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Monday, February 10th, 2003 03:18 pmIn the desperate hunt for all the news unfit to print, I was looking for more info on the Dobby/Putin case (in which the Russians claim that Dobby the House Elf is modelled on Vladimir Putin: 54% of voters on Children's BBC site agree ...) and found this on CNN:
"Dobby [the House Elf, in <>i>Chamber of Secrets ... bears a significant resemblance to the partially computer-generated character Gollum, a.k.a. Smeagol, in the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
And Smeagol, in turn, has been compared by The New Yorker's Anthony Lane to "Ross Perot after ten years on the Atkins diet." And that leads, by the principle of transitivity, to another comparison: Dobby, too, bears more than a passing resemblance to Ross Perot – and actually, come to think of it, to our Commander-in-Chief.
Could it possibly be the case, then, that Ross Perot, Putin, and George W. Bush all have "right of publicity" claims against the hapless Dobby?"
Stuff the war. Bring the silly season forward. (It made me laugh!)
"Dobby [the House Elf, in <>i>Chamber of Secrets ... bears a significant resemblance to the partially computer-generated character Gollum, a.k.a. Smeagol, in the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
And Smeagol, in turn, has been compared by The New Yorker's Anthony Lane to "Ross Perot after ten years on the Atkins diet." And that leads, by the principle of transitivity, to another comparison: Dobby, too, bears more than a passing resemblance to Ross Perot – and actually, come to think of it, to our Commander-in-Chief.
Could it possibly be the case, then, that Ross Perot, Putin, and George W. Bush all have "right of publicity" claims against the hapless Dobby?"
Stuff the war. Bring the silly season forward. (It made me laugh!)
