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Senior Rockers 911: Mike Love, Art Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, Gladys Knight Battling Health Issues, Trying to Stay Viable (Videos)

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Senior Rockers 911: Mike Love, Art Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, Gladys Knight Battling Health Issues, Trying to Stay Viable (Videos)

Yes, it sucks to get old.

And it really sucks if you’ve been a massive music star for five or six decades and can’t let go.

Such is the case with Mike Love of the Beach Boys, the tremendous singer Art Garfunkel, and pop star Barry Manilow.

It’s also an emergency issue for Gladys Knight.

Today, though, Mike Love is the story. It looks like the 85 year old fell asleep on stage during a show last night. An audience member posted a video that made it look like John Stamos, who plays with the band, gently mocking him and trying to rouse Love’s attention.

Now Stamos has published a fuller picture of what happened, saying Love is facing “serious health issues.”

As for the others: Garfunkel had to postpone a big UK tour because of a respiratory infection. He had some important dates coming up and is clearly disappointed. But at 84, his health comes first.

Manilow stopped in the middle of a show the other night. More cancelled dates followed. He’s been battling lung cancer and just wants to finish his farewell tour.

Gladys Knight, 81, just played two shows despite audiences recording her clear frailty and possible dementia. Her family is frightened for the R&B great, and blame her manager husband for keeping her on the road.

See Stamos’s post below, and beneath that the video of him trying to get Mike Love’s attention.

Also, see the Gladys Knight video below. It’s very disturbing.

 
 
 
 
 
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“Gilded Age” Redux: Cornelius Vanderbilt and Family Returned to Grand Central Station Last Month, for “Real” via Hologram

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“Gilded Age” Redux: Cornelius Vanderbilt and Family Returned to Grand Central Station Last Month, for “Real” via Hologram

I just started watching new episodes of “The Gilded Age.” I can’t tell you anything about it yet, but you know the cast of characters.

Mr. Russell is still locked in battle with the Vanderbilt family over trains. It’s 1886 on the show.

But back here in 2026, the Vanderbilts have not gone away.

A month ago, during Fashion Week, some of the family reappeared at Grand Central Station in the form of holograms.

This was thanks to much descended relative Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin and partner Michaela Seewald. Costin, Founder and CEO of the House of Vanderbilt and Co-Founder of SohoMuse, and Michaela Seewald, Founder and CEO of V24 Media. You can imagine Bertha Russell throwing them a party at her mansion immediately.

In the past, Consuelo has used Grand Central — sort of her ancestral home — to promote her fashion line. But this time, in a scene out of the sitcom, “Ghosts” — she brought along the family that gave her her name.

Use Aexa Technhology, modern day Consuelo introduced Cornelius Vanderbilt, Alva Vanderbilt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and even her forerunner, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan to a crowd of fashionistas. Former “Access Hollywood” host Mario Lopez was the emcee.

Rather than treating heritage simply as nostalgia, the moment underlined one of the themes behind the evening: using an extraordinary American legacy as a platform for what comes next.

When I heard this, I was watching “The Gilded Age” trying to imagine how the Russells and Van Rijns of the show would react to see themselves in 2026. For one thing, they were very well preserved! They’d probably have been thrilled to meet V&S’s international designers including Lorena Saravia of Mexico, Stockholm-based Dustin Glickman of DSTN and Paris couturier Nabil Hayari of Hayari Paris.

You’ve got to see this, it’s the future — and the past:

Box Office: “Social Reckoning” Bombs Spectacularly with $5.5 Mil Weekend, Gives Sony The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Year

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Box Office: “Social Reckoning” Bombs Spectacularly with $5.5 Mil Weekend, Gives Sony The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Year

For a while there, Sony Pictures could do no wrong.

“Spider Man: Brand New Day” was the biggest hit of the year, grossing over $2 billion worldwide.

You can’t do better than that.

But now Sony has the biggest flop of the year, also, worse than Tom Cruise’s “Digger.”

“The Social Reckoning” opened with a $5.5 million weekend. Ouch!

Aaron Sorkin directed Jeremy Strong and Jeremy Allen White in a massive disaster about Facebook. It got pitched as the sequel to “The Social Network,” long ago hit about the early days of the social media platform.

But this movie had nothing to do with the first. And it had no “gotcha” moment where something shocking was revealed. It was just a lot of talk talk talk.

