August 9, 2003
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Jews in the News
LOS ANGELES (AP) Aug. 9 –Howard Stern has settled a lawsuit against the producers of the television series “Are You Hot? The Search for America’s Sexiest People,” which he claimed was based on an idea stolen from his radio show.
– AP-NY 08-09-03 1336 EDT
Stern was suing producer Mike Fleiss, cousin of Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss.
From the Daily News, 4/30/03:
In Emmy magazine, Mike Fleiss “cites Stern’s work as an influence on his own and says he was inspired to get into TV after seeing Stern’s series on WWOR/ Ch. 9. ‘It was so irreverent, so brilliant, so satirical,’ Fleiss says in the magazine. ‘That viewing experience changed my life. I knew where I needed to go.’ “
See also yesterday’s entry, Sewage.
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