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I’d been wondering in an idle way what was going on with the New Line / Tolkien family lawsuit when I stumbled across this link to a good LA Times article on the situation (in an LA Times blog entry that also referenced this equally good article about “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”). I must watch out for Rachel Abramowitz’s stuff in the future. I particularly note the line at the end of the first article:

Still, I bet you Warner Bros. isn't treating " Harry Potter's" J.K. Rowling this way.

No, I bet they’re not. …Meanwhile, like many others, I sit around waiting with considerable interest to see what comes of the Warner Bros. et al vs. RDR et al lawsuit. (Kind of amazing how long that discussion over at the Leaky Lounge has been going on.) It’s been, cripes, since April since the case went quiet. Though the judge is apparently quite a busy man, and is (I’d guess) also making sure he has all the pertinent case law neatly stacked up before ruling.

(sigh) …Anyway, time to get back to this screenplay (after a pause for a grilled cheese sandwich). Another day’s work will see the first draft .PDF’d and in the email boxes of those who need to see it. But meanwhile the grilled cheese is a sop to all the fried / junk food I immediately get the desire to be eating when I’m doing script work. (Don’t even ask how many bags of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos I went through when I was rewriting Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King.) (aka Ring of the Nibelungs, aka Sword of Xanten ((I nearly typed “Sword of Camden” there. SUCH a different story)), aka forty other titles in ninety other markets. Hey, IMdB has a lot of the aliases. Not a complete list by any stretch of the imagination.) Oh sweet Goddess but could I not demolish a case of Wise Potato Chips around now.

(SIGH) I’m whinging; don’t mind me. (Note to self: investigate why American slang apparently does not contain the word “whinging”. Investigate etymology of word. Investigate why there are no potato chips in the house.)