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An 42-year-old Ohio man has dealt a crippling setback to the credibility of the aspiring-middle-aged-screenwriters-who-live-in-their-parents'-basement movement by getting arrested for threatening a federal judge. whom he blamed for sabotaging his lawsuit against CAA:

The affidavit said that, in February, [U.S. District Judge Dickran] Tevrizian received a facetious letter from Clemens saying, in part, "You should not worry or be concerned whatsoever that some guy is going to walk up behind you, wherever you may be, and proceed to 'lay your brains out on the ground' although it is my wish."

Attached to the letter was an except from a screenplay Clemens claimed to be writing. It described a scene in which a homicide detective is confronted by the murders of four judges, all shot in the head, inside their homes.

Note to possibly aggrieved screenwriters looking to have their legal actions against big agencies taken seriously: If you insist on attaching script pages dramatizing your "facetious" death-threats to a judge, at least send ones that rip off something less hacky than The Pelican Brief.