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Tom Petty Family: Dead Rock Star Toured 53 Dates with a Fractured Hip (And No One Stopped Him)

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Tom Petty Family: Dead Rock Star Toured 53 Dates with a Fractured Hip (And No One Stopped Him)

This is a shocker and a head scratcher: in a Facebook post yesterday, Tom Petty’s family says he toured 53 dates with a fractured hip. “On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication.”

The press has focused on Petty dying of accidental drug overdose. But maybe we should be asking why a 66 millionaire rock star was allowed to suffer that way? Why wasn’t the tour postponed? Was no on able to convince Tom Petty to call off the tour and get proper medical attention?

Something’s wrong here. It doesn’t make sense. “He didn’t want to disappoint the fans”? Most of his fans are having hip surgery!

Sounds like gross negligence on someone’s part.

Oscar Winner Mo’Nique Calls for Boycott of Netflix for Gender and Color Bias: She was Low-Balled on Offer for Comedy Special

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Oscar Winner Mo’Nique Calls for Boycott of Netflix for Gender and Color Bias: She was Low-Balled on Offer for Comedy Special

Oscar winner Mo’Nique says she’s calling for a boycott of Netlix for gender bias and color bias. In a video posted to Instagram, the comedic actress says she was severely low balled by Netflix in an offer for a comedy special that would have paid Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock millions. But Mo’Nique says she was offered just $500,000.

Curiously she says in the video, What about her resume? But she never says, I won an Oscar. It’s so weird. She won Best Supporting Actress for “Precious.” But she never embraced the Oscars. And now she kind of zips over this fact, which might help her. Anyway, if she’s got the story straight, she’s right. She should be paid as much as Amy and Chris.

#BOYCOTT#NETFLIX FOR #COLORBIAS AND #GENDERBIAS. PLEASE STAND WITH ME. I LOVE US.

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“House of Cards” Re-Set Without Kevin Spacey Looking for Children “Comfortable with Somewhat Suggestive Content”

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“House of Cards” Re-Set Without Kevin Spacey Looking for Children “Comfortable with Somewhat Suggestive Content”

“House of Cards” is revving up to shoot a new season without Kevin Spacey since he was removed from the show.

When we last saw Spacey’s Frank Underwood, he’d been removed from the presidency and replaced by his wife, Clare (Robin Wright). I think she cackled, “Now it’s my turn!”

Anything could happen to Frank now, and most people think he’ll be murdered. But I’m told a new casting call went out for three 11 year old children– a girl and two little boys. The main description of the characters is that they “must be somewhat comfortable with suggestive content.”

It does appear that the children as Frank, Clare, and one other little boy who meets with a violent end. It could be a flashback to the Underwoods’ days growing up in South Carolina. Maybe this will form the seeds of a mystery story line.

If “House of Cards” is looking for suggestive content, well…we won’t go there. Can’t wait to see what they do with this!

Conservative Murdoch Papers NY Post and Wall Street Journal Go Harder on Trump Than Anyone

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Conservative Murdoch Papers NY Post and Wall Street Journal Go Harder on Trump Than Anyone

Twenty five years ago, the NY Post trumpeted: Best Sex I’ve Ever Had! as Donald Trump advertised his prowess with mistress Marla Trump to Cindy Adams.

Friday morning, Trump’s sexual rating gets a C as mistress Stormy Daniels is pictured on the Post’s front page with the headline “Averagest Sex I’ve Ever Had”

How times have changed!

The biggest irony isn’t that Trump is no longer the stud he imagined himself. No, it’s hat Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post is knocking itself out to make fun of him.

At the same time, it’s Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal– the more serious paper– that’s gone after Trump with unusual enthusiasm this week over Stormy, the ‘shithole’ incident and everything else.

Tonight, the WSJ reports on how Stormy was paid by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to keep his mouth shut. Trump must be in shock that Murdoch has abandoned him.

It remains to be seen whether or not Fox News will acknowledge Stormy or any of these stories. They will be focused on Hillary Clinton’s emai server, as Fox has become the Nostalgia Network.

