While acknowledging the brilliance, Hollywood punditry never failed to complain that Mankiewicz characters simply talked too much.
The 2014 law creates a sliver of an opportunity to get around this - but it requires you, first, to seek agreement with the rights holder and, if that fails, to complain to the secretary of state for business.
Somehow the Republicans see no irony in claiming the Bush administration did nothing wrong in their treatment of detainees, but Nancy Pelosi knew what they were doing and failed to complain or take steps to stop it!
What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn't quite equate with actually authorizing and directly ordering torture.
A third EDP KI said that people do not come prepared to the meeting and only complain, they fail to discuss many important issues and there are always differences in opinion between the government and the EDPs.
If these fail to resolve the dispute, the complaining government can ask for a panel of trade officials to adjudicate.
But roughly half his customers fail to complete the program, he complained, with most of the cancellations coming within the first six months.
Critics, such as the Consumer Federation of America, a lobby group, complain that they fail to reduce the ratings agencies' influence as much as Congress wanted.
They have access, he complains, but they fail to do the "real" work of uncovering corporate malfeasance.
