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| jetersahomo |
This is great.
Evel Knievel sues Kanye West over video
MITCH STACY
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. - Evel Knievel has sued Kanye West, taking issue with a music video in which the rapper takes on the persona of "Evel Kanyevel" and tries to jump a rocket-powered motorcycle over a canyon.
Knievel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Tampa on Monday claiming infringement on his trademark name and likeness. He also claims the "vulgar and offensive" images depicted in the video damage his reputation.
"That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever seen in my life, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public," the 68-year-old daredevil said Tuesday.
A spokesman for West said the 28-year-old rapper no comment. The lawsuit seeks damages and to halt distribution of the video.
In the video for "Touch the Sky," released earlier this year, West dons the familiar Knievel star-studded jumpsuit and jumps a canyon in a vehicle "visually indistinguishable" from the one used by Knievel in his failed attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974, the lawsuit said.
The video, which features Pamela Anderson as West's girlfriend, contains "vulgar and offensive sexual images, language and conduct involving `Evel Kanyevel' and women apparently trying to gain his sexual interest," according to the lawsuit.
"The guy just went too far using me to promote his filth to the world," said Knievel, who lives in Clearwater and has been in poor health in recent years. "I'm not in any way that kind of a person."
The lawsuit also names Roc-A-Fella Records, video director Chris Milk and AOL for distributing it.
West was so disappointed at not winning best video for "Touch the Sky" at the MTV Europe Music Awards last month that he crashed the stage when it was presented to Justice and Simian for "We Are Your Friends."
In a tirade riddled with expletives, West said he should have won the prize because it "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons."
Knievel failed spectacularly in the 1974 jump. He was secured inside the cockpit and the Sky-Cycle was fired up. But his parachute opened just as he cleared the ramp. After soaring about 1,000 feet, he wound up landing about 20 feet from the river on the rocky south bank. He sustained only scrapes and bruises.
In the video, West's vehicle crashes to the bottom of the canyon in flames. |
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| VikingDanForman |
 Who am I speaking with? |
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| RodStroker |
| yeah iv'e got caller i.d |
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| ajf5150 |
| Good and as punishment, they should throw that suburban raised, silver-spooned, phoney thug ass, over-hyped, no-talent, racist---(yes, Kanye West is all of these things, like the second-coming of Puff Daddy, only its worse this time around) into the Grand Canyon to see if he survives the drop. Kanye may have made an assumption when he said that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and I cannot speak for the President, but I know where I stand on the subject of greedy, money-hungry, welfare check seeking, looters that didn't heed the warnings or follow the orders to leave New Orleans....it's a shame that the tides weren't stronger to take them back to Africa. Then they wouldn't have to complain about how bad it is here in the United States. |
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| Sage |
Quote:
Knievel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Tampa on Monday claiming infringement on his trademark name and likeness. He also claims the "vulgar and offensive" images depicted in the video damage his reputation.
"The guy just went too far using me to promote his filth to the world," said Knievel, who lives in Clearwater and has been in poor health in recent years. "I'm not in any way that kind of a person." |
Not that I like West but Knievel did enough to damage his own reputation.
1953:
Hustles in bars as a professional arm wrestler.
Worked as pit face worker in copper mine.
Arrested for kidnapping his future wife Linda.
Arrested for stealing hubcaps.
The name Evil Knievel is born. A prison guard jokes that he has local gangster "Awful Knofeel and "Evil Knievel the hub cap thief in the same cell. The name was later legally changed to Evel to avoid upsetting religious fans.
Stint in the army.
1962:
Salesman for Combined Insurance Company for America. Held record for most polices sold in one week. Left when it was discovered most were sold to inmates at a local mental asylum.
1964:
Crime spree across America with bank robbing gang. worked as their safe cracker. One member of team was caught and sentenced to 15 years.
1977:
Evel batters publicist Sheldon Saltman with a baseball bat. Evel said stories of drug use in a book Saltman wrote are lies. "I broke his arms so he couldn't write anymore lies. I should have killed him," Evel said. Evel serves just six months of three years. The arrest ruins his image as the All American hero forever.
Evel vanishes from public life with a bottle of beer in his hand.
Source:http://www.the-vu.com/Evel.htm |
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| gator84 |
You forgot the domestic batteries over the last few years.
Strike that. The charges were never pressed. |
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| Shiftwideopen |
Quote: Originally posted by jetersahomo
"That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever seen in my life, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public," the 68-year-old daredevil said Tuesday.
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Evel is awesome, that quote is gold. |
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| redryder24 |
Just found this on Myspace Bulletins
Cowhead
Date: Dec 13, 2006 7:50 PM
Subject Evel Tomorrow
Body: Just added to tomorrow's show....the world's most famous daredevil Evel Kneivel joins the Cowhead Show to talk about his lawsuit against Kanye West. |
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