Brett Ferino
03-25-2003, 03:24 PM
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - He's Just Jack to fans of "Will & Grace." To a Los Angeles interior designer, however, Jack McFarland is much more.
The designer, Jack Deamer, has settled a lawsuit with "Will & Grace" co-creator Max Mutchnick over the origins of the Jack character. Deamer claims Jack, the flamboyant friend of the two title characters who's played by Sean Hayes on the NBC sitcom, is based on him.
The suit, filed in March 2001, was scheduled for trial this week, but it "was resolved by mutual agreement," Deamer's lawyer, Alan Harris, tells Reuters.
In the suit, Deamer claims he and Mutchnick had been friends for several years before Mutchnick and David Kohan pitched "Will & Grace" to NBC. Deamer says he was "chagrined, embarrassed and devastated" to discover that the show included a character named Jack who was a "thinly veiled caricature of himself."
Deamer asked Mutchnick to change the name of the character. Mutchnick would not, but, according to the suit, he agreed to buy Deamer a house and a car if the show became a success.
The designer, Jack Deamer, has settled a lawsuit with "Will & Grace" co-creator Max Mutchnick over the origins of the Jack character. Deamer claims Jack, the flamboyant friend of the two title characters who's played by Sean Hayes on the NBC sitcom, is based on him.
The suit, filed in March 2001, was scheduled for trial this week, but it "was resolved by mutual agreement," Deamer's lawyer, Alan Harris, tells Reuters.
In the suit, Deamer claims he and Mutchnick had been friends for several years before Mutchnick and David Kohan pitched "Will & Grace" to NBC. Deamer says he was "chagrined, embarrassed and devastated" to discover that the show included a character named Jack who was a "thinly veiled caricature of himself."
Deamer asked Mutchnick to change the name of the character. Mutchnick would not, but, according to the suit, he agreed to buy Deamer a house and a car if the show became a success.