7:41AM Defamer Hollywood | Today’s LAT story chronicling how a lawsuit over the Mike White film
Year of the Dog filed by onetime pal Laura Kightlinger has irreversibly damaged their relationship is just the latest reminder that the soul-devouring entertainment industry eventually gobbles up even the strongest of Hollywood friendships, sparing not even the bonds between formerly struggling, Jack Black-adjacent writer/performers who self-identify as borderline obsessive animal lovers. At issue: Kightlinger claims that the crazy-cat-lady script she once gave to White was appropriated for his recently released crazy-dog-lady movie, an accusation that’s led to a breach of implied contract suit, waking nightmares, and nasty recriminations in the pages of their hometown paper.
Report the Times:
Now, the two don’t speak. “This was an old friend,” she said. “He knew how personal it was to me. He would laugh at things that I was doing [rescuing cats] … and then using it and made it feel like it was his experience.”
But White maintains that he based his film on his life – not hers.
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