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Mr Marcus Ready To Sue KABC Channel 7 TV For Defamation
Mr Marcus calls Thursday afternoon. "You remember when they were running the HIV stuff on the news [in April of 2004]? Remember how they were showing Darren [James's] face and name all over the place? Included in that, they used a clip of me, him and this girl. They never distinguished who was who. Two black guys. They kept saying HIV, HIV. 'Darren James seen here in this clip.'
"I got a lot of phone calls from people [wondering if Marcus was HIV positive when he was not]. It just made everything awkward for me for a while.
"Almost a year later, it ain't really died down.
"I called Channel 7 after 42 people called me. I said, you don't need to include a clip of me in your HIV story. They said, ok, we're going to take it off. They never did.
"They would never do this to a Hollywood star.
"The industry is on a bigger scale than it used to be -- a lot more celebrity, power, money. But what kind of rights do we have as a performer? Are we less of an individual because we choose to do this as a living? There are a lot of socially-oriented financially-driven career-driven performance-driven people in this business. It's scheduled. It's planned.
"With the industry putting people on payroll, it's obvious that we are employees.
"The days of all the performers being f------up is changing. There are some types of family issues that everyone grows up with.
"When I first started in the business, I couldn't tell people what I was doing because I had to hear that all the time. That's what made me be an advocate. If you think this is the face of porn, I'm going to show you that it is changing."
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