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A federal judge in Mississippi has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Woody Allen's 2011 film "Midnight in Paris" improperly used one of William Faulkner's most famous lines.
Faulkner Literary Rights LLC sued Sony Pictures Classics Inc. in October in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., Faulkner’s hometown.
The lawsuit said a character in the movie took a line from Faulkner’s book, “Requiem for a Nun.”
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” Faulkner wrote in the book.
In the movie, actor Owen Wilson, says: “The past is not dead. Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. I met him too. I ran into him at a dinner party.”
U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills, himself the author of a book called “Twice Told Tombigbee Tales,” dismissed the lawsuit in a ruling Thursday.
“The court has viewed Woody Allen’s movie, ‘Midnight in Paris,’ read the book, ‘Requiem for a Nun,’ and is thankful that the parties did not ask the court to compare ‘The Sound and the Fury’ with ‘Sharknado,’” the judge wrote.
Collins writing prequel to Santangelo series
Jackie Collins' next "Lucky Santangelo" novel will cover the early years. St. Martin's Press announced Friday that Collins' "Confessions of a Wild Child" will come out in February 2014. The book is a prequel to her bestselling series. Lucky, the daughter of former gangster Gino Santangelo, is 15 and ready to break out from the protected world Gino has kept her in.
Collins introduced the Santangelos more than 30 years ago in “Chances.” The author has brought them back for seven more books, most recently the 2011 release “Goddess of Vengeance.” Two TV miniseries based on the series ran in the 1990s, with Nicollette Sheridan and Kim Delaney playing Lucky.
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