Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'

Contents:

• ALAN THICKE TWEETS ABOUT KIRK CAMERON’S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• QA: ALAN THICKE DON'T AGREE WH KIRK CAMERON'S MENTS ON GAYS; HAPPY TO BE UNTRY WHERE ALL VIEWS ARE ALLOWED
• IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
• MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE SONGS, HAS 'FIXATN' ON LATE SGER
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• KIRK CAMERON FAC BACKLASH OVER ANTI-GAY REMARKS

ALAN THICKE TWEETS ABOUT KIRK CAMERON’S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

Alan Thicke has turned to edy to fe a public ntroversy stoked by his one-time TV son’s high profile homophobic ments. Thicke, who played Kirk Cameron‘s father on the fay iendly s Growg Pas, tweeted rponse to Cameron llg homosexualy “unnatural” and “stctive” on Piers Man Tonight, wrg “I’m gettg him some new books.

QA: ALAN THICKE DON'T AGREE WH KIRK CAMERON'S MENTS ON GAYS; HAPPY TO BE UNTRY WHERE ALL VIEWS ARE ALLOWED

Later the day, Thicke add another joke, tweetg, “I love Kirk but I may have to spank him…’tho not a gay way!

IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE

Cameron also me out agast gay marriage the terview, sayg, “One man, one woman for life till ath do you part. … So do I support the ia of gay marriage? A large number of celebri have e out agast Cameron’s anti-gay terview, wh Jse Tyler Fergon wrg, “The only unnatural thg about me beg gay is that I had a csh on Kirk Cameron until about 24 hours ago” and Roseanne Barr addg “kirk or kurt or whatever meron is an acplice to murr wh his hate speech.

MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE SONGS, HAS 'FIXATN' ON LATE SGER

Their peers r killg gays uganda. FOX411: What did you thk about Cameron's recent ments on homosexualy?

He was on Piers Man and I twtered that I love Kirk but I want to spank him and not a gay way. From the moment the first character posters om Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie arrived on the scene, my fely tuned gaydar started to pg.

Did my homosexual ey ceive me or did Ken appear to have a gay iend named Allan?

ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'

Unfortunately for me, there is no ncrete gay love story for Allan. Growg up gay, this otherns is a feelg I often enuntered around other boys.

In the 1960s when LGBTQ+ people often had to live closeted liv, gay men often scribed their lovers as "roommat" or "buddi. Concln: Is Allan Gay? While we technilly don't know if Allan is gay (and perhaps Allan himself don't know yet—after all, g out is a long, difficult procs pecially if you don't have queer role mols to look up to), I strongly believe that he is.

Also, a movie that is so heavily addrsg genr and romance and that clus such a massive st, mak sense that there would be a gay character the then begs the qutn, why isn't Allan explicly gay the movie? After all many gay boys (like myself) played wh Barbi growg up and would love to see that reprentatn on the screen.

KIRK CAMERON FAC BACKLASH OVER ANTI-GAY REMARKS

We jt don't for me, I am choosg to believe that Allan is wish fulfillment for all of the ltle gay boys of the world, who jt wanted to hang out wh Barbie her Dream Hoe, play drs up, and stay as far away om sports as humanly 's to Allan, a gay in the is now playg theaters. The tate of Marv Gaye is firg back at Rob Thicke over more than "Blurred L, " the tle track of his latt rerd. The fay ially claimed that Thicke's h plagiarized the soul in's 1977 track "Got to Give It Up" — and now, they're sistg that the sger stole om two of Gaye's Augt, the wrers of "Blurred L" — Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr.

— preemptively sued Gaye's tate after plats (as well as the group Funkalic), claimg that "Blurred L" was "starkly different" om "Got to Give It Up. " Now Gaye's fay have filed a untersu agast Thicke that claims he not only ripped off "Got to Give It Up" but that he also ged on the pyright to Gaye's song "After the Dance" for the tle track of his 2011 album "Love After War. " Legal papers also suggt that they're eyeg other songs Thicke's talog over the sger's alleged "Marv Gaye fixatn, " acrdg to The Hollywood Gaye llaborator David Rz: Rob Thicke, you're no Marv GayeIn their su, the Gay acce Thicke of wrg a siar chos, melody and more his song "Love After War, " wh regard to Gaye's "After the Dance.

" They also acce Thicke of "cludg the siar bridge and intil lyrics om Marv Gaye's 'I Want You' (his) siarly-themed work, 'Make U Love Me. '" They have not yet filed any claims over that song lawsu also go after Gaye's mic publisher, EMI April, which now operat unr the pany that manag Thicke's mic, Sony/ATV. Acrdg to THR, Gaye's fay acc the mic publisher of not protectg the sger's songs, attemptg to sre them away om takg legal reurse, givg up ntraly when the nflict of tert arose and tryg to draw public support away om the fay.