{"id":532,"date":"2003-12-13T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:06:39","slug":"532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/13\/532\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpinionJournal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110004417\" target=\"new\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>ALL THAT JAZZ:<\/b> In the film &#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; 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&#8217;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: &#8220;I find it amusing that we have to &#8216;Erin Brockovitch&#8217; Erin Brockovitch for [the] hypocrisy of gender discrimination.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find it amusing that the band member confuses <b>Julia Roberts<\/b>, the actress who portrayed a real litiguous activist in the movie <i>Erin Brockovitch<\/i>, with the title character and real person <b>Erin Brockovitch<\/b>.  Since Jeanne Daly also confused proper noun &#8216;Erin Brockovitch&#8217; with a verb, I&#8217;d say she&#8217;s probably a confused individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpinionJournal.com reports: ALL THAT JAZZ: In the film &#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22241,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/22241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}