Oh,
perhaps you remember the saga of the hidden vegetable cookbooks?
Jessica Seinfeld came out with a book on secreting vegetables in your
kids' food, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food. This book bore remarkable similarities to a book that came out a month earlier, by Missy Chase Lapine, called The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals. When I posted about this scandal,
the publisher commented here and denied plagiarism played any part in
Seinfeld's book. Around the same time, Jerry Seinfeld went on Letterman
and echoed that denial, adding, "Now you know, having a career in show
business, one of the fun facts of
celebrity life is wackos will wait in the woodwork to pop out at
certain moments of your life to inject a little adrenaline into your
life experience." He also went on to comment on Missy Chase Lapine's
name, saying, "if you read history, many of the three-name people do
become assassins. Mark David Chapman. And you know, James Earl Ray. So
that's my concern." Those are the murderers of John Lennon and Martin
Luther King, Jr., by the way.
And that, folks, is why the Seinfelds are now being sued by Missy Chase Lapine
for slander and plagiarism. But you know what I think is one of the worst parts of this whole thing?
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