Stolen 'Flowers'?  Writer Reed Martin believes the similarities
between his screenplay and Jim Jarmusch's are more than
coincidental  By Joseph P. Kahn Globe Staff / June 28, 2006
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size +  Editor's note: After a jury verdict in favor of Jim
Jarmusch, US District Court Judge Ronald S. W. Lew dismissed
Reed Martin's lawsuit on Oct. 10, 2007.  CAMBRIDGE -- Director
Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" came out last summer and made
many lists of the year's best movies. A Grand Prix winner at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival, the offbeat comedy stars Bill Murray
as an aging Don Juan who revisits a string of former
girlfriends, trying to puzzle out why his life seems so
unfulfilled.  But when Reed Martin saw "Broken Flowers," he
wasn't laughing or applauding. Martin, a freelance journalist
and adjunct professor of film marketing at New York University,
left the theater with a knot in his stomach.  Vir