Talk:Amy Alkon
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Miss Alkon is said to be patient with blog commenters.
[edit] To Amy with love
You can try to sue me...but the New Yorker article is FACT and can be proven in court...and I would win anyway... All three of you knew that I was the real McCoy but did nothing to inform the media about that fact... As for calling me a nut: are you a psychiatrist or psychologist?? You should open your mind to the infinite and learn what I and Spinoza have learned: wisdom does not come about by harming others... ALec Wilkinson of The New Yorker would be more than happy to come to my defense... and the article is all the evidence I need... Hating other people does not qualify you to be a Free Advice giver...
==A matter of fact== (ACTUALLY, AMY ALKON HERE -- THE COMMENT BELOW IS NOT TRUE)
In 1987 (the August 17 issue) The New Yorker magazine published an article written by Alec Wilkinson concerning one Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, a 23 years of age individual who would sit out in Greenwich Village and offer passersby Free Advice. In 1991 the first media reports about the three Free Advice Ladies began to appear. Why? Because, unbeknownst to the general public, Amy Alkon and her two colleagues Minnick and Johnson, had read the article in The New Yorker and figured they could make it appear to be their own original idea. Nothing could be further from the truth. The evidence exists at The Official Free Advice Man Web-site.When the original Free Advice Man went back up to New York from Baltimore, where he was residing at the time, and confronted the three intellectual thieves, he asked them, without first divulging his own respective identity, where they had come up with the idea. Because they were not under the spotlight of a major mass media outlet they divulged the truth: they said something to the effect that they had read this article in The New Yorker and that they thought that this would be fun to do. Nowhere, not on Oprah, not on CNN, or anywhere else, did these three persons inform the public that they were making their fame at the expense of someone else's idea. Lightning-Feather 12:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- This is ridiculous. "The expense of someone else's idea?" Oh, please. Like free advice is some great intellectual privilege in need of a 1000 different copyrights and 2000 patents. But as it is, by the standards of Wikipedia, true or not, this will still not stand in the article itself. Not one event of this is verifiable, nor has it ever been reported in any major media outlet. At least if this event made it to "The New York Times" or something, it could stand as something you "alleged." The only verifiable aspect of the above statement is that an article appeared in the 1987 New Yorker. You can't prove that Alkon and her colleagues got the idea from an article they supposedly read four years earlier. As (the writer claiming to be) Alkon states, Charles M. Schultz has more intellectual ownership of the idea for his character of Lucy Van Pelt offering psychiatric help for 5 cents. For that matter, Bill Watterson once had his character of Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) set up a booth offering "Candid Opinions" which he used to hurl abuse at a neighbor's child, Susie Derkins. And your claims of your encounter with Alkon and company are simply hearsay. We have absolutely nothing to go on but your word vs. hers. As far as I know, you never even made your claims of this "confrontation" to a major news outlet, so it could be reported on. The idea that the above should be included in the text of the article is simply asinine. As "stubby" as the text is, at least what's there is honest. PatrickLMT 09:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Amy Alkon posting here, the above is a lie, and libelous, and should be removed. As I posted on my blog after somebody alerted me to this remark:
Actually, the nut who wrote DeNiro to tell him he had the idea first posted a lie below that that we said we'd read the piece in The New Yorker. We didn't, and didn't say so. Moreover, I couldn't afford the New Yorker in those days, or much of anything else, as I was paying my entire salary for rent, rollerskating 50 blocks to work to save a dollar on the subway, and eating out of conference rooms so I wouldn't starve to death.
Furthermore, The Advice Ladies was a fun idea, but not a unique one -- see Peanuts, Lucy's 5-cent advice stand. We undercut her by five cents -- mostly because we never thought anybody would want to pay us for anything we had to say. Marlowe has since died, and we haven't done street corner advice for over 10 years.
