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Quentin Tarantino Joins Fellow Horror Directors for a Toast as “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Poster Arrives to Tease New Film

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Quentin Tarantino Joins Fellow Horror Directors for a Toast as “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Poster Arrives to Tease New Film

Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”  debuted its teaser poster today with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio looking retro cool. The film tells the tale of the Manson Family killing of actress of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) set against other crazy events in the summer of 1969.

At the legendary Smokehouse eatery last night Tarantino was a part of the Horror Director crowd as a guest of Director Mick Garris’s bi-annual Masters of Horror dinner. The gathering included James Gunn, who was congratulated on being rehired by Disney for “Guardians of the Galaxy 3.” He’s off to South America to shoot the reboot of “Suicide Squad.”

Among other horror maestros there were Joe Dante, Leigh Whannell, John Landis and Adam Rifkin. Tarantino and Rifkin, director of Burt Reynolds final film ‘The Last Movie Star,” commiserated over the legendary star’s recent passing. Quentin had cast Burt in “Once Upon a Time,” but unfortunately Reynolds died the week before he was supposed to shoot his role of George Spahn the owner of the ranch where the Manson family lived. (Tarantino did cast Luke Perry, will appear posthumously.) Bruce Dern stepped in play the role.

Very likely debuting in Cannes this May, Quentin’s homage to the town he loves, he’s been working on this script for five years, is filled with stars including the late Luke Perry, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Damian Lewis, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant and more. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” is set to be released on July 26th.

That’s All Folks: Kevin Tsujihara Out as Head of Warner Bros. In Mind Blowing Sex Scandal With a Plot Right Out of a Jackie Collins Novel

Roger Friedman
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That’s All Folks: Kevin Tsujihara Out as Head of Warner Bros. In Mind Blowing Sex Scandal With a Plot Right Out of a Jackie Collins Novel

Say goodbye to Warner Bros., chief Kevin Tsujihara. He is out as chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a job he’s held for six years.

“It is in the best interest of WarnerMedia, Warner Bros., our employees and our partners for Kevin to step down as Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros.,” said WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey on Monday.

Stankey added, “Kevin has contributed greatly to the studio’s success over the past 25 years and for that we thank him. Kevin acknowledges that his mistakes are inconsistent with the Company’s leadership expectations and could impact the Company’s ability to execute going forward.”

Tsujihara got mixed up in a crazy sex scandal that was scooped by the Hollywood Reporter two weeks ago. He was sleeping with an actress who thought she’d get acting jobs from the relationship, and she was “passed” to Tsujihara from Mariah Carey’s ex fiancee (but before they knew each other) James Packer. Packer and Brett Ratner were financing Warner films (with the help of our now Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin) as RatPac. You saw their logo on a lot of films. In 2013-14 Packer was sleeping with Charlotte Kirk, then she went to the married Tsujihara. The most she got out of it was a small role in “Ocean’s 8.”

If only Jackie Collins were alive. She’d get a bestseller out of this one!

It’s amazing what’s gone on at Warner Bros. Alan Horn ran the company really well until he was forced out. Now he’s the King of Hollywood, running Disney-Marvel-LucasFilm-Pixar. He got the last laugh. Ratner got caught in the #MeToo scandal, Packer–a Scientologist– got engaged to Mariah Carey after his fling with Kirk, then Mariah kicked him to the curb and kept his $10 million ring. LOL. Tsujihara was named one third of a trifecta running Warners that included Sue Kroll and Toby Emmerich. Kroll, who everyone loves, got out of there and started producing movies because who needs all this crap? Emmerich could become the head of Warners. But who knows what Stankey has in mind?

And then there are the movies. Remember them? Things aren’t so hot right now. “Harry Potter” is over, and the recent “Fantastic Beasts” wasn’t so fantastic. The DC Universe is a mess, although “Shazam” might kickstart it for the umpteenth time. Kroll brought the bright light with “A Star is Born.” Eastwood made a hundred mil with “The Mule,” a stealth movie. Aren’t you glad you don’t have these problems?

And Charlotte Kirk? Too bad they don’t make No Regrets jeans anymore. She’d be a perfect spokesperson.

To quote a past president of Warners, Elmer Fudd, That’s all, folks!

New York Times Story About Homeless 8 Year Old Chess Champion Raises $81K In Less Than Three Days for Kid, Family

Roger Friedman
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New York Times Story About Homeless 8 Year Old Chess Champion Raises $81K In Less Than Three Days for Kid, Family

On Saturday, 8 year old Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family were living in a New York City shelter. They are homeless.

But a story in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof has turned that all around. Since Saturday, $81,000 has been raised for the family on gofundme.com.

The incentive here is that Tani is a grade school chess champion. His parents — who emigrated here a year ago from Nigeria– are hard workers. But they have nowhere to live.

Tani’s teacher, Russ Makofksy, started the GoFundMe page. He writes in the updates today: “This past weekend at the New York State Chess Championships he claimed the title of New York State Primary Chess Champion! (Top Players K – 3rd Grade).

Read the link to the Times story. Amazing! We’ll check back in and see how the campaign proceeds.

