Some Day Their Writs Will Come
From page 10 of Time Out, 29th November to 6th December 1989:
Some Day Their Writs Will Come
Brave folks in the production offices of the BBC2 TV series ‘Alexei Sayle’s Stuff’ these days. A few weeks ago the programme featured a sequence in which the demure and virginal Snow White was discovered warbling prettily by the side of a wishing well. Sayle, in Attila the Hun mode, rose from the well and cut short the performance by lopping off Ms White’s head. Or something like that… it all happened so quick officer. Now, it is widely known highly-litigious, trademarked-to-the-hilt Disney Corp does not take kindly to benign use of their characters, let alone gratuitous mutilation. The Beeb is confident that the ‘reconstruction’ of the cartoon movie scene was ‘not 100 per cent’ thus providing Sayle & Co with a get-out clause. Be that as it may, we won’t be surprised to read the headline ‘TV Comedian Mugged By Seven Dwarves’ in the next couple of weeks.
