Tom Cruise’s Legal Options
Thanks to the good folks at Defamer, I was led to this fascinating legal rumination on Tom Cruise’s legal options regarding a recent episode of South Park, wherein a cartoon Cruise flees into a closet, inspiring cartoon friends and peers and ex-wives to beg Cruise to “please come out of the closet!”
Not only does the story shed fascinating light on the legality of parody/satire, it brings up a fascinating question: Is calling someone gay defamatory?
Check it out here.
I've been wondering if calling someone gay is defamatory myself. It seems to me to be obviously "No". However, Robbie Williams just won a big settlement with a British tabloid over that very topic. I read about it this week and wondered why on earth the tabloid would pay out when this very week gay folks started applying for partnership (marriage, in essence) certificates?