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Sonny Barger is suing HBO - says drama, called 1%, too closely resembles his own life story

Reply from: ZapRat
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 02:58
Sonny Barger is suing HBO - says drama, called 1%, too closely resembles his own life story

09:55 GMT, Monday, 21 April 2008
http :// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7358184.stm

Hells Angel sues over biker film

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Rolling Stones at Altamont
Barger was in charge of security at the Rolling Stones' disastrous
Altamont gig

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Hells Angels
Barger has written two memoirs of his time as a Hells Angel


Hells Angels veteran Sonny Barger is suing US TV company HBO over a
biker drama which he claims he helped to develop, says the Hollywood
Reporter.

In legal papers filed last week, he accuses producers of cutting him out
of the project after he demanded changes.

He also says the drama, called 1%, too closely resembles his own life story.

Mr Barger was the leader of the Hells Angels' chapter who organised
security at the Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont concert in 1969.

The free gig descended into chaos when his crew tried to control the
audience by beating them with pool cues.

One fan, who appeared to be pointing a gun at the stage, was fatally
stabbed by a Hells Angels member who was acquitted at trial.

Nickname

In his legal case, filed in Los Angeles, Mr Barger says he originally
sold his best-selling autobiography to 20th Century Fox for movie
development.

Fox then hired Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay for Robert
Altman's The Player, to work on the script.

Mr Barger claims he shared with Mr Tolkin a series of novels he had been
working on about a fictional motorcycle club, and the pair subsequently
pitched a series to HBO.

HBO subsequently turned to Mr Tolkin to create it, and "refused to
acknowledge" Mr Barger's contributions, court papers say.

Mr Barger was given the option of serving as a consulting producer on
the project but turned it down.

There was also talk of his appearing in the pilot in the potentially
recurring role of Chief, the oldest member of the Death Rangers, but the
casting never came about.

In his legal case, Mr Barger says that Chief is a "well-known nickname
or alias for Sonny Barger", and that the drama is set in Carefree,
Arizona - "which is the town adjacent to where Sonny Barger presently
resides".

He wants the court to declare the 1% script as a joint work of Sonny
Barger Productions and Tolkin, to forbid the sale or broadcast of the
programme, and to award damages for exploiting Barger's publicity rights.

The case comes as HBO prepares to shoot the pilot episode. According to
the Hollywood Reporter, the cast had motorcycle training last week, and
production is due to begin Friday.

It says the name of the Chief character, played by Hans Howes, has been
changed to Cap, and the setting of the show has been moved to Apache
Junction, Arizona.


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Reply from: ZapRat
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 04:39
Re: Sonny Barger is suing HBO - says drama, called 1%, too closely resembles his own life story

Hells Angel Barger sues HBO over biker drama

Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:55pm EDT
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Legendary Hell's Angel Ralph "Sonny" Barger talks to the media during a
news conference in Vienna September 3, 2003.
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PHOENIX (Reuters Life!) - Veteran Hells Angel Sonny Barger has sued
cable firm HBO alleging it cut him out of a biker drama he helped to
develop, Barger's attorney said on Monday.

Barger lodged the suit against HBO in federal court in Los Angeles last
week, saying it sidelined him from the pilot of a drama called "1%",
about a troubled Arizona motorcycle club.

The suit also named the executive producer and writer of the pilot,
Michael Tolkin, and his holding company, White Mountain Co, Barger's
attorney Fritz Clapp said.

"Basically, Michael Tolkin stole our show and sold it to HBO," Clapp
said in a telephone interview.

"Everything that he knows about motorcycle clubs he knows from Sonny
Barger," he added.

The term "1 percenter" was coined by the American Motorcycle Association
decades ago to describe the 1 percent of motorcycle riders that they
deemed troublemakers.

The pilot focused on a chapter of the fictional Death Rangers motorcycle
club in Arizona, and centered on a veteran member who is sent from
California to bring it under control.

In the complaint, Barger said he and Tolkin pitched HBO on a motorcycle
club-centered series, and HBO subsequently turned to Tolkin to create it.

After Barger objected to some of the elements in the pilot, HBO "refused
to acknowledge the contributions or authorship" of Barger and did not
seek permission to "use or publish the name, trademark, persona or
likeness of Sonny Barger for any purpose," the lawsuit suit said.

Barger, 69, is a founding member of the Hells Angels chapter in Oakland,
California, and is the most famous member of the club that turned 60
last month.

He moved to Arizona from California a decade ago. He now raises horses
and rides with the club's Cave Creek, Arizona, chapter.


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Reply from: Rick Begeman
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 04:57
Re: Sonny Barger is suing HBO - says drama, called 1%, too closely resembles his own life story

In article <4813E758.70306@newsguy,com >,
ZapRat <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote:

> Hells Angel Barger sues HBO over biker drama

BFD

FYYFF

--
Ryder Rick

Reply from: ZapRat
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 05:00
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

Hells Angel trades hogs for horses

BY JOSH MAX
Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00 AM
http :// www .nydailynews,com /autos/2008/04/08/2008-04-08 hells angel trades hogs for horses.html

http :// www .nydailynews,com /img/2008/04/07/amd ralph-barger.jpg
Sonny Barger


As patriarch of the Hells Angels, Sonny Barger is equal parts myth and
for-real living legend. But though the 70-year-old spends as much time
riding his horse as he once did on his motorcycles on his modest ranch
close to Phoenix and no longer holds any formal position in the club, he
has become the best-selling author of five books, including two novels.
His autobiography is due to be made into a movie later this year, he says.

