After Britney Spears canceled her interrogation meeting with K-Fed's legal team, head honcho attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, had this to say:
"I'm not mad – I can move forward with her or without her," he said outside the Wilshire restaurant in Santa Monica late Wednesday night. "But there will be a request to the court to address some kind of remedy to what I see as a willful non-appearance."
According to Kaplan, he discovered that Spears was going to be a no-show early Wednesday morning, moments after she was due to arrive to his office. The call came from her attorney who stated that his pop singing client couldn't make it due to a "medical condition."
However, Kaplan said, "...she was in fact out later that day and night. It's not fourth grade where you get a doctor's note and it's all OK. She was ordered to attend. And if there's a legitimate reason for her not to attend she would have to establish that."
Kaplan pointed out that this was the fourth deposition appointment Spears has missed. "This deposition was a court ordered proceeding. So it's a serious thing."
Next up, Nicole Kidman accepted "substantial" damages from Britain's Daily Telegraph on Friday for falsely reporting that she had breached the terms of her promotional contract for Chanel No. 5 perfume. The column claimed that Kidman was seen with a bottle of a rival scent while she was in London last month. Although this sounds like a silly thing, it's actually important for people to stand up to the press if false accusations are being printed. When that happens, the press is lying about their subject, which ultimately means they are lying to us.
Finally, the WGA filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke off talks illegally last week. The AMPTP responded by stating that this "baseless, desperate NLRB complaint is just the latest indication that the WGA's negotiating strategy has achieved nothing for working writers."