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On the defensive after being accused of unfairly selling access to a website that contains "breakdowns" of TV and movie scripts, Frank Moran, Louise Yanofsky and Steven Rubin are heaping scorn on the position that breakdowns amount to trade secrets or constitute proprietary information. The three are being sued in New York by Breakdown Services, a company that gathers information about entertainment projects in development through casting directors. The defendants are alleged to have committed unfair competition and tortious interference and are attempting to fend off a motion for preliminary injunction that would stop them from providing third parties with

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The Ape Man returns in another rendition of Stills We Love.

As an aside, I still don’t think anyone has identified the hippo from last week’s installment.

This week, we return to the poor realm of ape men. I mean, just look at these three gentlemen undoubtedly slumming it:

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This is a rare shot of proper Englishman George Zucco as a neanderthal man who has just been unfrozen from a block of Arctic ice by scientists Lugosi and Carradine. Monogram studios provided low ebbs in all their careers, but the poverty row movies they made there still had a certain entertainment value. The trio went on to appear in the wacky Voodoo Man, but although Zucco receives third billing in this one, he’s only in one brief shot at the end. Apparently even Sam Katzman noticed how miscast he was in this part,...