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To: Janice Shell who wrote (1035)	5/1/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

I personally feel that they have to prove the MO and I believe you like me are out to show people just how stupid they really are. Innuendoes and all this character assassinating just doenot hold up in court. Look at Howard Stern and Springer, they get away murder! I believe this that you did is successful tactic for people to do the DD and NOT believe everything you read. Did you make a profit? Did you receive any money? GB

To: Janice Shell who wrote (1035)	5/1/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

What you don't understand is that Orson Welles was indeed sued, and spent the remainder of his life in the courts and in solitary confinement. Here is a rare picture of him, tied to a chair in his cell with a thick green restraint collar around his neck, smoking the last cigar they allowed him before they... well, you don't want to know the rest. c-fx.com Oh, and they stole all of his material as well. His original concepts for "Citizen Keene" and "The Second Man" were ruthlessly ripped off, changed, and made into movies, something he never wanted to do. He did script one movie in his jail cell, "F for F... you M...," which was smuggled out of prison and, alas, also changed to "F for Fake," which became a 1973 cult movie of sorts.