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- From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Film-Video Distributor "Victimized" ;>
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 11:42:01 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 112
- Message-ID: <1dliq9INN7ol@gap.caltech.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu
- Summary: What goes around, comes around
- Keywords: Wizard, Hollywood, movie, video, distribution, expose
-
- >Subject: Re: Did Shapiro Glickenhaus really go under?
-
- >Magnus writes:
- >>>>> On 8 Nov 92 06:56:40 GMT, Richard M. Kaye
- (rkaye@netcom2.netcom.com) said:
-
- rkaye> I got the following about Shapiro Glickenhaus
- rkaye> Entertainment. Dammit, no wonder they stopped sending
- rkaye> me royalty checks. Anyone heard more about this?
- rkaye> -richard kaye
- rkaye>
- rkaye> [postal mail from Shapiro Glickenhaus]
- rkaye> Dear Friends and Co-Workers, [hah!]
- rkaye>
- rkaye> This is to announce the dissolution of Shapiro
- rkaye> Glickenhaus Entertainment
-
- >Uhm? Well, Mike - what's the story on this. Is it true?
- > -Magnus (Honk!)
-
- I seriously doubt that is from my esteamed business partner, because:
-
- RK is computer-illiterate
- RK can't type, anyway - he considers that "women's work" (I'm serious)
- RK would never say "dammit" (too nice, "f*****g" is his minimum epithet)
- RK would never print his name in small-case letters
- RK's middle initial wouldn't be "M", as his middle name is "Leon"
- RK never got any royalty checks from SGE (I think) - beyond a $30,000
- "Consultant's Fee" when he signed over our movie to his friends at
- SGE, without my contractually mandatory signature/approval
-
- So - this is not a little suspect.
-
- However, whoever posted this was rather cleverly alluding to a *very
- real story* which is just breaking loose in Tinsel Town:
-
- On Friday, November 6, 1992, an article appeared on the front page of
- the _Daily Variety_, reprinting parts of an SGE "press release":
-
- "SGE VICTIM OF HOAX" by Andy Marx
-
- To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of Shapiro Glickenhaus
- Entertainment have been greatly exaggerated.
-
- This is contrary to a press release mailed to media outlets earlier
- this week on company letterhead - complete with the signatures of
- company exex Leonard Shapiro, James Glickenhaus and Alan Solomon.
- Although the release appeared to be authentic, much of the statement's
- wording indicated this was someone's idea of a joke, albeit a twisted
- one.
- (continued on back page -- "SGE Victim of False Release")
-
- Reached at his office in New York, SGE Chairman Glickenhaus said,
- "It's completely untrue. The whole thing is under investigation
- by both civil and criminal authorities and the appropriate action
- will be taken."
-
- While Glickenhaus refused to speculate on who the culprit might be,
- some company employees believe it was a recently fired employee who
- had access to the executives' signatures and company stationery.
-
- After announcing the dissolution of the company, the bogus statement
- continued, "Words cannot adequately express the grief we feel, at
- having mismanaged the distribution of so much potentially lucrative
- product with our marketing gaffes, incompetent handling, repulsive
- advertising, dummy sub-licensing and triple bookkeeping."
-
- In announcing that SGE's library had been acquired by MCA/Universal,
- the statement continued, "All of your disturbing little lawsuits
- will be handled by MCA's attorneys with their usual reptilian sloth.
- We will soon move all accounting records from the secret storage
- room in our parking garage to a secured site, and then sack our
- loyal but naive office staff."
-
- (END of article)
-
- By the way - in case the name isn't familiar, SGE is the (alleged)
- distributor of BASKETCASE 1, BASKETCASE 2, FRANKENHOOKER, ZOMBIE
- NIGHTMARE, BERZERKER, MANIAC COP, SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS, MOB
- STORY, RED SCORPION, PINK CHIQUITAS ("Chiquatas", in SGE's ads), and
- (without my authorization and really out of place in this line-up)
- THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME
-
-
- >Dear Friends and Co-Workers,
- >This is to announce the dissolution of Shapiro Glickenhaus Ent
-
- These are the opening words from the actual "Press Release", or
- whatever was sent to me last week from an anonymous source. The
- whole page is pretty wild, and a little scuzzy in reference to the
- SGE execs' personal lives, plus details of their net worth. It's
- allegedly written by an SGE executive. It's definitely written by
- an SGE insider. One who has an even lower regard for SGE than I do.
- And a lower aim. >;>
-
- For legal reasons, I'd rather not re-post it here in the mj-group.
- (...Not that anyone would sue me - I'm "judgement-proof", financially
- and property-free, I don't even have a car anymore. ...Hmm...)
-
- If anyone else has (or has seen) a copy of this "Press Release",
- please let me know.
-
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-
- "Look - everything doesn't have to be on paper!
- Just sign it! We can work out all the details
- later! -- R. Kaye
-