Lisa Kudrow's income from the megahit comedy Friends was discussed in detail Thursday when the actress took the stand in her long-running legal battle against her former manager.
The Friends star has been fighting in court with Scott Howard, who first entered into an oral agreement to represent Kudrow in 1991 and claims he is owed 5 percent of her earnings after he parted ways with the actress in 2007. Howard sued in 2008 and the case has been winding through various courts.
Dressed in a black trouser suit, Kudrow took the stand for about two hours in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica.
Nothing particularly tabloid-y going on here.
Reads like a garden variety, everyday adventure in that labyrinth of legal la la oxymoronically referred to as our judicial system.
There is, though, flickering in the light amongst the he says and she says, just the slightest glimmer of something very profound.
And once you recognize it, the glimmer becomes pretty glaring.
Re-read the first six words of the third paragraph.
In a society that has seen women evolve from third class citizen to second class citizen to, ostensibly, equal in, at least, the eyes of the law, a society that denied them the right to vote until well after the electric light and telephone were invented, a society where women, although, as yet, have still not yet acquired the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, but have achieved seats in state houses and Congress and Presidential cabinets and the Supreme Court...in a society where women are powerful CEO's of multi billion dollar corporations.....
It's still instinctive second nature to report on the fashion choices a woman makes when she appears in court.
Pretend, for a moment, that, rather than Lisa Kudrow, the defendant in this case was, say, Matthew Perry.
Can you imagine any circumstance (with the exception of Perez Hilton) in which the last graph would have read....
" Nattily attired in a fetching Dockers/sport coat ensemble, Perry took the stand for about two hours....."
Old Virginia Slims cigarette advertising slogan....
"you've come a long, long way, baby...."
Suggested updated addendum....
"....and you've got a long, long way to go...."
The obvious point of all this is that, for all of the progress that women have made in society, old habits die very, very hard.
The proof being that it seems to matter what Lisa Kudrow wore to court.
When it actually shouldn't.
Because it doesn't.
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