All posts containing the tag: "wheelchair"
Posted Jul 15th 2009 1:43AM by TMZ Staff
Two physically disabled people are suing "Dancing with the Stars," claiming the show's studio is so disabled-unfriendly a cameraman threatened to run over a service dog.
Robert Carr and Arnie Pike claim in a new lawsuit they went to CBS Television City in L.A. last March to watch the show. Carr is a double amputee who is confined to a wheelchair. Arnie Pike is a quadriplegic who also requires a wheelchair.
The men claim they arrived with two companions and a service dog and were forced to watch as the majority of the audience was let in ahead of them.
The suit claims the studio has no "designated accessible seating for persons with disabilities." They claim the staff has "a policy of placing disabled persons where they cannot be seen by the camera or the public."
According to the suit, Pike was placed behind several rows of seats where he could not even see the action on the stage. The worst slight of all -- allegedly -- "his service dog was placed in the aisle where the camera man threatened to run over the dog."
The suit -- which also lists CBS as a defendant -- claims "Dancing" violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and asks for an order forcing the show to institute disabled-friendly policies. The plaintiffs also want damages.
Filed under: TV, Dancing with the Stars
Tags: cbs, dancing with the stars, DancingWithTheStars, disabled, dog, DWTS, lawsuit, service dog, ServiceDog, wheelchair
Posted Jun 21st 2009 4:12AM by TMZ Staff
All you pornography addicts can rest easy -- Larry Flynt is doing just fine.
TMZ has learned that dire reports circling the web about the Hustler king's trip to the hospital last night were a tad exaggerated. According to Flynt's people, he had some minor stomach problems and went to his doctor for a quick "in and out" checkup.
He's currently back at home enjoying Father's Day -- probably in a very wholesome and solemn way.
Filed under: Nurse!
Tags: health, hospital, hustler, larry flynt, LarryFlynt, wheelchair
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 1:00PM by TMZ Staff
It's all fun and games until someone gets confined to a wheelchair -- which is exactly what one woman is claiming after she was allegedly attacked and left "crippled" by Sacha Baron Cohen (as Bruno) at a Bingo hall in 2007.
Richelle Olson has sued Cohen, NBC Universal and others claiming they told her Bruno was a celeb and would appear and call numbers at the charity bingo game she ran for the elderly in Palmdale, CA. Olson was none too happy when she saw Bruno, whom she describes as an "extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually revealing clothing with an Austrian accent..."
Olson alleges Bruno used "vulgar and offensive language" and when she tried taking the mic from him, a "physical struggle ensued" and Cohen "offensively touched, pushed and battered" her, causing her to fall to the ground.
She then claims three cameramen and others rushed the stage ... "where defendants attacked [her] for a period of one to five minutes to intentionally create a dramatic emotional response ... while [they] recorded her humiliation and embarrassment."
After the alleged assault was over, the suit says Olson went into another room where she was "sobbing uncontrollably" ... then was rendered unconscious ... "falling forward onto the thinly covered concrete slab, passing out and causing her to hit her head."
The suit says Olson was rushed to the hospital with a "diagnosis of two brain bleeds" -- and that she has been confined to a wheelchair and walker ever since.
Olson -- the Executive Director of Desert Valley Charities -- and her husband are suing for unspecified damages, including loss of marital relations.
Cohen's rep had no comment.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Tags: cripple, lawsuit, sasha baren cohen, SashaBarenCohen, wheelchair
Posted Jul 10th 2008 4:00PM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson was rollin' with his homies in Las Vegas while decked out in a trucker hat burqa, sanitary face shield and grampa's pjs.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird
Tags: michael jackson, MichaelJackson, wheelchair
Posted Jun 24th 2008 5:50PM by TMZ Staff
What has four wheels, a mysterious injury and Eddie Murphy's unwanted daughter? It's Mel B!
Someone in Mel's camp told us the reason she was in a wheelchair at LAX this weekend was because her "hip was out of joint or something" from the long flight. We're told she went to a chiropractor and is all better now.
Filed under: TV, Dancing with the Stars
Tags: melanie brown, MelanieBrown, scary spice, ScarySpice, wheelchair
