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"Your Worst Moment as a Lawyer?"

Schöner Ausschnitt aus einem Interview mit dem Mann hinter der neuen Großkanzlei-TV-Serie "The Deep End":

What was your worst moment as a lawyer?

I was doing a work-out on a single-picture film financing loan that had gone into default, and George Harrison was the executive producer of the movie. He had signed a personal guarantee back-stopping the indebtedness on the picture, and I had to enforce the guarantee. I believe he had been victimized by attendant circumstances, but I was repping a bank that wanted its money, so I had to get on the phone and demand it.

What happened?

I am a huge Beatles fan. Seriously. I am a ridiculously enthralled devotee of their music. I consider them to be both commercial artists and creative geniuses of the highest order. Now this might have been the transatlantic connection, but on that phone call that day, I distinctly remember George Harrison calling me an asshole.

I still have not recovered from this.

"The Deep End" ist bekanntlich bereits jetzt heftig umstritten wegen des angesichts der Krise "aus der Zeit gefallenen" Settings. Und wegen der viel zu hübschen Schauspieler. Um es mit unseren stilsicheren Freunden von Above the Law auszudrücken:

Are you freaking kidding me? The preview tells us that these four first-years were the only new hires out of a candidate pool of "thousands." You're telling me that the four chosen ones are also pretty? Bite me. The girl should be a twenty-something that looks forty-something. Her make-up should look like it was applied on the subway as she was rushing into work, and her hair should look like she has a comb in her purse that has never seen the light of day.

The guy should be slightly overweight, as pale as Vermont snow, and have some kind of subtle facial disorder. You know, something between a noticeable overbite and Bell's Palsy.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on January 24, 2010 (boomark / email).