Seinfeld Spooks

What would be scarier? Finding out that the chocolatey brownies you just ate are actually made from pureed carrots and spinach, or taking on the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld in court over alleged plagiarism? It probably depends on the power of your entertainment lawyer. In federal court papers filed last week, author Missy Chase Lapine said her 7-year-old daughter was upset after late last year, Seinfeld joked on David Letterman's Late Show, which airs on CBS (nyse: ), that people with three names--James Earl Ray and Mark David Chapman, for instance--turned out to be assassins. Ray was the confessed assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Chapman murdered Beatles' guitarist John Lennon. Lapine said she "never felt so frightened and vulnerable" as when her daughter came home from school "and asked, 'Mom,... [read full story]