SIDE SHOW – Graham Atkins Solicitor

DON’T GIVE UP ON HIM, BABY: It has been a rough 22 years for David Soul. His acting career peaked as the “Hutch” part of Starksy and Hutch from 1975-79.

The most notable result of his singing career was Don’t Give Up On Us, a song that often makes compilation albums called Most Annoying Ballads of the Late 20th Century. There were the requisite battles with “personal demons.”

And he most recently spent time in a London court suing a newspaper critic for calling a Soul-starring play the worst thing he had seen in the West End, even though he hadn’t actually seen it.

Soul, 58, sued Matthew Wright of the Mirror for libel over a review of the 1998 play The Dead Monkey.

Soul’s lawyer, Graham Atkins, told the High Court that Wright sent a freelance journalist to see the play for him, and the review contained several factual errors, the Associated Press and Reuters reported.

Soul on Tuesday was awarded $29,000 in damages plus legal costs, which the newspaper estimated at $215,000.

Wright’s lawyer, Mark Bateman, said his client apologized for the inaccuracies. He told Reuters that Wright, now a TV personality, had a habit of writing in the first person even when someone else supplied the information but “maintains he is entitled to express an opinion on the subject matter of a play without himself having seen it.”

MUSIC TRIVIA: Only one male artist has hit No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart this year all by himself. And he has done it twice. Usher has made it to the top with U Remind Me and this week with U Got It Bad.

He won’t be No. 1 on any list of most creative song titles, but that’s beside the point.

BLUE-COLLAR HUMOR: Working-class sitcom dads are twice as likely to be portrayed as fools than upper-class ones, according to a University of Massachusetts researcher. And they are twice as likely to be the butt of jokes.

Erica Scharrer, an assistant professor of communication, examined post-1950 sitcoms that ran for at least five seasons or ranked in the top 25 in one of the years they aired. Read more—>>>>>

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