Is Steely Dan really so played out that they’re trying to sell tickets by getting Owen Wilson to show up at a gig? Its like when Nas used Jay-Z to get back in the game. Booo-urns Steely Dan, booo-urns.

Didn’t it take Steely Dan a long time to put out a certain album? And maybe it isn’t Owen Wilson writing the script for the movie…most actors don’t. Just a couple thoughts.

“Cousin Dupree” is about a boy lusting after his cousin. I’m guessing You, Me, and Dupree doesn’t have that storyline.

It might be entertaining if it did though.

Steely Dan are still around? It goes to show how off the radar they are of current culture that the only way they can get press is to pick a beef with an actual celebrity. No one under the age of 30 knows who they are. The boys are feeling their age and feeling left out. Sorry boys you had your moment and now it’s gone.

what a bunch of babies. i’ve truly heard it all now. wa wa wa… we have’nt written a new hit in decades but owen wilson is so popuolar now. LUCKY!!! he just happens to be in a movie with the word dupree…OMG we wrote a song with the work dupree it it!! wa wa, we are sooo washed up & owen wilson is so popular. he is so LUCKY!! wa wa

They, Steely Dan, haven’t SUED anybody. When they do, then it’s a different ballgame. In the meantime, they’re right. They had an idea swiped and turned into a crappy movie and they’re irked. I’d be irked too. The letter is funny. Good for them.

uh, could be its just sarchasm and humor,,,and an attempt at cheap publicity, they could have just come out of the closet!

Jeeze – Folks, this is really much ado about nothing. It took me awhile, but I actually found someone who has actually listened to that song, and there is no similarity between the point of that song and the plot of the script.

But go easy on Fag and Beckman. They’re trying hard to be hip and relevant… it’s really embarassing. I’m sure if they would only go back to making the kind of music I’m told they did back in the last century, they might be able to attract their old crowd.

Folks, I’ve always been told that if you have to badmouth someone to make yourself look better, you’ve already lost the game. That said, I’d appreciate it if Fag and Beckman would set their sites elsewhere and let me go back to concentrating on my new film, “Hey 19…”

Side note to Rikki Lee Jones: Be careful… I think they’re on to you for taking that name to cash in on Rikki Don’t Lose That Number!”

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Did anyone read the lyrics. This is nothing like the movie plot. Do they now have a copyright on the name Dupree? Sad attempt at publicity.

Nobody gets humor anymore. This current generation sux.

Owen,
Stop being a petulant child and own up to what you did. Your remarks in response to Donald and Walter’s thoughts are completely uncalled for. If you want to keep playing in these humiliating, insulting parts of movies that I can’t even watch all the way through, I guess that’s your problem. If you want to make money playing an ignorant idiot, that’s your issue.
You cannot even begin to understand the intellegence and significance of their music. But what were we to expect of you? You are nothing but a silly boy just playing a character actor. Donald and Walter are artists, which you would know nothing about.
You owe them an apology.

The least Steely Dan song is ten-fold better than any of the junk on today’s airwaves. Their concerts are filled with people from 70 to 20. What band has or ever will be able to reach that base?

It was a joke you morons !

it was a joke you morons

It was a joke. Owen Wilson even got it, he wrote an equally funny response. You clowns, on the other hand … shouldn’t you be watching the Home Shopping Network or something really productive?

zal yanovsky gave up his dealer to the cops in s.f. under threat of deportation to canada.
effectively ending his carrer in music.
snitch

And by the way. Owen’s answer was hilarious too. Entertainment!

The character was a ripp-off AND the letter was intended as a joke with truth to it.
Steely Dan won a grammy in 2001, and their monthly royalties are vast so how washed up could they be.
YES its true they are not the SUPERSTARS they were, but they enjoy playing and writing great music and living the life.
Most of us will never enjoy the life of being TRUE ARTISTS.
They go down in history as being some of the greatest songwriters of all time.
tipthejar: what have you done with YOUR life that you feel you can ridicule great artists whose music and lyrics you couldnt understand in you wettest of wet-dream?!
TK: Do you REALLY think the DAN feel sad? Are you really such a moron.
TK and tipthejar please stick to what you know best: making soy-lattes and frappacino’s at STARBUCKS. (no whipped cream on mine please and snap it up because Im late for a show…)

Well, the lyrics and the basic one-line of the movie do mean the same thing. Aimless slacker type parks himself on someone’s couch, eyes the girl, etc. But it’s unworthy of Steely Dan to stoop to this level. They are pure genius talent and I’ve got every single one of their albums. They’ve also openly criticised Wes Anderson for the themes in his films. Inexplicable animosity towards this group. I mean, even though they have so many great albums, a few of their songs have been complete dogs – corrosively diappointing. So surely they can find it in themselves to feel some empathy towards another fellow-artist who’s career is still work in progress. I wonder what they made of The Darjeeling Ltd. If they slammed that film, they need help.