He also rides with the local Cave Creek Charter in Arizona, clocking
25,000 miles a year, about half of what he used to ride.

"I wouldn't say I've mellowed, but I've changed with time," he says,
looking back on a lifetime spent first around motorcycles, and now
shared with horses. "Everybody does."

Barger was once suspended from school for slapping a teacher. He
enlisted in the U.S. Army at 16 after forging his birth certificate,
then was kicked out, but with an honorable discharge, in 1956 when his
deception was discovered. He was drawn to the oil-stained world of the
so-called "one-percenters" - a term coined by the American Motorcycle
Association to describe the tiny minority of bikers they deemed
troublemakers.

Trading his first motorcycle, an Indian, for a Harley-Davidson - widely
known as "hogs" for the firm's one-time pig mascot - he swiftly became
leader of the Hells Angels Oakland charter and oversaw the formation of
independent charters, or branches, across the U.S. and worldwide.

Their hell-raising activities shocked America in the 1960s, when, among
other exploits, Barger offered the services of club members to President
Lyndon B. Johnson as a "crack group of trained guerrillas" to drop
behind enemy lines in the Vietnam War. His offer was turned down flat.

In another notorious incident, he allegedly forced the Rolling Stones to
play at gunpoint in 1969 at Altamont Speedway, after the band had
threatened to pull the plug on a concert.

An FBI agent recently said in a documentary that bad blood from the
incident lingered for years, and the Hells Angels later plotted to kill
Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

"I have no recollection of it ever happening, and why it showed up 35
years later, I don't know," Barger says.

Now, with the Hells Angels turning 60 in an increasingly regulated
world, he sees less room for rugged American individualism.

"We're the last of the free Americans in the United States," he says.
"There's very few of us left."



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Reply from: Schmoe
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 17:09
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

"ZapRat" <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote in message

> Hells Angel trades hogs for horses
>
> BY JOSH MAX
> Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00 AM
> http :// www .nydailynews,com /autos/2008/04/08/2008-04-08 hells angel trades hogs for horses.html
>
> http :// www .nydailynews,com /img/2008/04/07/amd ralph-barger.jpg
> Sonny Barger


Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?


Reply from: dual45s
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 20:05
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses


"Schmoe" <s@s,net > wrote in message news:48149723$0$25020$607ed4bc@cv,net ...
> "ZapRat" <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote in message
>
>> Hells Angel trades hogs for horses
>>
>> BY JOSH MAX
>> Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00 AM
>> http :// www .nydailynews,com /autos/2008/04/08/2008-04-08_hells_angel_trades_hogs_for_horses.html
>>
>> http :// www .nydailynews,com /img/2008/04/07/amd_ralph-barger.jpg
>> Sonny Barger
>
>
> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?

If you are pulling our leg then fine. If you are trying to make some point,
then okay. If you are serious, forget it. You don't need to know if that is
the case.

--

Wayne
AH52
The road goes on forever



Reply from: Schmoe
Date: 28 Apr 2008, 02:00
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

"dual45s" <dual45s@tampabay.rr,com > wrote in message

>> "ZapRat" <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote in message
>>> Sonny Barger

> "Schmoe" <s@s,net > wrote
>> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?

> If you are pulling our leg then fine. If you are trying to make some
> point, then okay. If you are serious, forget it. You don't need to know if
> that is the case.


<rolling eyes> Was Harley the guy's 1st name? I've met a lot of guys and
dogs named Harley.


Reply from: Schmoe
Date: 28 Apr 2008, 03:04
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

"Schmoe" <s@s,net > wrote in message news:481513b3$0$25065$607ed4bc@cv,net ...
> "dual45s" <dual45s@tampabay.rr,com > wrote in message
>
>>> "ZapRat" <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote in message
>>>> Sonny Barger
>
>> "Schmoe" <s@s,net > wrote
>>> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?
>
>> If you are pulling our leg then fine. If you are trying to make some
>> point, then okay. If you are serious, forget it. You don't need to know
>> if that is the case.

> <rolling eyes> Was Harley the guy's 1st name? I've met a lot of guys and
> dogs named Harley.

<sarcasm mode off>

Forgot to add the <sfsf> for ya #52.


Reply from: Rick Begeman
Date: 27 Apr 2008, 23:05
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

In article <48149723$0$25020$607ed4bc@cv,net >, "Schmoe" <s@s,net >
wrote:

> "ZapRat" <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote in message
>
> > Hells Angel trades hogs for horses
> >
> > BY JOSH MAX
> > Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00 AM
> > http :// www .nydailynews,com /autos/2008/04/08/2008-04-08_hells_angel_trades_ho
> > gs_for_horses.html
> >
> > http :// www .nydailynews,com /img/2008/04/07/amd_ralph-barger.jpg
> > Sonny Barger
>
>
> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?