TV: Prescient “Billions” Returns with A Visit to Sparks Steak House and Talk of ’85 Gambino Hit Same Week as New Gambino Mob Murder

Roger Friedman
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TV: Prescient “Billions” Returns with A Visit to Sparks Steak House and Talk of ’85 Gambino Hit Same Week as New Gambino Mob Murder

I don’t know how Brian Koppelman and David Levien could have known there’d be a major mob the week their show “Billions” returned to Showtime.

But somehow they must have picked up a vibe. Or they knew the guy that killed Frank Cali this past week in Staten Island. Cali ran the Gambino crime family. And the last major hit on the leader of the Gambino’s was at Sparks Steak House on East 45th St. back in 1985.

On tonight’s opener, star Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades and Michael Rispoli as Richie Sansome actually go to Sparks to cut a deal. (They’re surveilled by the US Attorney.) And then they go outside and re-enact the hit (without guns), ending the episode lying in the wells of the front seat of their car with the doors open.

WTF? Crazy! Until this week, no one has mentioned Sparks in eons. But that’s where Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family, was killed before he managed to get his steak.

Weird! I doubt Koppelman and Levien could have guessed when they were writing the new season of “Billions” that Cali would get offed or that NY press would be reminiscing about Sparks from 34 years ago.

The rest of the opening episode was just as cool, with all kinds of great music references, and trips to power dining venues like Michael’s,  the former Four Seasons, EAT, and Barney Greengrass. We also cameos from Jerry O’Connell, Donny Deutsch and the blissful news that Samantha Mathis has joined the cast. Plus Asia Kate Dillon looked hot in a long brunette wig.

But the Sparks thing– this show rocks! Maybe Showtime can get them some Emmy nominations this year.

PS Where is Malin Ackerman?

Theater: Isabelle Huppert Is Up for Anything and She Can Play It, And She Does, Off Broadway in “The Mother” with Chris Noth

Regina Weinreich
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Theater: Isabelle Huppert Is Up for Anything and She Can Play It, And She Does, Off Broadway in “The Mother” with Chris Noth

Petite and pretty, Isabelle Huppert plays it edgy. In the 2016 “Elle” — for which she was Oscar nominated and winner of many awards– and this year’s “Greta,” her characters kill with aplomb. Those are just two roles in a prolific film career that also includes the shocking 2001 “The Piano Teacher.” Incest and self-mutilation do not faze her.

Currently in the play, “The Mother, ” at the Atlantic Theater, from Florian Zeller as translated by Christopher Hampton, and under Trip Cullman’s expert direction, she seethes with angst, jealousy, raging at her husband (Chris Noth in that role), repeating rapid fire: “Where were you this afternoon?” even after he’s answered in several ways—the office, at work, a meeting. Perched provocatively on an elongated white couch, a furniture version of an extended limo, reading a book—Marguerite Duras’ “The Lover,” she tells me later– her gaze is down on the page, looking and not looking simultaneously, a chilling portrait of a housewife on the brink.

What’s going on? An empty nester, she’s also wondering about their son Nicholas (Justice Smith), why doesn’t he answer her calls? Why doesn’t he phone? “Well,” says Noth. “He’s living his life.” “You are a very bad person!” she exclaims. Psychic contradictions turned outward, in a Freudian twist: the son attempts to strangle her. Cue Hamlet on Gertrude.

On the night we attended, lightning lurked in the Manhattan sky, and soon a heavy, epic rain pounded on the Linda Gross Theater’s roof. Was hell breaking loose? A voice instructed the actors on stage, Huppert and Odessa Young, playing a nurse among other roles, to exit stage left, and the audience to stay seated. We could not tell, was this a fourth wall break, or a tech mishap? The play resumed, sound system restored. As the rain tapered off, an audience that included the great Brenda Vaccaro, art dealer extraordinaire Larry Gagosian, and a couple who flew in from Paris for a night just to see Huppert in this role, lingered on to congratulate the star. The man said, “She’s worth it.”

PS Are there tickets? Get down there to West 20th St. and find out. You don’t want to miss this one.

TMZ Sticks To Its Story About Paris Jackson Suicide Attempt Even Though She Went to the Movies Same Afternoon

Roger Friedman
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TMZ Sticks To Its Story About Paris Jackson Suicide Attempt Even Though She Went to the Movies Same Afternoon

TMZ is sticking with its story that Paris Jackson attempted suicide on Saturday morning and was placed on a 5150 hold in the psych ward of a hospital.

They haven’t backed down even though Paris was photographed going to the movies on Saturday afternoon with her boyfriend. And it’s not like her “5150” started before Saturday morning. She was out and about and Tweeting away for two days prior.

She Tweeted minutes after the TMZ story, calling them “fucking liars.”

So, Paris went to the hospital for some reason. If she did attempt suicide, or anything else that was life threatening, it seems strange the hospital would let her leave. We wait for further updates.