And now the talk is all bad. It’s definitely as bad as “Digger,” which now stands at $14 million in the US and $35.3 million worldwide.

These two films together will pull the 2026 average down considerably after the massive successes of “The Odyssey” and “Spider Man.”

By the way, this is the second movie starring Jeremy Strong and Jeremy Allen White that fizzled. The first was “Deliver Me from Nowhere.” I don’t think they will do a third movie together.

UPDATE Still No Promo for Tonight’s “60 Minutes,” Only Two Segments Revealed on Social Media Include PR Plug for Secret Service

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UPDATE Still No Promo for Tonight’s “60 Minutes,” Only Two Segments Revealed on Social Media Include PR Plug for Secret Service

There’s still no promo for tonight’s “60 Minutes.”

On social media, CBS has posted minute long clips of segments on the Secret Service, and on musician Jon Batiste.

Norah O’Donnell, who’s become an unfortunate stooge for CBS News chief Bari Weiss, did the Secret Service piece. It’s a valentine for the beleaguered agency, and a warning to anyone who might try anything with Donald Trump.

O’Donnell is destroying whatever legacy she had so far this season. The Secret Service piece follows her salute to Pete Hegseth and the Department of Jackasses.

Batiste is very talented, but there’s no news hook seeing him playing music in a stage New York subway scene.

What’s the third segment tonight? It’s not on politics or the environment or the war or the Nobel Peace Prize. Or why flash flooding is taking place all over the world. Or the price of gas or groceries.

Shane Gillis Goes Down in Flames Hosting “SNL,” Drops F Word Live, Viciously Disparages Women, Gays in Third Hosting Appearance

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Shane Gillis Goes Down in Flames Hosting “SNL,” Drops F Word Live, Viciously Disparages Women, Gays in Third Hosting Appearance

It was a horrible “Saturday Night Live” with Shane Gillis as host.

He dropped the f word live on the air. He called women “hoes and bitches” and made fun of gay people.

The whole show ground to a halt with his every appearance.

Gillis was hosting for the third time after being fired from “SNL” years ago. He’s not funny, or relevant, and it’s mind boggling that Lorne Michaels has given him all these new opportunities.

Pope Leo Will Have Surgery on Localized Nodule on Lung: Popular Pontiff Says “Detected at Very Early Stage”

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Pope Leo Will Have Surgery on Localized Nodule on Lung: Popular Pontiff Says “Detected at Very Early Stage”

Here’s the report from the Vatican.

Everyone’s going to be praying for Pope Leo this week. He’s very popular with all religions, clear eyed and modern. Not just Catholics need him to be well!

UPDATE: Amazon Dumping Sacha Baron Cohen “Ali G” Movie in Very Narrow Release for One Weekend Only Using Borat as Bait and Switch

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UPDATE: Amazon Dumping Sacha Baron Cohen “Ali G” Movie in Very Narrow Release for One Weekend Only Using Borat as Bait and Switch

UPDATE SUNDAY MORNING

According to the ad that ran last night on “SNL,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Ali G” movie is playing for one weekend only on October 23rd.

According to a check of theaters, “Ali G: Who Iz I?” is getting an extremely narrow release of just a few outlying houses, and even then once or twice a day.

Amazon is clearly dumping the comedy.

One sign that things have gone bad is that hew TV commercial uses Cohen’s Borat character and all of Borat’s flavor to pitch Al G. The two have nothing to do with each other, but Borat is now the bait and switch.

In the new trailer, Borat insists “Ali G” is unfortunately Not Racist, as rumored.

How bad is “Ali G: Who Iz I?” It must be pretty awful

Sacha Baron Cohen has really made a mistake bringing back his Ali G character.

A new ad trailer that popped on “Saturday Night Live” tonightsays the movie is only playing in theaters for one weekend October 23rd.

This is a new wrinkle, something added to the trailer that was running just yesterday.

Then Amazon/MGM will probably stream it on Amazon Prime for anyone who cares.

The movie is already not being shown in Picturehouse theaters in the UK over claims that the Ali G character is racist and objectionable on many levels.

The character was best left alone in time. No one clamored for more of Ali G, who goes around trying to make famous people look stupid. The character has none of the resonance of Borat, Cohen’s better liked if not just as offensive alter ego.

