Hollywood Lies - And This Time It's Personal!

The Yuba Post is certainly no friend of Hollywood, that much has been well established over the years. But this time those fact-distorting knuckleheads have gone too far - this time they messed with Yuba.

Apparently, last week Warner Brothers - a family-run business that you'd think would have more sense than to mess with Yuba - released a film with the title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Now, we don't know much about these brothers, but the Warner family had better learn a little originality if they ever plan on succeeding in filmmaking. I mean, how did they ever come up with this one!?! Clearly, Harry Potter is a complete ripoff of Yuba's own Larry Potter, a chicken farmer who last August had his missing (and presumed dead) rooster miraculously walk out of a house fire. The next week, Larry claimed that this "phoenix" spoke to him and told him to move to the top of Mount Yuba and live there as a hermit and only communicate via the game telephone. This entire incident was well documented in the Yuba Post under the headline (you guessed it): Larry Potter and the Orders of the Phoenix.

COME ON!!!

The Yuba Post was never contacted prior to the making of this film, and we can only imagine the factual inaccuracies that must abound. The movie poster certainly doesn't instill much hope, as all of the characters (even the rooster) appear to be played by teenagers (Hollywood's idolization of youth continues!). Worse yet, Larry Potter was never compensated by Warner Brothers for the use of his story. When told about the film by the Yuba Post, he stated, as far as we could tell, "I lick Joe's books." The meaning of this phrase is not immediately clear, but it is possible that one of the Warner brothers may be named Joe.

Unfortunately, Larry Potter does not seem interested in filing a lawsuit. But there is something we can do: boycott the film! The people of Yuba should not support such unscrupulous practices.

So when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix flops and puts Warner Brother's out of business, maybe Hollywood will have finally learned its lesson about truth, accuracy and fair use. And La-La Land will certainly think twice about messing with Yuba again.