited in the suit.
And NineGramBrain is a hilarious parody of Mommy Blogger’s own blog Nine Pound Dictator. You get the distinct impression that the parody is penned by an insider from the Globe who knows Mommy Blogger’s work well – which makes it all the funnier.
All good fun, unless you’re a big fan of Mommy Blogger.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Gaaaa! Thanks for the plug ! I am famous, I am finally really really really famous!! And hot, as like always.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Wow! Nine Gram Brain on my blog! I’m humbled and I’m, I’m like famous!! Does this mean I’m hot too, like you Nine Gram?
June 8th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Yeah – who knows, but when I heard Mommyblogger complain that Apatow had ripped off her idea of the professional woman who gets drunk, has a one nighter, gets pregnant, I nearly fell down laughing. If she thinks she has had a unique experience, she needs her head read.
It has been around since at least Jan 1, 1959, which was the night I was drunkenly created – which I know explains much…
June 8th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Oh come now, tagbagger, you’re not that young are you?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
You are super-hot becasue you like me!!!!
June 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
No, Nine Gram, I love you! I, like, really do, ya know….
June 10th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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