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If you bought tickets to tonight’s NBA finals and your credit card has a New York zip code, you could be out of luck.
The very lame San Antonio Spurs are warning on Ticketmaster they can cancel any purchase of tickets with a zip code outside of 150 miles from their sad little town.
Remember the Alamo? Not really. Who cares? That’s all they have down there besides spite.
See the warning from Ticketmaster below. After we destroy this team, let’s not allow anyone from San Antonio to visit New York again. They can stay home and watch lizards roam around. No Broadway, no sports, no nothing.
Timothee Chalamet has really learned the Art of the Shill.
The 30 year old three time Oscar nominee is now starring in a commercial for betting site, Kalshi.
On Kalshi, you can place bets on thousands of different things that might happen, like if Chalamet will ever win an Oscar. Or stop dating a Kardashian.
Chalamet isn’t lacking for money. He’s been paid millions for starring in the “Dune” series, and “Wonka,” and has maybe made money from being a rapper.
But selling out is the way of the Kardashians, and he’s learned from the best.
Meantime, all those “Marty Supreme” jackets are just sitting on ebay, relics of a passing moment in the culture.
UPDATE SAT MORNING: “Disclosure Day” made $13 million on Friday for an opening Thurs-Fri of $19 million. The suggestion is a $45 million open weekend, one of the lowest in the Spielberg oeuvre.
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“Disclosure Day” may be the most alien film in Steven Spielberg’s catalog.
The really terrific story of UFO info finally being divulged to the world went over as a dud last night at the box office.
The film made just $6.5 million in previews.
Tonight, if the film makes $10 million, and then does the same Saturday and Sunday, it will be a historic flop.
Timing is everything in the movie release world, and this is not a great weekend for a hit. The weather is stormy. (An ironic problem since Emily Blunt plays a metereologist.) The World Cup has begun in soccer. And tomorrow night, the NBA finals with the Knicks and Spurs will draw maybe 25 million viewers.
“Disclosure Day” also has problems at Rotten Tomatoes. Reviews are at 82% from critics, and a low 74% om the audience meter. I’m surprised, because I really liked it. But audiences are demanding more from movies now than ever before. “Disclosure Day,” unlike other Spielberg classics, may not feel urgent.
We’ll see what happens next. But do go see “Disclosure Day” tonight. Emily Blunt is sensational and the rest of the cast — Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Josh O’Connor– are outstanding!
Every year without fail, “All I want for Christmas” produces a lot of income for Mariah Carey.
Her new records don’t sell, but “All I Want” is a perennial.
So are “Hero,” and “One Sweet Day,” which she sang with BoyzIIMen.
All those songs were written by Walter Afanasieff, her longtime collaborator and producer.
Afansieff was honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame last night in New York. Guess who didn’t show up, forget about perform? Mariah Carey.
Maybe Mariah was upset because she was inducted into the SHOF in 2022, when a lot of people including this column pointed to Afanasieff as the true composer of her hits.
Or maybe she doesn’t like splitting royalties with him.
Mariah’s absence reminds me of when Madonna didn’t mention any of her collaborators when she was inducted into the SHOF. She also didn’t show up Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, writers of “Like a Virgin,” when it was their turn.
Where could Mariah have been last night? She’s not on tour, and she’s not recording anything vital. She showed up recently at an event for the Gucci cruise line, but of course she was paid to sing — and not well — for the fashion company.
Walter deserved better. Instead, the SHOF was only able to come up with a singer named Shelea, who seems nice but no one knows.
Meantime, as we head into the fall and Christmas season, all Mariah will want is Afanasieff’s royalties.
Steven Spielberg inducted Taylor Swift into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. (See a clip from his speech and her 20 minute acceptance below.)
The two have never worked together. It was unclear how they knew each other.
Swift explained to the surprised audience: “A few months ago when the Songwriters Hall of Fame asked me about my heroes and the creatives who shaped my storytelling and who I might want to present this award to me, I said Steven’s name. And about an hour later to my absolute delight, I ended up on the phone with him and his legendarily effervescent wife, Kate Capshaw, who is here tonight. And he was telling me yes, absolutely he would be thrilled to be here.”
Spielberg is promoting “Disclosure Day,” so this was the highest profile thing he could do tonight.
It’s a lovely speech. Spielberg said: “Tonight is the recognition that while she wrote You Belong With Me in the most profound way, we belong to her.”
Newish act Sombr performed a couple of Swift’s songs during the ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Swift, however, did not perform, although she did perform two nights before at the Disney premiere in LA of “Toy Story 5.”
She said that she had blown out her voice screaming at the Knicks game on Wednesday night.
PS One of tonight’s honorees was Walter Afanasieff, who’s written or co-written several Mariah Carey hits including “All I Want for Christmas.” Carey was not present at the ceremony.
By now everyone has seen Taylor Swift and her buddies, the Haim sisters, jumping around and dancing at last night’s Knicks game.
Many wondered — including an announcer — why the sudden interest in the Knicks? In her life, Taylor has only been to three other Knicks games and only one at home.
Taylor was in the stands at MSG twice in October-November 2014 — a dozen years ago. The third game she went to was in Cleveland because fiancee Travis Kelce is such a fan of the Cavaliers.
I can tell you there was more going on last night than dancing to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” Taylor was actually checking out her wedding venue.
Yes, despite my personal doubts, I’m hearing from MSG that the wedding to Kelce is really taking place in this cavernous space. The Haims are bridesmaids. (They’re also singing tonight at the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the nearby Marriott Marquis Hotel.)
Swift had courtside seats last night, too, because obviously she has a deal with MSG. And this was a way to get a rare view from the floor seats, where the wedding will take place, rather than the stage, where she performs.
As others have pointed out, the Garden is not booked to the public from June 29th until after July 4th. The wedding will use the VIP entrance on 8th Avenue, not the one from the front. And using the stage that means there could be quite a show after the ceremony. Lucky for Taylor, Jack Antonoff and the Bleachers are free that day. So are the Dessner Brothers and The National.
At the Garden, by the way, I’m told all of the staff is now talking about the wedding constantly. The presumed date is Friday, July 3rd.
It’s good news and bad news for this year’s Tony Awards.
Ratings were the same as last year – 5 million viewers.
The difference is that this year there was no competition at all for the CBS special. No sports, no specials, nothing even on cable that could cause a distraction.
The actual number should have been closer to 8 million, say TV industry insiders.
The 5 million, same as 2025, at least held the increase from a low of 3.5 in 2024.
According to available data, the Tonys started strong, but audience started tuning out around 9 pm — when the “Cats: Jellicle Ball” number began.
This year’s show was a little different than in the past. New producers tried to shake things up by delivering the awards in a pedestrian process. The first award went to John Lithgow, Best Actor in a Play. From then on, there was no order to the prizes. The show didn’t build up at all, but careened around like a drunk playwright at Sardi’s.
Some say it might have been smarter to feature host Pink more in that first hour. Her performance with the cast of “Chicago,” which came as numbers were fading, was a highlight of the evening. But by then, viewership was way under 4 million.
Another problem was a general lack of mainstream celebrities. Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell were the most accessible Broadway names on stage. But why didn’t Daniel Radcliffe and Mariska Hargitay — each involved in the same one-actor show right now — present together? And why was Megan Thee Stallion so heavily promoted? A lot of it was strange. Why can’t the Tonys lure back big names like Bette Midler and Mandy Patinkin? And where’s Mr. Broadway himself, Hugh Jackman?
Well, it’s done now. Pink gets an A but the show could have used some more juice.