If I told you I'd have to kill you...

<sfsf>

--
Ryder Rick

Reply from: ZapRat
Date: 12 May 2008, 10:22
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

Schmoe wrote:

> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?

Is it the process of reading, or comprehension of the content, that is
your personal hurdle?



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Reply from: Old Crow
Date: 12 May 2008, 11:11
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

On Mon, 12 May 2008 03:22:49 -0500, ZapRat
<zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote:

>Schmoe wrote:
>
>> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?
>
>Is it the process of reading, or comprehension of the content, that is
>your personal hurdle?


No, we just don't give a shit about him...or you.
--
Old Crow
'82 FLTC(P)
'95 Wrangler YJ
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Reply from: Vito
Date: 12 May 2008, 16:00
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

"Old Crow" <walliscrow@yahoo,com > wrote
ZapRat <zapratRATZAPPER@newsguy,com > wrote:
>>Schmoe wrote:
>>
>>> Who is the Barger character you keep posting about?
>>
>>Is it the process of reading, or comprehension of the content, that is
>>your personal hurdle?
>
> No, we just don't give a shit about him...or you.
> --

Back in the '60s hippies began hanging on. We drink up their beer, ball
their women, smoke their dope then run them off. After Slippery Dick had
some shot they joined the establishment and became yuppies, all the while
hiding on the shitter from their old ladies and kids so they drool pore over
Easy Rider. Then they aged into RUBs, still hiding on the shitter. But then
one day, beginning in the early 1990s, they began noticing that their last
kid had graduated and the mortgage was paid, leaving them lotsa spending
power. Many jumped off the shitter and bought Harleys to fulfill their long
held dream and thot they had become bikers .... and in a way they did. Even
Doonsbury joked about the old biker getting kicked out of his club after 30
years 'cuz he couldn't afford the dues any more. Now you see smooth cheeked,
well groomed dudes in spanking clean colors. Guess the old ways got "RUBbed
out". Who's Barger? Dude prolly never heard of Wino Willy either. But he
can name the beatles ....



Reply from: Spunky Hussein Tuna
Date: 12 May 2008, 16:59
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

Vito wrote:

> Back in the '60s hippies began hanging on. We drink up their beer, ball
> their women, smoke their dope then run them off. After Slippery Dick had
> some shot they joined the establishment and became yuppies, all the while
> hiding on the shitter from their old ladies and kids so they drool pore over
> Easy Rider. Then they aged into RUBs, still hiding on the shitter. But then
> one day, beginning in the early 1990s, they began noticing that their last
> kid had graduated and the mortgage was paid, leaving them lotsa spending
> power. Many jumped off the shitter and bought Harleys to fulfill their long
> held dream and thot they had become bikers .... and in a way they did. Even
> Doonsbury joked about the old biker getting kicked out of his club after 30
> years 'cuz he couldn't afford the dues any more. Now you see smooth cheeked,
> well groomed dudes in spanking clean colors. Guess the old ways got "RUBbed
> out". Who's Barger? Dude prolly never heard of Wino Willy either. But he
> can name the beatles ....

Jesus Sneezing Christ you are full of shit.
--

Spunky Hussein Tuna
radical ChristoIslamic fundamentalist Pescasupremacist...
but not at all bitter

Reply from: Al
Date: 12 May 2008, 17:10
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

Spunky Hussein Tuna wrote:
> Vito wrote:
>
>> Back in the '60s hippies began hanging on. We drink up their beer,
>> ball their women, smoke their dope then run them off. After Slippery
>> Dick had some shot they joined the establishment and became yuppies,
>> all the while hiding on the shitter from their old ladies and kids so
>> they drool pore over Easy Rider. Then they aged into RUBs, still
>> hiding on the shitter. But then one day, beginning in the early
>> 1990s, they began noticing that their last kid had graduated and the
>> mortgage was paid, leaving them lotsa spending power. Many jumped off
>> the shitter and bought Harleys to fulfill their long held dream and
>> thot they had become bikers .... and in a way they did. Even
>> Doonsbury joked about the old biker getting kicked out of his club
>> after 30 years 'cuz he couldn't afford the dues any more. Now you see
>> smooth cheeked, well groomed dudes in spanking clean colors. Guess
>> the old ways got "RUBbed out". Who's Barger? Dude prolly never heard
>> of Wino Willy either. But he can name the beatles ....
>
> Jesus Sneezing Christ you are full of shit.

At first read, I thought maybe it was an excerpt from one of Barger's
Pullitzer prize winners, but alas - not enough spelling errors to be
Bargers.

--
BS205© DOF#FiftyTo G&W CVNS-FD#1-7®



Reply from: Vito
Date: 13 May 2008, 15:15
Re: Sonny Barger trades hogs for horses

"Spunky Hussein Tuna" <spunkyhusseintuna@earthlink,net > wrote
> Vito wrote:
>
>> Back in the '60s .....
>
> Jesus Sneezing Christ you are full of shit.

Response sounds a bit bitter to me. Did I get a tad too close to home
Spunk?




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