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- <text id=91TT1291>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: Who Says We Have To Be Consistent?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Who Says We Have To Be Consistent?
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- <p>By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> When it comes to trademarks, a Hollywood studio is fending
- off lawyers with one hand and dialing them with the other. It
- seems the forthcoming MGM-Pathe buddy flick, Harley Davidson and
- the Marlboro Man, starring Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke, has
- the folks at Harley-Davidson and Philip Morris USA fretting
- about a dubious portrayal of two famous brand names. MGM-Pathe
- demurs, citing such precedents as Cadillac Man and The Coca-Cola
- Kid. But in New York City the studio is taking what appears to
- be the opposite side of the issue. MGM-Pathe is suing a gay and
- lesbian organization called the Pink Panthers, which patrols the
- streets to protect homosexual men and women from roving gangs
- of gay bashers. The Hollywood studio contends that the group's
- name and activities undermine the beloved public image of the
- bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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