Hunt Family Lawsuit to Get the Full Media Treatment
Dallas media observers are in for a treat in the coming weeks. This Sunday, I’m told, the Morning News will do its big in-depth piece on the Hunt family lawsuit. The behind-the-scenes details of the lawsuit are fascinating, and the story is a complex one. Media observers (hereinafter MOs) will get to see how a daily paper tells the tale. About two weeks later, when the March issue of FrontBurner’s “print product” hits newsstands, MOs will get to see how a city magazine tackles the very same topic. The lawsuit is our cover story. THEN, a few weeks after that, MOs will get to see how a big-time national magazine does the story. My understanding is that Vanity Fair will run a piece on the Hunt lawsuit in its April issue. When all is writ and done, of course, you can count on FrontBurner to deliver insightful commentary (or the decimal equivalent) on the three treatments.
(Very off-topic postscript about the phrase “three treatments”: the old Sambuca in Deep Ellum used to have a 7-foot-6 doorman named Calvin Lane who was into kung fu. In a Q&A in the debut issue of The Met, Lane said of his overseas martial arts training: “Mostly, it taught you how to dismember a body and how to fight with chemicals. I could take aspirin and poison ivy, do the three treatments, put it on you, and boom!” Just FYI.)
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Calvin was astonishing to behold back in the day. Does anyone know what happened to him?
Anne, is your Google broken?
http://www.calvinlane.com/
Not to be confused with:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/123/367
Gosh, I just established a dial-up connection (love those animated shaking hands!) to get on AltaVista search to find out what the heck this Google thing is you’re talking about. Pretty impressive, Tim.
Seriously, isn’t this really a Hill Family lawsuit, not a Hunt Family lawsuit?
Dear Tim,
Don’t be a http://www.summerseve.com/Douche.aspx.
Thanks, Hotbot!
Sarah: Next, please ask the sun not to shine.
Eric:
Thanks for the link to the Met requiem. Those were good times.
Leadfoot, the plaintiff is named Albert Hunt Hill III. One of the defendants is named Albert Hunt Hill Jr. Another is named Tom Hunt. And the matter at stake is a trust set up by H.L. Hunt. That’s a lot of Hunts to call it a “Hill lawsuit.”
Maybe they are all just HUNTing for a HILL of beans.
The man used to put on a tinfoil hat and crawl around under his table. He also lived in a replica of Mount Vernon and kept, like, a thousand families going at the same time. To think there would be chaos years after his death!
Leadfoot, The two Albert Hills have a middle name of Galatin, not Hunt. While I think these two are descendants of the Hunts it seems to be a battle of greed between the two. I guess they want publicity and are dragging in the Hunt name to get the attention, which has worked.
Is this the same Al Hill III that sued the Coates estate over Rancho Guejito in SD? Anyone know what happened to that case? http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/columnone/la-me-rancho24may24,1,5236330.story?page=1
Gosh, Tim, you set me straight — so, from now on I’m just going to refer to Jane Goodall’s work as “the study of oversimplifying journalists.”
The Hill vs Coates case was dismissed by New York Superior Court judge Herman Cahn in January 2008. Look it up.
Al Hill III did not adequately make the case that Benjamin Coates wanted Hill to handle his estate.
I believe you mean January of 2007
Tim,
Did Vanity Fair ever run the article on the Hunt family lawsuit?