Playwright/filmmaker Brian Flemming's been a busy guy lately; the co-author of "Bat Boy: The Musical" and founder of Sundance alternative Slumdance (see his blog here) is now taking on Gov. Schwarzengroper.
Flemming was incensed in particular at the Gov's legal maneuvers to keep Todd Bosley from making a bobble-head caricature of Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger lawyer Martin Singer argued that the bobble head infringed on Schwarzenegger's "publicity" rights.
"Yes, you read that right: Singer and Schwarzenegger feel that the California governor is the first politican in history to be immune from caricature," Flemming writes.
So Flemming took things into his own hands and published "Sue Me, A$$hole," daring the Guv's peeps to chase after him. The book's cover contains a widely-circulated naked picture of Schwarzenegger from his glory weight training days. Inside, the book contains the cease-and-desist letter from Singer to Bosley. Singer, believe it or not, says he even owns the copyright to that letter.
The small book is coming out from Flemming's Fair Use Press, an arm of his Slumdance festival.
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