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World's most punchable face? H & H Photographers via NYT |
I promise you you will not read a more embarrassing story this week than this one in the NYT Years Later, Lawsuit Seeks to Recreate a Wedding, unless you're Hermain Cain reading back transcripts of things you have actually said in the media with you own mouth.
It's the story of one Mr. Todd J. Remis, who totally would be named Todd, and his lovely Latvian bride Milena Grzibovska, who I'm just gonna go out on a limb and assume is gorgeous based on her vowelly-name alone, and their day of wedded bliss. Remis, an equity research analyst, which, of course he was, hired a photographer in New York City to memorialize his nuptials. When he got the photos back he was distraught to learn that they had somehow missed the last 15 minutes of the ceremony, including the last dance and the bouquet toss, which no man could understandably live the rest of of his life without having the ability to look at once or twice every five years or so when he remembers they exist. The video he had contracted the studio to shoot was also two hours long instead of the six they agreed upon. Imagine watching a six hour film of anything, even your own wedding? Has anyone ever done that?
Naturally, Remis decided to sue the photographers, as one does when you have a pinched up shitty looking face like his, and work in an imaginary job field like that in New York. He's suing for the $4,100 price tag, as well as, obviously, $48,000 to fly everyone in the wedding back so they can restage the shots. Hey, maybe he is just really in love with his wife, and trying to recapture that magic moment, right? Who wouldn't do that? It gets worse though. So, so, so much worse. The wedding, you see, was in 2003. And they're not even together anymore. "Re-enacting the wedding may pose a particular challenge, the studio pointed out, because the couple divorced and the bride is believed to have moved back to her native Latvia."
A little info on the photography studio in question:
One of the two founders, Curt Fried, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna in September 1939 as a 15-year-old and was drafted into the United States Army, where he learned to shoot pictures assisting cameramen along the legendary Burma Road supply line to China during World War II. Mr. Fried recalled that in the late 1940s, Arthur Fellig, the celebrated street photographer known as Weegee, twice sought work at the studio when he needed money, but was turned down because he did not own a suit.
"I ran for my life from the fucking Nazis, then turned around and fought for this country, but this is the single most absurd thing I have ever seen in all my eighty plus years," Fried didn't say, but probably thought.
“I need to have the wedding recreated exactly as it was so that the remaining 15 percent of the wedding that was not shot can be shot,” Remis said.
Mr. Fried, now 87, chuckles at this idea: “He wants to fly his ex-wife back and he doesn’t even know where she lives.”...
“It was unfortunate in its circumstances,” Remis said, “but we are very much happy with the wedding event and we would like to have it documented for eternity, for us and our families.”
The costs of defending the lawsuit have already reached $50,000 the Fried family says. Remis' father, by the way -- sorry, his daddy -- is a big time partner at Goodwin Procter, which will come to the surprise of absolutely zero people who have read this story.
Kind of a lot of hassle to go through to be able to tell hypothetical people who won't care anyway that you totally banged this one hot Eastern European chick one time, Remis, but whatever makes you happy, I guess. I have a feeling the answer to that might actually be "nothing" though.
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12 comments:
oh let's spread this shit...
It was from the NYT, so, you know, already quite read, but please do.
you know he's shed some tears (pussy) when he saw the story
hehe. probably thinking about who else he can sue.
I suppose it's kind of tragic actually. Guy probably just wants his wife back. "/ Now I feel bad for him.
Think I really might have switched over to being depressed about this rather than angry. :/
That woman totally looks like the women on those "real housewives of .." series.
hot eastern europeans are a dime a dozen. someone should just bring him to greenpoint. he'd be over that bride right quick. he'd still be a dick though. #can'twinethemall
The ex-wife is the one in the middle so we'll need to have some cosmetic surgery done to recreate the special moment:
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13717/wm/pd2592017.jpg
This guy is a douche, but it's totally a function of what a wife can do to you. She blames the photo screw up on him, and he's deferring it with the lawsuit. The most he's rightly due is a percentage of the $4,100, not the consequential damages.
Bitches can fuck a nigga up.
The photog using the Holocaust Card?????? Tell him to do what he was supposed to do and shut the fuck up. I'm sick of people getting screwed by sham photogs who had a contractual agreement that the photog himself fucked up. Remis should sue for more because the photog douche played the Nazi Card.
True, but I think it's alot different to play the Nazi card if you ran for your life from them/fought them.
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