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OJ Simpson’s Murders Get Some Closure: Fred Goldman Gets $57 Mil Agreement from Killer Football Player’s Estate

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OJ Simpson’s Murders Get Some Closure: Fred Goldman Gets $57 Mil Agreement from Killer Football Player’s Estate

It’s only taken 31 years.

But Fred Goldman, father of OJ Simpson’s murder victim Ronald Goldman, has secured an agreement from Simpson’s estate

TMZ reports that the estate has agreed it owes Goldman $57 million for the civil judgement against Simpson.

The judgement, handed down in 1997, was for $31 million. But the Goldmans never saw any money. Neither did the family of Simpson’s ex wife, Nicole Brown.

With interest piling up for three decades, Goldman figured the Simpson estate owed him well over $100 million. But working with OJ’s estate lawyer, they agreed to $57 million.

Goldman won’t see anything like that in the end. Simpson’s net worth at death last year was said to be about $3 million. He was relying on his NFL pension and sales of merchandise. You may recall that a dispute over the latter sent him to jail for 9 years.

Ron Goldman was an innocent bystander, collateral damage to OJ Simpson’s rage induced murders. Simpson was acquitted in a mockery of a trial (lost decisively by Marcia Clark and Chris Darden). But he was found responsible for the deaths by a civil jury. Now he’s roasting in hell while his kids have to live with what he did to their mother.

It’s hard to believe now that a bunch of us spent 18 months on this horror story. Not only is Simpson, but so are great journalists (and friends) Dominick Dunne and Linda Deutsch. I really miss them. They would have had a ball with this latest episode.

And yes– I covered a story 31 years ago. I was in grade school!

“SNL” Next Show: Hosted By Melissa McCarthy, Musical Guest Dijon (Not Mustard) Mostly Unknown, Sold Few Records

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“SNL” Next Show: Hosted By Melissa McCarthy, Musical Guest Dijon (Not Mustard) Mostly Unknown, Sold Few Records

The next episode of “Saturday Night Live” comes on December 6th.

The hilarious Melissa McCarthy is the host.

Musical guest is an artist named Dijon. It’s an odd choice. Not a mustard, Dijon is an indie artist not known to most people. He’s only around 300,000 records over his career, most thanks to streaming.

Dijon’s one non hit, called “The Dress,” was released four years ago.

Clearly, Lorne Michaels is not worried about ratings. Already this season he allowed Role Model to be booked. The guy was pretty bad, and so were the numbers.

Will Dijon suddenly catch on? Or will the skewing older audience just tune him out? I guess we’ll see.

PS I can’t believe this guy doesn’t have a song called “Grey Poupon.”

Tonight’s episode with Glen Powell and Olivia Dean was very good. The show has improved over the last three installments. The new kids are working out well. Ashley Padilla, who with the show last year, has blossomed into a star. (No offense to Chloe Fineman or Sarah Sherman, already stars.)

Timothee Chalamet’s Clever Send Up of Zoom Marketing Meeting Suggests a New Generation of Oscar Campaigning (Watch Video)

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Timothee Chalamet’s Clever Send Up of Zoom Marketing Meeting Suggests a New Generation of Oscar Campaigning (Watch Video)

The marketing campaign for “Marty Supreme” is going to be a lot different than what we’re used to.

Star Timothee Chalamet — in the mix for Best Actor at all awards shows — has posted a hilarious video to Instagram.

It’s a parody of a marketing meeting between the star and his team. At first you’re not sure if it’s real or a send up. But then it clearly is satire, and deftly done.

I’m told that Chalamet wrote the piece and cast it with actors and directed it himself.

Chalamet turns 30 next month. He’s the youngest actor vying for awards this year and represents a new generation. I’ll bet the “Marty Supreme” campaigns are going change our whole perspective.

My favorite moments — Chalamet introducing the word “fruitionalize” and suggesting someone could “gain a new arm intellectually.”

Timothee has seen enough of Hollywood in the last decade to realize how ridiculous of all this is. He wants “Marty Supreme” marketed like “Barbie,” which he says was yellow. He instructs the team to paint Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower orange, like Marty’s ping pong balls in the movie. The best part are the team members agreeing with everything he says.