 

Clive Davis Grammy Party: The Invitation Is Here, the Guest List is Forming for the Hottest Ticket in Town

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Clive Davis Grammy Party: The Invitation Is Here, the Guest List is Forming for the Hottest Ticket in Town

The Clive Davis pre-Grammy party is here, it’s back in New York where it began. The invitation is off the hook, of course. It’s a black satin box with raised gold lettering. On the cover is the Empire State Building. Inside, it’s gold and mirrored with color photos of the famous people who’ve attended in Los Angeles for the last several years. The invite is hand-delivered, and it’s one of the best days of the year when the messenger buzzes and announces: “Clive Davis.”

And who’s coming? Every important person in music in New York, that’s who. Jay Z is being honored by Clive and NARAS, which means Neil Portnow will conduct that part of what is the best bar mitzvah in 50 states. And if Jay Z is coming, can Beyonce be far behind?

But I do expect to see Jennifer Hudson, Dionne Warwick, Alicia Keys, Fleetwood Mac (they’re being honored the night before at MusiCares), maybe Elton John and David Furnish, maybe Ed Sheeran, tons of media people from New York who don’t get to the west coast. The Broadway crowd should filter in around 11pm, which as we know from previous years, is the “early” part of the evening!

Clive keeps the performers a secret right until the last minute, so we’ll wait and see who is locked up. But imagine the pool of A list talent in New York who could show up– Sting, Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Valerie Simpson… the names boggle the mind.

So hang on. Grammy Week already looks like it’s going to be crazy great with events for the Billboard 100, for the great Tom Corson taking over at Warner Bros., for the Otis Redding Foundation at the Apollo, for the MusiCares night with Fleetwood Mac, and the Grammys themselves at Madison Square Garden. Monday January 29th no one will be at their desks in the record biz in NY– they’ll all be sleeping off the weekend!

The Tradition Continues… #PreGrammyGala

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Dylan Farrow’s Brother, Moses, Defends Charges of Molestation Against Woody Allen: “It simply never happened”

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Dylan Farrow’s Brother, Moses, Defends Charges of Molestation Against Woody Allen: “It simply never happened”

Moses Farrow has Tweeted out his response to sister Dylan’s accusations against their adopted father, Woody Allen.

Under the hashtag #truthislouder, Moses– a therapist and photographer– says: “It simply never happened.”

Moses Farrow has been trying on his own Twitter feed– @MosesFarrow– and in interviews to set the record straight about Woody, Mia, and his mother’s abuse of her children, her vendetta against Woody Allen. Gullible actors in recent days have “renounced” Woody and said they were turning their paychecks from his movies over to charities. How uninformed and silly of these people! They refuse to listen to Moses, read the reports, or ask why none of the Farrows address the current prison term of Mia’s brother for child molestation. It’s pathological, and starting to border on something else, I’m afraid. Hysteria, yes. Maybe more.

Broadway: “Hello, Dolly!” Without Bette Midler Already in Trouble with Big Blocks of Unsold Seats

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Broadway: “Hello, Dolly!” Without Bette Midler Already in Trouble with Big Blocks of Unsold Seats

Bette Midler is gone, and soon “Hello, Dolly!” may be, too.

Tony winner and beloved Broadway star Bernadette Peters begins performances on January 20th, taking over for Bette Midler. And while Peters may be a spectacular Dolly, it may not matter.

For nine months “Hello, Dolly!” broke Shubert Theater house records. But soon the news is going to be dire unless the New York Times decrees that Peters’ run is a must see attraction.

For example, a look at the seating chart on telecharge.com for January 31st at 8pm tells a particularly scary story. Big blocks of seats are open in the orchestra at much lower prices than during the reign of the Divine Miss M.

A week later, in February, things look the same or worse:

There’s a similar situation in the mezzanine and balcony, where the back half of each section is largely unsold.

My advice” better get in to see this production before the parade passes by!

