"It's no different from a case where your leg is cut off in an automobile accident," says lawyer Robins. "What is that leg worth?"
Really? Is being portrayed as a dope-smoking teenager in a movie really comparable to getting your leg cut off? Does having acquaintances ask you to smoke dope really cause "severe emotional distress"?
Andy Slater, left, Rick Floyd and Bobby Wooderson say the negative attention they still get irks them.
(Mark Matson For The Washington Post)
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Yes, says Floyd: "It's dreadful. If I'm at a Chamber of Commerce meeting with my wife, who has a business here in town, and I'm asked about it, yes, it's going to cause me some embarrassment and some severe emotional distress."
"It's real frustrating that people I meet don't get to know me as me," says Slater. "That's all they want to talk about when they meet you. They say, 'Is that movie really true?' It's frustrating."
Signing autographs is also a pain, they say, especially if you didn't want to be famous in the first place.
"My sister works for a resort," says Floyd, "and her general manager there, he's a young guy, maybe 30, and he wanted Bob [Wooderson] and I to sign his DVD. She bought it for him for Christmas and asked us to sign it."
Floyd signed the DVD, he says, because his sister was asking. But he finds it absurd that anybody would want his autograph.
"I have a football signed by Tom Landry," he says. "I'm a big Cowboys fan and it sits on the mantel in a pristine place. But that's Tom Landry! It's not Pink Floyd."
He laughs. So does everybody else.
"My mother calls me in one day," says Floyd, "and she says, 'I just watched this movie and it had a character in it called Pink Floyd and I know people call you Pink. And they had a character called Wooderson. How true is that movie?' "
Slater laughs. So does Wooderson.
"I said, 'Well, mom, it's loosely based on facts.' "