And you thought “The Studio” was funny!

Trump Turns On MTG Calling Her Lunatic, Disillusioned MAGA Rep Claims Death Threats Inspired by Former Political Idol

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Trump Turns On MTG Calling Her Lunatic, Disillusioned MAGA Rep Claims Death Threats Inspired by Former Political Idol

The story of Marjorie Taylor Greene was not one anyone could have predicted.

The Georgia congresswoman was all MAGA, devoted to Donald Trump and everything he stood for. She came across as a lunatic who spewed crazy, sometimes antisemitic, rhetoric like accusing Jews of controlling the weather with “space lasers.”

Everyone hated her.

Then things began to change. Her children needed health insurance. Her constituents couldn’t afford groceries. And something happened in the Jeffrey Epstein story that triggered her. Trump wasn’t opening the Epstein files. He was endorsing pedophilia and rape. MTG started to lose it.

Today she writes that since breaking with Trump she’s getting death threats. She’s actually blaming him.

Her post begins: “

I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. The man I supported and helped get elected. Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now. This time by the President of the United States.”

Trump is so outraged at her for questioning his policies, he’s turned against her. He wrote today:” I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia.”

He continues: “I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”

Could MTG be Trump’s Achilles heel? Is her awakening to his own lunacy going to bring him down? Will she become a Democrat, or work within the GOP to destroy him? The discourse is utterly fascinating. MTG could be the largest crack in Trump”s wall of tyranny. He refers in his tirades to Greene appearing on “The View,” which she did without incident.

Now Greene’s X account is filled with protests against Trump, who Greene is still also trying to placate. She can’t figure out what to do or how to react to Trump? Is her MAGA alliance really over? Will her supporters and voters accept her without Trump? Can she convince them that he’s ruining the country and that she’s now standing for truth and justice?

We join this program in progress. A couple of years ago, MTG was so crazy I blocked her on Twitter. I’ve just now welcomed her back. For the moment.

Box Office: Now You See It, Now It’s Gone as New Releases “Running Man,” Sleight of Hand Barely Register Friday While We Wait for “Wicked”

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Box Office: Now You See It, Now It’s Gone as New Releases “Running Man,” Sleight of Hand Barely Register Friday While We Wait for “Wicked”

Friday box office with Thursday previews was an issue of now you see it, now you don’t.

Numbers failed to materialize for “Now You See It” Part 3, or for “Running Man.”

We’re looking at $12 million and $10 million weekends, respectively.

That is Deadsville.

The whole box office is asleep.No buzz on anything.

The wait for “Wicked: For Good,” and “Marty Supreme” is now getting tense.

There’s just nothing happening. It’s a snooze.

Small releases like “Bugonia” and “Deliver Me from Nothing” are not amping up.

Things are so bad that Universal has anniversary runs of “Back to the Future” and the original “Wicked” lodged in the theaters.

SPC’s “Nuremberg” should be doing more, but it’s just lying there.

“Frankenstein” is doing business or did, but Netflix doesn’t report numbers and now Guillermo del Toro’s fine film is playing on the streaming platform. So much for that.

I guess “Jay Kelly” is out there somewhere. A top film for the year, but again, it’s Netflix, so no reporting.

Last week’s horror film, “Predator: Badlands,” was down 78% from last Friday, so that novelty has passed as well.

Tumbleweeds blowing past the popcorn stands…

Grrrr….

Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” Topping Out at 5 Million Copies Sold Including Streaming, But Second in Overall Sales This Year to Morgan Wallen

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Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” Topping Out at 5 Million Copies Sold Including Streaming, But Second in Overall Sales This Year to Morgan Wallen

Taylor Swift’s “Life of a Showgirl” run is pretty much over.

Having sold over 4 million copies in its first week, “Showgirl” will likely top out at 5 million when all is said and done.

It’s been a great run but this past week “Showgirl” sold just 109,000 copies, mostly of all it from streaming. Just 17,000 were paid downloads, CDs, or LPs.

“Showgirl” had one big hit, “The Life of Ophelia,” and one minor one called “Opalite.” Because Swift prevented downloading of individual tracks from iTunes for the first two weeks, all sales went to the total album.

