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Uncle Miltie sues over use of photo
Milton Berle has sued Century 21 Concrete Estate Corp. and Lambda Publications, Inc. over an advertisement that uses a famous old photo of Mr. Television dressed as Carmen Miranda, complete with fruit headdress and makeup. The caption reads: “Our team of friendly professionals know how to cater to royalty … after all, every queen deserves a castle.”
The suit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, stems from the unauthorized use of Berle’s photo in the Spring/Summer 1998 edition of Lambda’s Out!, a resource manual for the gay community.
The advertisement was placed by Century 21, the nationwide real estate company. The complaint alleges violations of rights of publicity, the Lanham Act, unfair challenge and defamation.
The basis of the defamation claim is that “the depiction of Berle … would transmit to a reasonable person, that (Berle) was a homosexual.” According to the complaint, while the 91-year old Berle “respects the rights of others in the pursuit of their own individual sexual orientation, Berle is a heterosexual male and does not now, nor has he ever, eng
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Growing Up with Uncle Miltie is a new stage show written and performed by Patt Benson, directed by Richard Embardo, and playing Sundays Oct. 18-Nov. 22 at the Improv Comedy Lab Theatre in Los Angeles.
Berle was famous for his comedy and often cross-dressed as a gag.
Patt Benson met and befriended her show business idol, Milton Berle, the biggest star of TV in its early days. This is the story of the improbable, but special friendship between Berle and Benson. Encouraged by Berle, Benson pursued a being in comedy. Growing up with Uncle Miltie is a exhibit business memoir with a candid behind-the-scene look at the making of a successful professional comedian.
Actor/Comedian Patt Benson was born and raised in New York Town. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Milton Katselas. She met her comedy partner, Burt Heyman (who lives in Chicago now), in acting class and formed the successful comedy team of “Patt and Burt.” They played in clubs from Boston to Miami after appearing on The Merv Griffin Show. The team then joined the famed Second City improv group in Chicago. Patt arrived in LA in 1974 and started acting in commercials, sitcoms and doing stand up at comedy clu