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Via the New York Times: "Once upon a time in Ohio, he tasted another kind of stardom, and it was sweet. He was a national amateur dodgeball champion. 'Dodgeball was my life,' he said. 'You remember it being so fun and so simple. Yet so barbaric.'
"Back in Bexley, Ohio, in his early 20s, he was something of a pied piper of dodgeball. He was the force behind the Bexley Reckers, consisting of himself, two of his five brothers and assorted volunteers and draftees with a fan base large enough to get up a caravan of at least five cars.
"In 2000 and 2001, they went to the national dodgeball championships in the Chicago area and cleaned up.
"Perhaps it was not nearly so rough as the treacherous world of Hollywood, which Mr. Price says stole his movie idea and his screwball experiences as a dodgeball warrior. A federal judge this month set the stage for a classic show-business battle when she said a suit by Mr. Price and a writing partner could go to trial.
"The suit claims that the script of the 2004 hit movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, was so similar to one they wrote that it must have been copied. The judge, Shira A. Scheindlin of United States District Court in Manhattan, said some of the humor and other details were so similar that a jury should decide whether a copyright foul had been committed. She refused a motion to dismiss the suit filed by 20th Century Fox, which distributed the movie."
