Owen Wilson has powerful enemies

In a pot-fueled, poorly-written letter to Luke Wilson, Donald Fagan and Walter Becker of the 70’s stoner group ‘Steely Dan’ say that Owen Wilson – who Luke may or may not be in charge of – should apologize for ripping off their song ‘Cousin Dupree’ as the basis for his character in ‘You, Me and Dupree’. Then they threaten to have him killed. Seriously. Don and Walt say:

“What we suspect may have happened is this: some hack writer or producer or whatever they call themselves in Malibu or Los Feliz apparently heard our Grammy winning song “Cousin Dupree” on the radio and thought, hey, man, this is a cool idea for a character in a movie or something. OK, so the “cousin” idea was no doubt eliminated so as not to offend the Fundamentalist ticket buyers in the flyovers. Nevertheless, they, like, took our character, this real dog sleeping on the couch and all, and put him in the middle of some hokey “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” rip off story and then when it came time to change that characters name or whatever so people wouldn