What’s Up with Bruce Willis? MIA Action Star Has Made 8 Bad Movies in 3 Years, Total Critics Score 72

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What’s Up with Bruce Willis? MIA Action Star Has Made 8 Bad Movies in 3 Years, Total Critics Score 72

It’s time for a Bruce Willis Renaissance.

If you add up the critics score on Rotten Tomatoes of the 8 movies Willis has made since 2015, the total is 72.

Of course, some of them have 0’s– zeroes. That would include a new one scheduled for release somewhere tomorrow, called “Acts of Violence.” Remarkably, Willis, once the top grossing actor anywhere, is second billed. Some reviews say it’s a “paycheck” movie, although Willis– currently selling a New York aerie for $17 million– hardly needs a paycheck.

Where is Bruce Willis? Once a glib PR magnet, Willis has been slowly vanishing while he makes film after mind-numbingly bad film in which he co-stars with a gun, has little dialogue and a lot of explosions. I miss the fast-quipping Bruce of “Moonlighting” and “Die Hard” fame. I’ll bet others do, too.

Some of the movies on his imdb list may have gone straight to video. There’s no report of a box office release. His last run of movies that mattered in theaters and maybe to audiences was a trio in 2013– “Red 2,” “A Good Day to Die Hard,” and “GI Joe: Retaliation.” Not the stuff of Oscars, but still, something.

Of course, in there Willis made his Broadway debut in the poorly reviewed “Misery” for three months from November 2015 to February 16th. At the same time he was supposed to shoot Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” but dropped out or was let go after the first week. (Steve Carell replaced him.) Willis said he couldn’t concentrate on the play and deal with the movie.

Last March, Bruce did participate in a lively R&B concert at the Beacon Theater called Love Rocks. But since then, even with several stealth movies, he’s mostly been off the canvas save for a couple of Instagram posts from his wife. In one, he’s getting his fingernails painted by his young daughter.

Come back, Bruce! We need some wisecracks for 2018.

Woody Allen Responds to CBS This Morning Attack: “Farrow Family is Cynically Using Time’s Up”

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Woody Allen Responds to CBS This Morning Attack: “Farrow Family is Cynically Using Time’s Up”

Woody Allen is responding to Dylan Farrow’s attack today by CBS This Morning. I think he’s right. CBS News has simply taken Dylan’s side despite 1993 reports from Connecticut and NY State authorities saying that Woody never touched Dylan. Additionally, Gayle King never asks Dylan about her uncle, John Farrow, being in prison for child molestation. The interview, as Donald Trump says, is rigged. A complex trail of lies is distilled into a TV she says-he says, which is pretty sad for CBS News.


“When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New York State Child Welfare. They both did so for many months and independently concluded that no molestation had ever taken place. Instead, they found it likely a vulnerable child had been coached to tell the story by her angry mother during a contentious breakup.

“Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother doing exactly that – relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator. It seems to have worked – and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says.

“But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past. I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.”

Woody Allen

35 Years Later: Michael Jackson’s Daughter, Paris, Meets Paul McCartney, Source of MJ’s Income from 1985 til Death

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35 Years Later: Michael Jackson’s Daughter, Paris, Meets Paul McCartney, Source of MJ’s Income from 1985 til Death

A historic meeting on Tuesday night in Los Angeles: Paris Jackson met Paul McCartney. It’s 35 years since Paul and Paris’s dad, Michael Jackson, recorded together– and Paul mentioned to Michael that the Beatles catalog was for sale. It’s (roughly) 35 years since Michael called his lawyer, John Branca, who swooped in and bough the Lennon-McCartney songs for $47.5 million in 1985, thus creating Sony Music Publishing. And from that investment, Michael borrowed and borrowed and borrowed, spending like a drunken pirate, paying off settlements and odd deals until he was just about bankrupt. The wear and tear would lead him to agree to perform 20 shows in London, and then…For all 35 years Paul chased the catalog until now, he finally has it back, Michael is gone, and his estate no longer owns the catalog that weighed on him for a quarter century. Paris says she cried like a baby. I’ll bet Paul did, too.

i cried like a goddamn baby.

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