But it’s all over now. Total Taylor sales including streaming for this year are 4.9 million. Of that only 1 million was anything other than “Showgirl.”

She’s literally exhausted the audience for number of copies that could be sold. And it’s likely her total is actually half, with many customers buying two versions of the album.

Swift has swallowed the record business whole, devoured it really.

The irony is, Morgan Wallen has outsold Swift this year — 7.8 million including streaming. His album, “I’m the Problem,” registered 4.5 million.

Of course, no one wants to give credit to Wallen for anything. He was “cancelled” long ago and didn’t get any Grammy nominations this year (Swift is eligible next year).

Elsewhere on the iTunes album top 50 album, there’s Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours,” Mariah Carey’s Christmas album, and Elton John’s “Diamonds” box set. The latter is the real winner, since it’s a box set and it never stops selling. God bless.

Coming November 21st: the Beatles’ Anthology set, remastered with a new 4th chapter. The sound is amazing, it’s worth buying again if you got it 30 years ago. Nothing “new” as in undiscovered, but terrific unheard versions of old songs.

SAG Awards Rebranding to Actors Awards, Golden Globes In More Trouble as Controversy Swirls Around Podcast Awards

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SAG Awards Rebranding to Actors Awards, Golden Globes In More Trouble as Controversy Swirls Around Podcast Awards

Awards season is coming, and there are some issues and news.

First the Screen Actors Guild awards — known as the SAG Awards — are rebranding for absolutely no reason.

Now they’re going to be called The Actors Awards. Go figure. Jobeth Williams, head of SAG right now, says this is to match their statue. Makes no sense, but no one asked anyone.

Second, the Golden Globes. Even with the Hollywood Foreign Press gone, the Globes look for trouble. Both Puck and The Ankler newsletters are hot on their trail for adding a category called Best Podcast.

According to the reports, amplified today in Page Six, Penske Media is selecting nominees for this category based on popularity numbers from their own rankings. So it’s not independent. On top of that, the reports say that the nominees are encouraged to advertise in Penske publications to Golden Globes voters.

The Globes and Luminate are owned by Penske, as are Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline.

CBS is the Globes network now. They were years ago until CBS kicked them out for shenanigans with grift and swag. For decades after, the Globes were on NBC, until they ousted them for not having Black members and also financial mismanagement.

Now CBS is owned the Ellisons, so their standards might be lower. But the real CBS might have questioned this latest ripple. According to the reports, Penske has been heavily courting podcasters like Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly so they will bring their conservative followers to the show. Imagine a room of Hollywood liberal heavyweights cheek by jowl with those types. LOL.

Page Six is also complaining that they’ve been cut out of press coverage of the Globes which now favor the Penske publications. I’ve already been told unofficially that I can’t cover them either. For years during the Hollywood Foreign Press Association run, only HFPA photographers could take pictures. The whole idea of the regime change was to open up the Globes and make them democratic. Now it seems it’s worse than ever.

Disappointing to say the least.

Anyway, the Critics Choice Awards are Sunday, January 4th on the CW Network.

“Ordinary” Singer Alex Warren Announces Tour with Bizarre Cringe Video Featuring Jennifer Aniston and An F-Bomb Dropping Child

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“Ordinary” Singer Alex Warren Announces Tour with Bizarre Cringe Video Featuring Jennifer Aniston and An F-Bomb Dropping Child

What is this exactly?

Somehow, mediocre pop singer Alex Warren got TV and movie star Jennifer Aniston and actor Max Greenfield (from “The Neighborhood”) to appear in a commercial for his first tour.

Warren’s had one hit all year, called “Ordinary,” which pretty much sums it up.

In the courtroom drama video, Aniston plays a judge. Warren is being sued by a child resembling Little Orphan Annie who says he’s abandoning him to go on the road. She calls him a “little bitch” and drops an F bomb.

The whole concept is to play on the fact that both of Warren’s parents are dead in real life. It’s played for laughs! WTF? It’s not funny. The tour is actually called “Little Orphan Alex.”

Who paid for this thing?

John Travolta Still Giving Thousands of Dollars to Scientology Every Year from Dead Son’s Not for Profit

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Is John Travolta still in Scientology?

Oh yes.

