"Scud Stud" Declares "War" on Tom Hanks

Posted Apr 25th 2008 10:42AM by TMZ Staff

Arthur Kent -- the "Scud Stud" from NBC -- is grasping at the last straws of his war-reporting glory, suing the makers of "Charlie Wilson's War" for using his voiceover in their footage of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The Canadian reporter wants Universal Studios to shell out unspecified damages for using a 1986 newscast he made about the former Soviet Union's war on Afghanistan.

Also hilarious -- Kent relives his glory days in Afghanistan in the suit, trumpeting how he put himself in the middle of the fray with the freedom fighters. Universal had no comment.

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1. This is breaking news? Who cares!!!!

Posted at 10:47AM on Apr 25th 2008 by vj-dj

2. Yawn. And if there is merit to the suit shouldn't he be going after his former employer?

Posted at 10:59AM on Apr 25th 2008 by Ken

3. HE'S A HANDSOME MAN , THAT'S FOR SURE ...........WOOHOOO................

JUST ONE NIGHT WITH HIM , HE WILL BE WANTING IT MORE .........LOL

Posted at 11:01AM on Apr 25th 2008 by HE'S A HANDSOME MAN , THAT'S FOR SURE .......YUMMM

4. Well, if CNN sold the tape to Universal Studios, doesn't the suit have a hell of a lot of merit? I mean, it is his voice?!

Posted at 11:12AM on Apr 25th 2008 by Dallas

5. What does this have to do with Tom Hanks? Did I miss something?

The Gossip Queen

Posted at 11:24AM on Apr 25th 2008 by gossipqueen

6. ...and are we forgetting that he actually DID put his life on the line when few cared to do so. How quickly we forget those who work to make our world safer. Derision at his lawsuit doesn't say anything about him but it says a lot about the silly twits who report it as something he should be ashamed of.

Posted at 11:25AM on Apr 25th 2008 by ellie

7. Who cares? What is he doing wrong by suing? They used his voice without paying him. TMZ is a load of crap.

Posted at 11:37AM on Apr 25th 2008 by Dee

8. I bet a little money will make his "boo boo" go away!

Posted at 11:41AM on Apr 25th 2008 by LuvUBritney

9. This is one of the few pieces of significant news i've ever seen on TMZ. This is a newscaster suing for the use of news that he produced. It's significant and will effect the use of newscasts in future portrayals of events which were reported by the media in the past.

The douche bag who left the first comment, complaining that this isn't "news", can go back to living vicariously through professional stalkers and jerking off six times a day to grainy pictures of celebrities on vacation.

Posted at 11:48AM on Apr 25th 2008 by Ed

10. Ed: You took the warts ride out of mine mouse !

Posted at 12:47PM on Apr 25th 2008 by Prince von Ahnhult

11. Arthur Kent did an incredible job reporting from Afghanistan. The person writing this article is obviously clueless. Kent is right for suing. Filmmakers have no right to simply steal the work of reporters for their own uses without compensation to the reporters.

Posted at 2:55PM on Apr 25th 2008 by bret

12. His lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, relies on international copyright laws, under which the original creator of a work must give permission for it to be used, even if it was sold to or created for a news outlet. Seems pretty straightforward to me. The producers should have got his permission and should have secured the rights before using the footage.

Posted at 3:10PM on Apr 25th 2008 by Robert

13. He made watching the Iraq war of 1990 tolerable..

Posted at 4:16PM on Apr 25th 2008 by Castroville

14. He's an amazing reporter, and a fighter-he took on NBC and won. I wish we'd see more of his reporting work here.

Posted at 4:26PM on Apr 25th 2008 by Hyde

15. Hyde, I will second that..................Scud Stud is someone I will NEVER forget watching!

Posted at 4:44PM on Apr 25th 2008 by Dallas

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