What if 'real' Brock Vond crops up?

[Ya Sam]

"In his narrative, set in London's tin pan alley in the 70s, Arnott 
introduced a character called Tony Rocco: a one-time big-band singer, now an 
impresario and a big-time pervert in the Harry Starks mould. Nasty. Alas, 
out of obscurity, escorted by his learned friends in wigs, emerges the 
real-life Tony Rocco: former big-band singer and a figure of unimpeachable 
respectability.

Exit the book. Exit, also, many thousands of pounds from the coffers of 
Arnott's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton. Doubtless, like others in their 
risky line of business, they will have taken out hefty insurance policies 
against such libel hits. But it still hurts.

Johnny Come Home, we are reassured, will be reissued with the requisite 
name-change. And if Jake is prudent, he will follow the example of Arthur 
Hailey. The author of Airport was in the habit of checking his characters' 
names against the two million in the Manhattan telephone directory. It 
resulted in villains like the hippy terrorist in Overload with the moniker 
"Davey Birdsong". But before the recent court ruling, many might have 
thought "Tony Rocco" fairly surreal."


http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1950369,00.html

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