The seven wonders of Knocked Up
Cats: blogs, culture|Because we in Canada so rarely enjoy a proper scandal célèbre, it seems only appropriate that we should give it all due attention when one arises. And so we return to the curious case of Mommy Blogger suing Judd Apatow for copyright infringement over the film Knocked Up.
It seems another Canadian author has waded into the fray, if only to mock the Mommy blogger’s suit against Apatow. Patricia Pearson, author of Playing House reckons she should sue Mommy Blogger for launching the suit. Why? Because Pearson’s book is also about a girl who gets knocked up at a party blah blah blah.
But Pearson’s tongue-in-cheek plea, which appeared in Sunday’s Toronto Star, sounds curiously like a post by the sharp-witted blogger Tearfree, of Reject the Koolaid who last week launched a contest on books published prior to Knocked Up about girls getting knocked up at parties.
It was here that a certain Deepthroat JaneDoe revealed that Pearson’s book was the same as both Knocked Ups. It was also in RTK’s blog that comments on plagiarism by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell were invoked last week, comments that were later used by Pearson in her Sunday Star piece. Hmmmmmm.
We haven’t had so much fun in Canada since Belinda left Peter….
June 11th, 2007 at 4:02 am
You gotta love the writer feud.
BTW, this dense American must ask: Who are Belinda and Peter?
June 11th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Both were politicians for the federal Conservatives. They started going out together. She was beautiful and glam. He thinks he’s cute but actually has rather simian features and the behaviour of neanderthal. On the eve of a dramatic vote in parliament, she crossed the floor and joined the Liberals, leaving him. The party lost the vote.
He’s a traitor slime ball.
She then left politics to work for her family-own multi-national. It was all such good fun.
And you don’t have to be dense not to know…but thnx for askin’
June 11th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Hey! Beth, how great to see you here!