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The racist, misogynist antisemite won’t go away no matter how often he’s rejected.
Now Gibson — Trump’s Hollywood ambassador — stars in a piece of garbage called “Hunting Season.” The trailer shows off a startling amount of violence against women, with Gibson in his flannel shirted redneck mode.
Director is RJ Collins, going here as Raja Collins to sound exotic. LOL. His resume is one for the ages. His Rotten Tomatoes average is around Mel’s IQ: 35%.
Mel’s next movie is about Jesus, who would faint if he saw all the crap Gibson has made in a lifetime.
And that speaks volumes about what Anna Wintour has planned for the Conde Nast magazines.
Vogue’s cover is usually reserved for women. Also, it’s a fashion magazine.
But there is Chalamet, photographed by Vanity Fair’s Annie Leibovitz, promoting “Marty Supreme,” the movie that will take him back to the Oscars for the second year in a row.
What’s on Vanity Fair’s December cover? We’ll find out today, but last month was pop star Charlie XCX for no apparent reason.
VF should have had Chalamet. But they don’t. The question is: why? Is Vanity Fair going to get B list celebrities when it comes to these decisions?
And why isn’t the Vogue story called “Timmy Supreme” instead of the boring “Universe According to Timothee”?
Good for Vogue and the writer Mattie Kahn. Bad for Vanity Fair. The former is now edited by Chloe Malle, daughter of Candice Bergen and Louis Malle. The latter is edited by Wintour’s daughter’s school friend.
Jaafar Jackson, Michael’s nephew and son of Jermaine, plays Michael Jackson in the new movie, “Michael.”
Antoine Fuqua is the director. The movie is coming in April 2026 after tug of war of what it would be. Originally, the producers thought they’d discuss all of Michael’s literal trials and tribulations.
At that point they considered making a two part movie, like “Wicked.”
Now it’s one movie, and I hope it will just be about Michael’s music achievements in the 1980s. We don’t need to see what happened next, except in documentaries.
Donald Trump is giving himself a peace prize and a Kennedy Center honor.
In doing so, he’s upstaging the actual Kennedy Center Honors, which he claims to be hosting.
The Kennedy Center Honors are set for the weekend of December 5th. The parties are usually held over the weekend, and the live show is on Sunday — December 7th this year.
In early October, however, Trump already announced that pop opera singer Andrea Bocelli was coming to the White House to sing for him on December 5th. This was after, Bocelli mysteriously turned up at the Oval Office and sang impromptu.
But there are are no coincidences. That White House moment was a message we didn’t understand.
Now it seems that FIFA, the World Cup organization, is using the Kennedy Center on Friday, December 5th. They’re going to give a Peace Prize to Trump, who yearns for the Nobel Peace Prize the way the Coyote wants Road Runner.
How they’re going to have FIFA there while the Kennedy Center load-in is prepping for Sunday is anyone’s guess. Also, Trump should be rehearsing for his hosting gig, but you know, of course, that’s not happening. He will wing it, live. That’s must-see TV.
Meanwhile, when I spoke to some of the honorees’ insiders recently they knew nothing about Bocelli being involved that weekend. With Trump, who knows? Maybe Bocelli will get a surprise Kennedy Center honor!
It’s a free for all and a shitshow, typical Trump!
Thanks to Kaitlin Collins of CNN for bringing this to social media.
Donald Trump had someone print out a sign that says “The Oval Office” and tape it to the outside of The White House.
This is in case he forgets where The Oval Office is on the property.
Dementia patients will appreciate this touch.
Of course, Trump might not recognize the Oval Office since it’s been drenched in gold ornaments purchased at Target and Michael’s. It does resemble Mar-a-lago, and that may be the reason for all the fake gold in the first place. A dementia patient would be comforted by seeing a reminder of home.
The sign is so tacky, it looks like it’s also going to list the names of dentists working in the building.
Upstairs in the private quarters, I’m told Melania has all of her doors labeled with “Do Not Enter.”
Donald Trump is crowing this morning about his “60 Minutes” ratings on Sunday.
The newsmagazine scored 13 million viewers, the most since 2021.
But sorry, Donald. The reason for those ratings was the preceding show, the lead in on CBS.
That was the NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The game scored a record 30.8 million viewers.
So actually, the Trump interview was down 57% from the football game. More than half the people watching CBS tuned out rather than stick around to hear Trump lying like a rug to Norah O’Donnell.
“60 Minutes” on its best days can do around 9 million viewers, but 7 is the average for a promoted newsworthy show. To get 13 million, there has to be a big football game.
And do note: the game was a big hit despite the absence of Taylor Swift. She did not shuffle off to Buffalo!
Forget his two bestselling dozen albums, and sold out concert tours in stadiums and arenas all over the world, his top hits still in rotation all the time.
Bruce has also had a bestselling memoir, and a sold out run of a hit Broadway show. He’s won Oscars for his songs, not to mention Grammys.
So it must be odd for him to see the movie based on a chapter of his life collapse at the box office.
Scott Cooper’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere” should have been a hit. Jeremy Allen White, a star from “The Bear,” playing Springsteen as a young man. Oscar nominee, Tony winner Jeremy Strong as Bruce’s manager, Jon Landau. Cooper, who directed Jeff Bridges to an Oscar in “Crazy Hearts”: On paper, “Deliver Me” seemed like it would be huge.
What could go wrong?
Everything. Critics who were not avowed Springsteen lovers didn’t like it. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 59% rating. The movie addresses the making of Bruce’s “Nebraska” album in 1982. Bruce is depressed, agonizing over his next step. He’s going to make “Born in the USA,” but first he has to go through this creative catharsis.