The “Ali G” movie must be pretty bad. And who knows — since no one’s seen it — if there isn’t something in it that Amazon didn’t count on. In the last “Borat” movie, Rudy Giuliani was destroyed in a segment where he lets a “hooker” (actually actress Maria Bakalova) take him up to a room and then unzips his pants while they frolic on a bed.

Don’t forget– Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos’s bff, was once scammed by Ali G.

Nada for Naza: No One’s Buying Tickets for Controversial Anti-Israel Documentary, Theaters Full of Empty Seats Opening Weekend

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Nada for Naza: No One’s Buying Tickets for Controversial Anti-Israel Documentary, Theaters Full of Empty Seats Opening Weekend

The ticket situation for “Naza”?

Nada.

No one in Manhattan is buying tickets for the controversial documentary in which anonymous sources accuse Israel of targeting bombing of Gaza civilians. The film was made by two Israelis who couldn’t anyone to go on the record. 

At the IFC Center on Sixth Avenue, two shows today were marked “sold out.” But every other show this weekend — and there are plenty — are wide open. I was able to reserve at least 23 seats for each one. You can buy seven at a time (see below).

Over at the Angelika Cinema 1 2 3 on West Houston Street, there were even more “Naza” tickets available. (see below)

Considering reports of protests, there may be more people outside the theaters than inside.

I haven’t seen “Naza” yet but I want to, and I urge everyone interested to look at it. Then watch the pro-Israel film about Naza with actual sources, not anonymous ones, and make your decision.

PS Although there were some sellouts tonight in Los Angeles, the situation is the same pretty much for tomorrow – lots of blue (see at bottom)

Kelly Clarkson Says She Was Snubbed by Owners of Brooklyn Store, Was “Treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman”

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Kelly Clarkson Says She Was Snubbed by Owners of Brooklyn Store, Was “Treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman”

Kelly Clarkson says she got the bum’s rush in Brooklyn today.

The famed pop singer and talk show host went out to Atlantic Avenue to see a shop called Art at Play.

Apparently, the staff wasn’t nice to her. Not only did they not recognize Clarkson — which is hard to imagine, don’t they have TV’s in Brooklyn? — they took her to be hoi polloi.

Kelly posted on Twitter, with a thumbs down emoji:

“Just drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy and literally was looked at as if I couldn’t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me. Wow, dude. You’re an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But y’all should go check out Art of Play in Brooklyn if you enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman. For sure, check it out ”

Art of Play describes itself as Brooklyn Height’s premier curiosity shop.” They don’t have a copy editor, because the s should precede the apostrophe.

Anyway, going by car to Brooklyn is hike if in a car, trust me, I know. A lot of packing is involved and a visa must be secured.

But Kelly, this can happen in Manhattan, too. And you don’t have to be a celebrity. I browsed in a watch store on Spring Street in Soho recently and no one from the staff even looked up while I was there.

Art of Play, you’ve got a problem.

Pop Fizz: 5 of iTunes Top 20 Are AI as Record Sales Collapse, But the Beatles, Taylor Swift, Old Britney Spears Take Up Most of the Oxygen

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Pop Fizz: 5 of iTunes Top 20 Are AI as Record Sales Collapse, But the Beatles, Taylor Swift, Old Britney Spears Take Up Most of the Oxygen

Twenty years from now, oldies will look a lot different than they do today.

On this week’s iTunes top 20, five of the tracks are Ai. They’re not humans, they’re created from dust and computers.

Imael Angel, Bob Dominator, Bjorn Bonebreaker, and Topher Ryan are the “artists.”

I guarantee you there will be a Grammys Best AI record category in 2028.

Otherwise, the record biz — with record low numbers — was dominated this week by Taylor Swift. She has three different versions of her song “Patient Zero” at the top of iTunes.

Britney Spears dusted off a 25 year old record she wrote or produced with long ago ex, Justin Timberlake, and that’s at number 5.

In the flashback world, the Beatles sold 56,000 copies of the new “Rubber Soul Super Deluxe” two CD or box set.

Much of the album chart is oldies: catalog albums from Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, The Eagles, Queen and so on.

And Miley Cyrus? Her abandoned new album, “Bass Persuades,” is gone after a couple of weeks. Completely gone. Second release in a row that sank to the bottom of the music ocean without a trace.

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