Friday, December 12, 2003
 
Reality Check

OpinionJournal.com reports:
    ALL THAT JAZZ: In the film "Erin Brockovich," Julia Roberts played a working-class mom with a penchant for short skirts who, despite being constantly underestimated by men, ultimately manages to secure the largest class-action settlement in American history. But according to the Wellesley News, an all-female jazz band hired locally during the filming of Ms. Roberts's latest film has filed a gender discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the actress and her production company, saying that they were paid half what an all-male band was getting in the same film. As band member Jeanne Daly told the paper: "I find it amusing that we have to 'Erin Brockovitch' Erin Brockovitch for [the] hypocrisy of gender discrimination."
I find it amusing that the band member confuses Julia Roberts, the actress who portrayed a real litiguous activist in the movie Erin Brockovitch, with the title character and real person Erin Brockovitch. Since Jeanne Daly also confused proper noun 'Erin Brockovitch' with a verb, I'd say she's probably a confused individual.

 
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