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Big Trouble
2002 · Film · 85 min
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
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Dave is awesome, I've been reading his stuff since I was a teenager. Books, articles, all of it. His book, Big Trouble, was turned into a movie starring Tim Allen. Although he only sometimes wrote about tech, he was much more clueful than most writers at the time, especially comedy writers.
It's too bad he's dead, despite his objections.
This confusion reminds me of a scene from the 2002 film of Dave Barry's "Big Trouble".
(Driving to an airport) "Okay, we gotta pick a road. Arrivals or departures? We're arriving, but then we're departing."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Big_Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjHHzZAUxbM&t=300
Another movie: Big Trouble, based on the novel of the same name by Dave Barry, with a big ensemble cast starring Tim Allen, Stanley Tucci, among others, was delayed getting to theaters, its marketing budget slashed, and its run in theaters shortened because of a prominent subplot about sneaking a bomb through airport security.
Interesting rant. So the author seems to completely "miss" the point of television and web based "news."
Priority #1: Get ratings, everything else is subservient to this. Priority #2: Make your advertisers happy. Priority #3: Inform the public.
Really, they are in that order. So if you're not working on #1 you're working on #2 and if you aren't working on that only then are you working on #3. Generally organizations stay away from making up news from whole cloth (as wonderfully lampooned in Dave Barry's "Big Trouble") but they 'film' to get stuff for someone's eyes to look at during the story, not necessarily to report on what is being filmed. Then they tell their story and some film editor goes and cuts in bits of video that 'look like' what the story is saying at the moment.
So the fact that they filmed a talk you gave can have nothing at all to do with the story they are writing. So complaining that they used footage of you doing one thing, while they talked about something else, well that is their right, you signed the release. Now if you had added a codicil which said "My only use my image when reporting on this talk about this topic." That would have prevented them from using your likeness in the story.
True story, had a friend at a sports bar when a film crew came in to pick up background video. After the fact they passed around releases for folks to sign, and my friend, being precise, added a clause like the above to his release. The station used the film on a story about sports and drinking and his face was a big blur :-) It was kind of hilarious but they take those things seriously.