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unusual facts about fair comment



Public figure

For example, jokes about... Terry Rakolta an activist who spearheaded a boycott of the show Married With Children were fair comments... within the confines of her public conduct and protected by Ms. Rakolta's status as a "limited public figure".


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Pol Plançon

"The New York critic Huneker disliked his 'mincing gait' and complained of a 'lack of virility in his impersonations.' Whether this was fair comment or merely a Puritan critic's reaction to what was then hot gossip, is hard to know; it was widely rumoured that Plançon had been caught in his dressing room with the composer Herman Bemberg 'in flagrante delicto'." (See Michael Scott, The Record of Singing, published by Duckworth, London, 1978; page 84).