Catfight at 30,000 feet - Songkram Nang Fah

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article link - http://www.dailyxpress.net/2008/03/15/cove...erstory_669.php

Catfight at 30,000 feet

Former flight attendants brace for defamation battle over online memoir depicting unsavoury goings-on between airline crew members

Published on March 15, 2008


Those whose lives are documented in the controversial book that spawned the infamous soap "War of Angels" are hitting back.


Their risqué antics could soon be given an airing in a courtroom.


The bawdy soap chronicles the steamy lives and loves of an aircrew.


An Army dentist whose real-life story is documented in the contentious Internet book has rallied fellow characters.


They claim they're "victims" of author and soap screenwriter and real-life scorned spouse of a character Royreudee Kenny. She wrote the online book "The Melancholic Life Book - A True Story Through the Computer". The instant Internet hit went on to be made into the raunchy soap "War of Angels".


Dentist Lt-Colonel Angsika Kusalasaya says her group, Victims of The Melancholic Life Book, will defend the dignity of all those named in its chapters. It hopes "to set a new social standard in defamation protection", Angsika says.


"We will reveal the truth behind our stories. As victims we are now seen as bad people," she says.


Angsika and friends can handle the gossip and public odium over their affairs and love triangles, she says, but as a mother she draws the line at being accused of abandoning her daughter, as claimed in the Royreudee prose.


That adult daughter is now a flight attendant. She's called "Norn" throughout "The Melancholic Life". Angsika says she's "mad" with people who now tease her using that name.


Angsika, 56, says her former husband, a Thai Airways pilot, called "Ning" in the book, is constantly taunted by his cockpit colleagues. Angsika is the unnamed pilot's first wife. The author of "The Melancholic Life" is his second wife.


And his new wife and his erstwhile lover, Patchara, called Cherry in Royreudee's rendition, has to put up with passengers and crew talking behind her back.


She says the jokes go something like this: "Is our pilot Ning today? I hope the plane doesn't crash because he's upset over his wives fighting."


The victims' lobby will go public in its denunciation of Royreudee and her writings.


But she says the group will leave open a chance for "conditional" negotiations with "the other side".


"But if there's no goodwill gesture, we'll sue for defamation," she promises.


Countering Royruedee's statement that they had not met previously, Angsika yesterday released a photo showing the writer at a party both women attended many years ago.

By Mayuree Sukyingcharoenwong


Daily Xpress

wow so much drama going on over this series!
 

max

sarNie Elites
I am sorry... I have been reading about this, but I am not actually sure what the big deal is. Maybe I am just slow? LOL. Also I did not watch this lakorn, so yes... Hee =)
 

mintwix

MMの弁護士。
Basically, the Thai audience just can't draw the line between fantasy and reality. Dunno if it deserves to be a big deal...just a hot topic. :huh:
 

pink_juliet_kashie

sarNie Oldmaid
But i do understand them though..i mean if I was Ning and the story was written about me...and ppl didn't know who i was then i would be okay w/ it...but if all of a sudden everyone started whispering than i'll be mad...but i dunno how much of the novel or lakorn was exaggerated so i won't have too much of a say here..

but anywayz..it was a great lakorn!!
 

mintwix

MMの弁護士。
Yes that is true. If something like the show destroyed/changed your reputation, it's understandable to take legal actions; afterall justice must be served. But supressing somebody's freedom of speech/press is also liberty limiting. The Thai audience just needs to learn to be more impartial.
 

tastesweetlove

sarNie Granny
i agree...a lot of drama....i feel bad for the author...so much heat on her :(
 
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