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DAMAGES RULED OUT. In the lawsuit between GRUNER & JAHR USA, publisher of the now defunct Rosie magazine, and the publication's former editor, comedian ROSIE O'DONNELL. After two weeks of often scorching testimony, Judge Ira Gammerman, in a preliminary ruling, said neither party was entitled to damages and likened the legal face-off--in which Gruner & Jahr sued O'Donnell for $100 million for allegedly abandoning her namesake magazine, and O'Donnell countersued for $125 million--to a sandbox squabble...
...Donnell had a complex role to play when it was her turn to testify. She began jauntily, saying she had launched "a full-figured Rosie doll with thighs twice as big as Barbie's." Judge Ira Gammerman, who kept Woody Allen from getting too hilarious in a civil suit last year, and whom court watchers call the Director, admonished O'Donnell to "try not to editorialize...
Manhattan supreme court Judge Ira Gammerman holds a vaunted legal position, but what he really wants to do is direct--or so it seemed last week as he presided over a trial in which WOODY ALLEN is suing his former producer, Jean Doumanian, for $12 million he says he is owed for films they made together. At one point Gammerman interrupted Allen's rambling testimony, admonishing, "I'm the director here." When Allen mentioned the year he made his first movie, Gammerman jumped in with the name of the film (Take the Money and Run). Indeed, Allen's testimony would...
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