Ron Howard began his directing career in 1977 with a rip-off homage called "Grand Theft Auto," in which he also starred, and the climactic chase in the 1980 "Blues Brothers" also stands in Mr. Halicki's shadow.
Sen. John McCain, who has called a U.S. military contract with Boeing a "rip-off," sent a letter to Boeing Chief Executive Philip Condit requesting documents related to the deal, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The trailer premiered at NYC ComicCon today, showing the titular Future Man himself Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games coming to terms with being a rip-off of the hero from The Last Starfighter.
These remittance services advertise a low flat fee of a few dollars but get away with robbery by baking a rip-off exchange rate into their websites' transfer calculator.
Tarzan in Istanbul is actually very good, and Kilink, a suavely evil skeleton with an eye for the ladies (a rip-off of an Italian comic book character), deserves his own Hollywood franchise.
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Piracy is also a problem for pay-TV operators: anyone with a decoder can rip off premium content and retransmit it, and copyright is often hard to enforce in Africa.
PS Watching now on FX, Pizza Hut commercial with music that is a crass rip off of "Gold on the Ceiling" by the Black Keys.
Zuckerberg, who sued a German copycat last summer, has this summer made close ties with a Russian rip-off, vKontakte.
Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork Media was more critical of the song, commenting that "Raining Men is a shameless Beyoncé rip-off that would be quickly dismissed if not for the fact that it's a pretty-damn-good Beyoncé rip off with a characteristically scene-stealing guest verse from Nicki Minaj".
Come Date With Me was a shameless attempt to rip off Dinner Date, which in turn was a shameless attempt to rip off Come Dine With Me.
