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Waitress
Jenna is a small-town waitress with a big dream. She wishes to use her incredible pie-making gift to win a local contest and use the prize money to escape her abusive husband, Earl. However, when she gets pregant with his baby, Jenna's plans for happiness seem to have taken a turn for the worst.
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'Expelled' Filmmakers Sued Over Lennon Song
As Ben Stein’s pro-intelligent design documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” soars into history as one of the most successful documentary films of all time, the producers of the film have found themselves threatened with a lawsuit – part of what they claim is the latest in a series of attacks against the film and the message it represents.
Last Wednesday, John Lennon’ sons and widow, Yoko Ono, filed suit against the producers of Expelled, claiming that they had illegally appropriated and made use of John Lennon’s hit song “Imagine.”
In the lawsuit, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s sons, and EMI Blackwood Music Inc are seeking both unspecified damages and a halt on all current screenings of the film using “Imagine.”
The producers of the film, however, have claimed legal protection under the fair use doctrine and said that the lawsuit was unfairly attacking and singling out the film because of its message challenging Darwinism.
“Based on the fair use doctrine, news commentators and film documentarians regularly use material in the same way we do in EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed,” the producers said in a statement.
“Unbiased viewers of the film will see that the ‘Imagine’ clip was used as part of a social commentary in the exercise of free speech. The brief clip – consisting of a mere 10 words – was used to contrast the messages in the documentary and was not used as an endorsement of EXPELLED,” the producers added.
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