{"id":40,"date":"2004-11-19T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/ripped_from_the_headlines.html"},"modified":"2004-11-19T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T00:02:11","slug":"ripped_from_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/ripped_from_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Ripped from the Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News reports that the (not) subject of Wednesday’s Law & Order<\/em> is threatening to sue the show<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Guardian Angel leader and radio host Curtis Sliwa, infuriated by the portrayal of a Sliwa-inspired character on “Law & Order,” said yesterday he may sue the popular NBC show.<\/p>\n

Sliwa’s character was played by Jose Zuniga as a hypocritical, philandering, self-righteous, publicity-seeking phony who sacrifices his principles for the lure of a satellite radio show.<\/p>\n

“As Seinfeld used to say, I was ‘bizarro’d’,” Sliwa groused yesterday. “This was a world where everything up was down. My character was so despicable that he deserved to get shot.”<\/p>\n

The “Law & Order” episode used as its springboard the shooting of Sliwa in 1992, allegedly on the orders of mob heir John A. (Junior) Gotti.<\/p>\n

At the end of the show, the Sliwa character declined to identify his assailants from the witness stand, seduced by the payoff of the satellite radio show.<\/p>\n

“That was the worst part,” said Sliwa. “Twelve years I’ve been waiting to get on the stand and finger those guys. That will be a highlight of my life.”<\/p>\n

After Sliwa was shot, there were rumors he arranged it to cover up an affair.<\/p>\n

While recent real-life government disclosures have since pinned the hit on Gotti, the TV show ran with the affair angle.<\/p>\n

Sliwa panned the show in an interview with the Daily News after watching the episode Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

He lashed out again on his WABC radio show yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

“The whole show was a massive disinformation effort by [‘Law & Order’ executive producer] Dick Wolf,” said Sliwa.<\/p>\n

Sliwa said he will consult “a phalanx of legal beagles and see what’s possible. This is a very popular show. It could follow me for a long time.”<\/p>\n

If he does sue, he can take a number. Brooklyn lawyer Ravi Batra just filed a $15 million defamation suit against “Law & Order,” saying it portrayed a character based on him as corrupt.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the program said yesterday, “‘Law & Order’ is fiction. It’s not anybody’s life story.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A “phalanx of legal beagles”? Now there’s an image . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News reports that the (not) subject of Wednesday’s Law & Order is threatening to sue the show: Guardian Angel leader and radio host Curtis Sliwa, infuriated by the portrayal of a Sliwa-inspired character on “Law & Order,” said yesterday he may sue the popular NBC show. Sliwa’s character was played by Jose Zuniga […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}