COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A former South Carolina lawmaker is suing wire TV channels HBO and Showtime, claiming they promoted his low-budget humerous entertainment about Appalachia called "The Hills Have Thighs" usually to instead show a soft-core racy movie with the same title.
James "Bubba" Cromer pronounced the confusion defamed him and caused romantic distress, according to a authorised case filed Monday in Los Angeles. He accuses HBO and Showtime of loosening and is looking vague damages.
How the authorised movement came about is the own Hollywood story.
It proposed as Cromer and his father surfed the TV listings on Mar 1 as they waited for his mom to finish her overpass game. The Columbia counsel saw "The Hills Have Thighs" was set to have the radio entrance on The Movie Channel, that is owned by Showtime. He pronounced the inventory enclosed the outline of his movie and the names of the actors.
It was the initial Cromer had listened about it, but he had not long ago hired a bent representative to foster his work. And the 1:30 a.m. premiere was only hours away. So he called the expel of the film, his friends and family to discuss it them to set their digital recorders. He wrote to his some-more than 4,000 friends on Facebook: "The Hills Have Thighs is on The Movie Channel all month!!!"
Cromer pronounced he stayed up late even though he had to be in justice at 8:30 a.m. and in the South Carolina House a integrate of hours later, where he serves as celebration of the mass clerk. Before the movie came on, Cromer pronounced he listened a voiceover: "Bubba Cromer after tonight does it again with his second underline movie "The Hills Have Thighs." Deliverance in reverse."
"All my words," Cromer told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I got on my building and I crossed myself given that was a mental condition come true."
Then the allocated hour arrived, with a startling tract twist: "I saw a set of thighs and satisfied now that wasn"t my movie."
Instead of his "hysterical Appalachian comedy," it showed the movie destined by Jim Wynorski, a longtime cult the one preferred and executive of exploitation drive-in theatre with copiousness of skin and obscene turns on renouned movie titles, such as the "The Da Vinci Coed" and "The Witches of Breastwick."
The tract is flattering candid for the genre, according to the stream Showtime listing: "A organisation searches the dried for a blank crony but instead find a contingent of crazed, sex-starved mutant women."
Cromer pronounced he outlayed a long, excited night responding phone calls, e-mails and content messages. Some were from Cromer"s colleagues in the House, whom he had told to watch. Several rebuked him, asking if he had lost his mind and accusing him of annoying the chamber.
"It"s been the majority unfortunate and frightening thing that has happened to me," Cromer said.
Cromer pronounced the movie additionally showed after in the month with the wrong inventory on Cinemax, that is owned by HBO, though HBO disputes that.
HBO orator Jeff Cusson pronounced all references on Cinemax were to Wynorski"s film, not Cromer"s. Officials at Showtime didn"t rught away responded to a summary looking comment.
Cromer, a 46-year-old attorney, outlayed the initial integrate of years of his law career in Los Angeles with a essay representation underneath his arm, afterwards got homesick and came behind home to South Carolina. He was the initial eccentric inaugurated to the South Carolina House given Reconstruction. He stepped in reserve after eight years to turn the chamber"s celebration of the mass clerk.
But there was an additional eagerness he indispensable to scratch. So he done a illusory documentary called "The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story" and a year after he destined his second film, "The Hills Have Thighs," financing the movie himself.
The film"s Web site pronounced it is the story of the disappearance of "a internal hillbilly idol declared Daniel Boone Owen, who vanishes one night after a corn liquor-induced stupor." It pokes fun at Appalachian stereotypes, together with the advance of "limousine liberals" from outward the state.
Cromer has not oral with the makers of the 2010 version of "The Hills Have Thighs." He referred questions about because he didn"t sue the people concerned with the alternative movie to his lawyer, Patricia Millett, who didn"t rught away reply to a message.
A phone inventory for Wynorski was not rught away found and he did not rught away reply to messages left on his Facebook and MySpace pages.
The restlessness in Cromer"s voice was clear as he talked about the authorised case Tuesday.
"Associating my name with publishing is the last thing I would ever do," Cromer said. "That"s only nuts. I could caring less about marketing. I wish my name back."
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Cromer"s "The Hills Have Thighs" site: http://www.thehillshavethighs.com/
Showtime: http://www.sho.com/
HBO: http://www.hbo.com/
Jim Wynorski"s MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/jimwynorski
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