Box Office Boffo: “Captain Marvel” Crosses $500 Mil Monday, But “Captive State,” “Wonder Park” Disappoint Fans, Investors

Roger Friedman
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Box Office Boffo: “Captain Marvel” Crosses $500 Mil Monday, But “Captive State,” “Wonder Park” Disappoint Fans, Investors

Today, “Captain Marvel” will finish out Sunday with $496 million. This means tomorrow is $500 million day. Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson added $68 million in their second weekend. It’s quite an accomplishment. “Captain Marvel” is the future of Disney-Marvel now, as she will also make an appearance in “Avengers: Endgame.”

The rest of the box office is dismal. “Captive State,” a movie no one knew about with John Goodman, was DOA as predicted. Apparently it’s not even rated. Is that possible? They made $3.9 million. Why even release it? Just so people who couldn’t get into “Captain Marvel” had a place to go in the cineplex?

And “Wonder Park” was less than animated but very cartoon like with $16 million. It cost over $100 million.

M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” is ending a nine week run with $110 million, most of it made in the first two weeks. I doubt anyone remembers that it was released. It came, it went. Bruce Willis hardly spoke in it, and was filmed oddly. Still, it was a Samuel L. Jackson film. He’s the theme of the box office this run.

Jordan Peele’s “Us” starts previews Thursday night, opens Friday and will be a BLOCKBUSTER.

Best Story Ever: Billy Baldwin Says Wife Chynna Phillips Checked into an LA Hotel Rather Than Drive Home in Rush Hour Traffic

Roger Friedman
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Best Story Ever: Billy Baldwin Says Wife Chynna Phillips Checked into an LA Hotel Rather Than Drive Home in Rush Hour Traffic

Without a doubt this is my favorite Tweet in a long time.

According to actor Billy Baldwin, his wife, Chynna Phillips, checked into an LA hotel rather than drive home in rush hour traffic.

Fifty years ago, Chynna’s dad, John Phillips, of the Mamas and Papas, stopped into a church on a winter’s day. But Chynna stopped into four star hotel (presumably) instead of driving back home. On a sunny day, 81 degrees in LA.

Well, why not? Chynna made a lot of money with Wilson Phillips. It’s hoped she inherited some money from her dad, John. Why didn’t she just go see her mom, the great Michelle Phillips? Too easy!

The Baldwins live in Santa Barbara, a killer drive from L.A. especially on a Friday during rush hour. We don’t know from Billy’s text where Chynna gave up, but we can only hope it was someplace great. And that she gets back by Monday, Monday!

Celebrities, they’re just like us!

UPDATED Fox News Yanks Judge Jeanine Pirro Show In Light of New Zealand Massacre, Wisely Muzzles Anti-Islam Host

Roger Friedman
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UPDATED Fox News Yanks Judge Jeanine Pirro Show In Light of New Zealand Massacre, Wisely Muzzles Anti-Islam Host

A P.S. ON TOP HERE: Pirro’s absence Saturday night also prevents her from plugging her paperback, “Liars, Leaks and Liberals.” It’s currently number 84,650 on amazon, and releases on Tuesday. The hardcover was briefly a bestseller last year. But things have changed. Let’s see how she does next week.

Fox News finally shows some sense. They’ve yanked Jeanine Pirro’s hideous show from tonight’s lineup and replaced with a rerun of another show.

The company seems to have done this to avoid starting a world war. This week. 49 people in New Zealand were murdered at a mosque by a crazy anti-Islamist.

Pirro is well known for her anti-Islamist rhetoric, and overall hate speech. Fox News can’t risk her going on live and mouthing off enough to incite trouble. For once, they’re on the ball.

Pirro does have an audience. Last week 2 million people watched her say crazy things off the top of her head. Pirro has continued to attack US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. Her rhetoric this weekend could really spark violence no one needs or wants.

Fox News: keep Pirro off the air forever, please. She’s demented. Look at these clips:

TMZ Says Paris Jackson Attempted Suicide, She Tweets Not True, But Sources Say It Is (Anyway. She’s Home)

Roger Friedman
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TMZ Says Paris Jackson Attempted Suicide, She Tweets Not True, But Sources Say It Is (Anyway. She’s Home)

 

UPDATE: Paris is home, she’s fine, according to TMZ. Somehow they’ve published a photo of Paris and boyfriend from inside the place at which she’s arrived. So how does that work? Seems like a fake emergency report for a slow Saturday. The other story I heard, will explain tomorrow. Not a big deal.

EARLIER:

In the last hour, TMZ reported that Paris Jackson attempted suicide in Los Angeles by slitting her wrists.

She — or someone with her phone– immediately denied it.

But on 5150 hold, you don’t get to keep your phone or be on social media. So there are a lot of questions right now.

The main thing is that Michael Jackson’s daughter needs love and support. On Twitter the last few days she’s been defending her father over the charges made in “Leaving Neverland.” She’s also been smoking a lot of dope, as she admits.

From mid December to mid January, Paris was in rehab. This was all leading up to the release of “Leaving Neverland.”

In early February I met her at a Grammy party. She was in great shape, very funny and with it. She is under a lot of pressure, that’s for sure. So let’s give her some space. I’ll keep updating.

Meantime, I’ve heard some other things from Jacksonland that are also disturbing. Checking on them now.

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