The former movie star — now making straight to video “D” movies — has been doling out money to Scientology for years.

The known donations from his the not for profit he set up in memory of late son, Jett Travolta. The irony is that for years Jett was never treated for autism because Scientology dened its existence. Travolta and late wife Kelly Preston said Jett suffered from a disease caused by home cleaning fluids.

Jett fell, hit his head and died on January 2, 2009 on a boat parked in the Bahamas. He was being looked after by a male nanny who was also a wedding photographer.

According to the Form 990s for the Jett Travolta Foundation, the one time Vinnie Barbarino gave them $5,000 in 2023 and 2022, as well as the last several years. In 2021, the number rose to $15,875.

As the years have passed, Travolta’s charitable giving has dwindled almost to just sending money to Scientology from the Jett account.

So don’t think for a minute Travolta has hung up his Xenu shoes.

Everybody Up! Listen to the Rolling Stones New “Shame, Shame, Shame” from Remixed “Black and Blue” 50th Anniversary Set

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Everybody Up! Listen to the Rolling Stones New “Shame, Shame, Shame” from Remixed “Black and Blue” 50th Anniversary Set

“Shame Shame Shame” was a hit by Shirley & Co at the height of the disco era in 1975.

The Rolling Stones recorded it but never released it before now. It’s part of their 50th anniversary edition of “Black and Blue.”

The song references to two prior classic R&B hits, “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show” by the Honey Cone, and William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful for What You Got.”

The Stones’ version should get everyone out on the dance floor. I want to hear a mash up of this and the original ASAP!

Also included in the new box set is the unreleased “I Love Ladies.”

There are also four unreleased instrumental tracks featuring guitarists who were trying out to join the Stones after the departure of Mick Taylor. Ronnie Wood got the job, but you can hear the auditions of Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Jeff Beck, and Robert A. Johnson.

Jeff Beck could have been in the Stones!

There were two hit singles from the album: “Fool to Cry” and “Hot Stuff.” Plus “Memory Motel,” named for the still there and legendary Montauk motel. These days it’s a club and a living museum that hosts crowds of unruly young people all summer.

Viva the Rolling Stones! Videos below. And after that, all the track listing info.

Release Formats Include:

5LP Super Deluxe Box Set
4CD Super Deluxe Box Set
Limited Edition 5LP Marbled Vinyl Super Deluxe Box Set
2LP / 2CD (Album + Outtakes & Jams)
1LP / 1CD (2025 Steven Wilson Mix)
1LP Zoetrope Vinyl
TRACKLISTING

1CD – STEVEN WILSON REMIX 2025

Hot Stuff
Hand Of Fate
Cherry Oh Baby
Memory Motel
Hey Negrita
Melody
Fool To Cry
Crazy Mama

1LP – STEVEN WILSON REMIX 2025

Side A

Hot Stuff
Hand Of Fate
Cherry Oh Baby
Memory Motel

Side B

Hey Negrita
Melody
Fool To Cry
Crazy Mama

2CD

Disc 1: Steven Wilson Remix 2025

Hot Stuff
Hand Of Fate
Cherry Oh Baby
Memory Motel
Hey Negrita (Inspiration by Ron Wood)
Melody (Inspiration by Billy Preston)
Fool To Cry
Crazy Mama

Disc 2: Outtakes and Jams

I Love Ladies
Shame, Shame, Shame
Chuck Berry Style Jam (With Harvey Mandel)
Blues Jam (With Jeff Beck)
Rotterdam Jam (With Jeff Beck & Robert A. Johnson)
Freeway Jam (With Jeff Beck)

2LP

Disc 1: Steven Wilson Remix 2025

Side A

Hot Stuff
Hand Of Fate
Cherry Oh Baby
Memory Motel

Side B

Hey Negrita (Inspiration by Ron Wood)
Melody (Inspiration by Billy Preston)
Fool To Cry
Crazy Mama

Disc 2: Outtakes and Jams

Side A

I Love Ladies
Shame, Shame, Shame
Chuck Berry Style Jam (With Harvey Mandel)

Side B

Blues Jam (With Jeff Beck)
Rotterdam Jam (With Jeff Beck & Robert A. Johnson)
Freeway Jam (With Jeff Beck)

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