Quentin Tarantino.

Does he have dementia? Suffer from verbal diarrhea?

Is he on the spectrum?

The director of “Pulp Fiction” broke the golden rule on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast this week. He dissed popular and talented actors in a vicious way.

Tarantino said of beloved actor Paul Dano starring with Daniel Day Lewis in the acclaimed movie “There Will Be Blood”:

“Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander. But it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander,” Tarantino said. “[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister. [Daniel] is eating him [alive]. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn’t need a strong foil. The movie needs it. He doesn’t need anything. It’s supposed to be a two-hander and it’s not! … you put him with the the weakest fucking actor in SAG? The limpest dick in the world?”

WTF? Dano does a remarkable job in that movie, as he does in everything in which he’s featured. He’s one of our top talents of this generation.

Tarantino continued: “I am not saying he is giving a terrible performance, I am saying he’s giving a non-entity performance… I don’t care for him.”

This from the man who made the absolutely dreadful film, “The Hateful Eight,” two and a half hours of torture other than Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Tarantino also insulted Owen Wilson, star of Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” Although he said Woody’s film was his 10th favorite of this century, he had to add: “Oddly enough, I really can’t stand Owen Wilson. I mean, I can’t stand him. And I spent the first time watching the movie loving it and hating him. The second time I watched the movie, I was like ‘Okay, don’t be such a prick. He’s not so bad. He’s not so bad.’ And then the third time I watched it I found myself watching him.”

Is Tarantino suffering from dementia? He also insulted Matthew Lillard, who did such great work in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants.”

What Tarantino has done here is break the unwritten rule of not dissing working actors. It’s petty and mean spirited and designed only to be hurtful. He’s crossed a line and should make amends immediately. Maybe he can send these three guys Tom Cruise’s coconut cake for working Thetans.

As for Dano, he deserved an Oscar nom for “There Will Be Blood.” He’s been amazing in everything including “Love and Mercy,” “Dumb Money,” “The Fabelmans,” “Escape at Dannemora,” and so many others.

Tarantino is getting a major time out. Sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.

In “Wicked for Good,” Glinda has no super powers. She just rides around in a motorized bubble.

Now that bubble looks like it might be bursting. “WFG” is slowing down at the box office.

I thought by today they’d hit $300 million, but the Universal music has had three bad weekdays. It’s stuck at $287 million in the US. Declines for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday average 80% from the same days last week.

Have all the “Wicked” fans satisfied their curiosity? Are fans going back for seconds? This weekend will be edifying as “WFG” has been pulled from 130 theaters. It’s still in a huge release — 3,985 — but “Zootopia” seems to have stolen its thunder.

Stay tuned…

Disney-Fox remains a hilarious company.

For a long time they’ve had James L. Brooks’ first movie in 16 years, called “Ella McCay.”

Brooks is a giant in Hollywood. Oscar winner, Emmy winner, director of “Terms of Endearment,” “As Good as It Gets,” and “Broadcast News.” He also created the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons among other TV series.

I’ve been asking for weeks about this movie and have gotten nowhere. Then the press was invited to a screening last night at a crappy theater on West 42nd St. Meantime, Disney-Fox quietly had a celebrity deal at the Museum of Modern Art.

Too funny. Unfortunately, there was also a nor’easter last night in New York.

(At the same time, PS, Amazon MGM had a premiere at Alice Tully Hall, of all places, for a Michelle Pfeiffer no one has ever heard of. Alice Tully Hall!)

Anyway, on Twitter, social influencers who walked the red carpet, have deluged the platform with embarrassing plugs for “Ella McCay.”

But the reviews are also rolling in and they’re not good.

Writes one:
“Saw a movie last might that is embargoed even for social media reactions. Oof. Terrible terrible terrible. It must take a special kind of genius to make something this terrible…Now that the embargo is up, the catastrophically terrible film I was talking about is ELLA MCCAY. It would be staggeringly regressive & dated in the 50s. Performances are so broad, especially from Jamie Lee Curtis, that they would be too grotesque for broadcast TV sit-coms.”

And another: “sorry to say ella mccay is one of the worst, most incomprehensible, baffling films i’ve ever had the displeasure of enduring. not a comedy, drama, or dramedy but a half-written script dug from james l. brooks’ “IDEAS” folder. feels like talking with a concussion. so, a must-see!”

And one more: “Ella McCay is baffling. Not a single character resembles or talks like an actual human being – it’s like it was written by someone who’s never had a real conversation. Incomprehensible filmmaking on every level: unfunny, overwritten, botched drama. One of the year’s worst films.”

Disney is also giving away tons of tickets in every city through various contests and promotions. We’re going to be seeing Ella on Disney Plus very soon. You’d think after the “Deliver Me from Nowhere” debacle they’d try to curry interest from the press, but that would be a big “No.”

Again, James L. Brooks is a hero. But his last film, “How Do You Know?” from 2010, was a strike out. I guess he thought he’d try for one more. But nothing sullies is remarkable legacy.