A lot of the movie is Bruce brooding, retracing his life, having a therapy session. It’s not the wild, the innocent, and the E street shuffle. Nor is it Greetings from Asbury Park. It’s more who should I be now?
In the end, very little is delivered no matter how much Cooper tries to craft a beginning, middle, and up beat end.
The result is that the box office is $16.6 million in the US, $30.8 million worldwide. It may never hit $18 million in the US. “Deliver Me” cost $55 million.
It cost more than that. Everyone involved invested their heart and soul. Bruce has made countless appearances supporting it around the world. He’s been very Bruce, a total mensch.
“Nebraska” was not a hit in 1982, and few are nostalgic for it. A movie about “The Rising” — that would have been really interesting. A movie about Bruce falling in love with Patti Scialfa — okay. Anything about the making of the first three albums. “Nebraska” — acoustic, Dylanish, interior. No Clarence Clemons. It just didn’t work.
“Deliver Me” will still pick up some action from the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes. Its Oscar chances are fairly diminished, unfortunately. It may have a good life on streaming and on DVD.
Meantime, there’s an irony here. The original “Nebraska” album is number 13 on iTunes and 63 on amazon. Not bad. But the expanded box set, with the special “Electric Nebraska,” hasn’t caught on. It should have, and I don’t know why it didn’t. But it came right after the “Tracks II” box set, and that may have stretched budgets.
Try and see “Deliver Me from Nowhere” before it’s out of theaters. I loved it, but I wanted to. You may want to, also.
Chanel — the fashion house launched decades ago by Nazi sympathizer Coco Chanel — really wants to get in to Hollywood.
They’ve been spending like drunken French soldiers on leave, underwriting A list parties for a few years now, plying celebrities with booze and gourmet food and loaning out their wares.
Often they use London publicist Charles Finch to host parties for them, especially around the Oscars. They take over the Beverly Hills Hotel with velvet ropes and top security.
That’s all good, but I’m sure the celebrities aren’t aware that the IRS has revoked Chanel’s 501c3 status standing as a charity.
According to eintaxid.com: “The federal tax exemption for Fondation Chanel Inc was automatically revoked on 15 May, 2023 for not filing a form 990-series return or notice for three consecutive years. On 14 August, 2023 the IRS posted the notice of organization’s automatic revocation on IRS.gov.”
The last filing was for 2019-2020.
At that point, Fondation Chanel said it had a fair market value of $4,311,799. They had had revenue of $10.2 million and expenses that totaled $9.7 million.
They certainly had nothing to hide. The bulk of their expenses was to other charitable organizations around the world that came to $9.2 million.
But in the time since they became a Hollywood party thrower, Chanel has not again filed a form 990 with the IRS. Consequently, the revocation.
There are some clues about what’s happened to Fondation Chanel thanks to their reports to the British Charitable Commission. In their report to the UK, Fondation Chanel reported a drop in gross income from 2023 to 2023 from 100 million pounds to just 2.43 million. Meantime, total expenditures dropped from 25 million pounds to 19.7 million.
Today Chanel underwrote what looks like a blockbuster lunch in Hollywood for dozens of female celebs. The occasion was the Motion Picture Academy’s program to support emerging women filmmakers — a worthy cause. Some of the guests included Kate Hudson, Patty Jenkins, Felicity Jones, Riley Keough, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Emma Mackey, Leslie Mann, and Diane Warren. (There were a lot more.)
Meantime, the Fondation has slipped into the abyss, at least in the US where, according to the IRS, they are gone. Even though the New York office is still open, the foundation has moved its headquarters to London. In the consolidation, the French office, ironically, was closed.
Sunday night’s tussle between Norah O’Donnell and Donald Trump was a big success.
“60 Minutes” scored its highest numbers since 2021 with the Trump interview in which he lied, dodged, or hallucinated to every question.
Trump will crow that he “saved” the show, but the NFL lead in game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs insured the high numbers. The total was 13 million.
The Bills won their game, and O’Donnell bested Trump if only because she persevered in some kind of quest for the truth. If only she’d been tougher in getting answers and questioning Trump’s lies.
The producer of many, er, wild TV series may have finally hit bottom with a new show called “All’s Fair.”
So far, critics on Rotten Tomatoes have given it a zero.
Are we surprised? Kim Kardashian is the star. The Hollywood Reporter describes her as “Stiff and Affectless Without a Single Authentic Note.”
Kim stars as the owner an all-female law firm in Los Angeles.
The other lawyers are top notch actresses like Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, and Niecy Nash. Sarah Paulson, also a Murphy regular, is the actress who had to find out from Kardashian — in real life, during make up — that the 1969 Apollo moon shot was a fake. Paulson’s reaction was better than anything in the series.
But you can only cover up a mess with so much gilding. Kardashian is not an actress, she’s a social climbing celebrity whose entire career is built on dross.
So there you have it.
For Hulu, “All’s Fair” is a severe drop in quality. They produce Emmy nominated shows like “Only Murders in the Building” and “The Bear.”
Hulu is part of Disney, like FX, which is where Ryan Murphy’s shows usually air. They include things like “American Horror Story,” which also scrape by with preposterous premises and top notch actors. Kardashian was already in one of those.
The Times of London said: “It thinks it’s a feminist fable about spirited lawyers getting their own back on cruel rich men but is in fact a tacky and revolting monument to the same greed, vanity and avarice it supposedly targets.”
The UK Daily Telegraph: “Ryan Murphy is the high priest of tacky, tasteless television, and this year he has outdone himself with a show of mind-bending horror sure to trigger nightmares in the unsuspecting viewer.”
You can only get away with this stuff for so long, I guess.
keep refreshing…in case the Rotten Tomatoes rating could drop below zero!
