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Fagen sues late Steely

Dan partner over

band's name, music

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is su- This image released by Amazon shows Rachel Brosnahan as Midge Maisel in "The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel."
ing the estate of his late band mate, Walter Becker, over Associated Press
Fagen's attorneys filed papers last week in Los Angeles 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' portrays
ownership of the band's name and music.

claiming that when Becker died in September, his estate
was obligated to honor an agreement between the men a marvelously funny woman
stipulating that if one should die or otherwise leave the
band, the other would buy back his "shares" in the group. By FRAZIER MOORE break in as a stand-up. be fought in gender equal-
Becker's representatives are calling the suit "unwarrant- AP Television Writer "Midge and I got to have ity," Borstein says. "Women
ed and frivolous." They said Monday that the 45-year-old NEW YORK (AP) — Midge this really lovely parallel are different from men,
agreement was not in effect when he died. Maisel has everything she journey," says Brosnahan. and that's never ever gon-
"In our view, Mr. Fagen is unfairly trying to deprive Walter's imagined as a New York "As she was learning how to na change. But the goal is
family of the fruits of their joint labors," the estate said in City woman in 1958: per- become a stand-up — how to learn how the two sides
a statement, adding that it had been working toward a fect husband, two cute kids to work a room, how to can communicate effec-
compromise with Fagen's lawyers. and a "classic six" apart- read an audience — I was tively, and coexist, and
Fagen's attorney Skip Miller said Monday that "the agree- ment on Riverside Drive. learning those things, too. share the power."
ment at the heart of the suit is as valid as the day it was Then, by chance, Midge There is a point in the sea- With Midge and Susie,
signed." scratches an itch she never son's next-to-last episode there's no kowtowing to
"Mr. Fagen believes Mr. Becker's estate is entitled to re- dreamed she had when when Midge has a 'tight 10 men. "It's very cool to see
ceive all normal royalties on the songs they wrote togeth- she unleashes her robust (minutes of comic mate- women on the same side,"
er," he said. "But this case is about the future of the band, comic sensibility on the rial).' When we shot that, for says Borstein, who likens
and we will vigorously defend the contract."q stage of a Greenwich Vil- the first time I felt like I was them to such classic TV
lage nightclub. really doing stand-up. I had gal-pals as Lucy and Ethel,
Bruce Springsteen By then, her family life is in a long time before then to Mary and Rhoda.
turmoil. All the better for learn."
"Female buddy relation-
extends his Broadway fueling her fledgling stand- The series is set a half-cen- ships are one of the great
up career, which is pushed tury ago, but it arrives with untapped wells in story-
concerts into June along by the gruff barmaid eerily unsought timeliness. telling," says Sherman-Pal-
who hires herself to be "It's a show about a woman ladino. "But the sad thing
Midge's manager. finding her voice, literally, about writing this sort of
By MARK KENNEDY This is the premise of "The when that wasn't expected women's empowerment
AP Entertainment Writer Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," a or encouraged," says Bros- story is when you wonder,
NEW YORK (AP) — The lush and delightful new nahan. "Midge is speaking 'Couldn't we have gotten
Boss isn't leaving Broad- comedy-drama from part- up and speaking out in a a LITTLE further along by this
way any time soon — he's ners Amy Sherman-Palla- way that was radical at point?'"
extended his stay again, dino ("Gilmore Girls") and that time, and also is radi-
this time until summer. Daniel Palladino ("Fam- cal in many ways today. Think of "Mrs. Maisel" as a
Bruce Springsteen said ily Guy"). Its eight-episode I think this show highlights female buddy comedy
Monday that his one- season premieres Wednes- how far we have come and with real-life trappings. "The
man show, "Springsteen day on Amazon Prime. how much has changed, series wasn't intended to
on Broadway," will extend but also how far we have be a sort of political piece,
a second time to June Midge is played by Rachel NOT come, and the battles but it's taken on an addi-
30. He had previously Brosnahan (previously seen we are still fighting today in tional layer of meaning,"
planned to end in Febru- in a polar-opposite role as so many different facets of she says, "thanks to events
ary. call girl Rachel Posner in womanhood." I wish didn't exist."
Springsteen performs 15 "House of Cards"). Midge Midge's manager, Susie Sherman-Palladino's father
songs during the show is lovable, outspoken and Myerson, is played by Alex was actor-comedian Don
and tells stories about unsinkable as she trades Borstein (seen on HBO's Sherman.
growing up. Tickets for her traditional life to crash "Getting On" and long "I grew up hearing the talk:
the show at the Walter This Oct. 12, 2017 photo shows the ultimate man's world, heard, as Lois Griffin, on 'When I worked (famed
Kerr Theatre have been the marquee for "Springsteen stand-up comedy. Fox's animated comedy Catskills resort) Grossing-
reselling for more than On Broadway" at the Walter The role required Brosna- "Family Guy"). er's...;' 'When I opened for
$1,000.q Kerr Theatre in New York. han, like her character, to "There's always a battle to Dinah Washington ...;' 'q
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