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Screwed Sisters

A Winnipeg band called the Wyrd Sisters is licking its wounds after the legal beating it took recently. According to a story on Pitchforkmedia.com, the band sued “pretty much everyone involved” in a scene in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie that featured Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and Radiohead members Phil Selway and Johnny Greenwood performing for Harry and friends at a school dance as an obviously fictional band called the Weird Sisters. (The scene also appears in J.K. Rowling’s novel.) At one point leading up to the legal proceedings, Warner Brothers apparently offered the real band’s co-founder a $50,000 settlement. She declined and will likely regret that decision for the rest of her life. “The Wyrd Sisters not only lost the court battle,” writes Kati Llewellyn (presumably no relation to People’s Court announcer and reporter Doug Llewellyn), “but have been ordered to pay $140,000 of Warner Brothers’ legal fees due to the ‘highly intrusive’ lawsuit and criticism of the judiciary involved in the legal battle.”

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