The Golden Globes are back on January 5th, 2025.
The host will be hot comic Nikki Glaser, who may have trouble restraining herself from poking fun at the crowd, or at the Globes themselves.
Glaser is very popular right now because she’s unafraid of criticism. So this should be something.
“Wolfs” is premiering at the Venice Film Festival September 1st. Only problem is, it’s no longer a theatrical film.
It seems like Sony has pulled “Wolfs” from its release schedule.
It’s also not available for advance ticket sales on Fandango.
The George Clooney-Brad Pitt buddy movie was supposed to play in theaters for one week beginning September 20th before going to the Apple TV platform.
Originally it was supposed to have a longer theater run. But now it’s not going to play in theaters at all. It will just head to Apple on September 27th.
“Wolfs” seems to have gone totally wrong despite having two huge movie stars.
There’s nothing for it on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. All that remains of it on social media are the trailers on YouTube.
With less than a month to go, you’d think there would be some sign of promotion for a September 20th movie.
“Wolfs” would have marked the first non Spider Man movie directed by Jon Watts in a decade.
EXCLUSIVE Almost all college students are on campus for the fall session this week.
But one is missing: Barron Trump. The 18 year old has yet to turn up anywhere. A lot of people are asking questions. It’s hard to hide a 6 foot 7 inch young man and his Secret Service attachment.
The strong betting is on Cornell University in upstate Ithaca, New York. This is an excellent spot to stash someone you want to get out of the way. Unless students sell him out, Barron would be safe from much scrutiny in Ithaca. If he were to go to school in Manhattan, however, it would be a press free-for-all.
Why Cornell especially? The word on social media is that Barron would go to the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
According to the Cornell website “Today,” the Dyson School is internationally renowned for its expertise in food and agricultural economics, management, environmental and resource economics, and international and development economics.”
It’s not an actual school, but a part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. It was born with a $25 million donation from John Dyson (class of 1965) in 2010, who named it in honor of his father.
Dyson, a rabid Republican, is former chairman of the New York Power Authority. How devoted is he to the GOP? This year alone Dyson — who also owns a winery — has donated $500,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund PAC, a Republican super fund. John Dyson named the school after his late father, Charles, who donated $5,000 to Cornell in 1962 to get him started.
Dyson has donated millions to Republican causes and candidates. On December 29, 2020 he gave $350,000 to the Georgia Victory Fund, which pushed the Big Lie about voting in that state, and supported then Senator Kelly Loeffler. She lost to now-Senator, Democrat Raphael Warnock in 2021. On December 9, 2020– three weeks before Dyson’s massive donation — Loeffler refused in her debate with Warnock to admit Donald Trump had lost the election.
Dyson is now chairman of Millbrook Capital Management. But he’s also a crony of Rudy Giuliani. From 1994 to 1996 he was one of Rudy’s deputy mayors. From 1996 to 2002, Dyson held a part-time position of Chairman of the Mayor’s Council of Economic Advisors.
During his short time as deputy mayor, Dyson got into trouble in The Bond Buyer– according to the New York Times — for using the word “watermelon” in discussing whether to hire a company owned by a black woman to market New York City’s bonds. He said, the city’s Comptroller “ought to know the difference between a bid and a watermelon.”
Dyson, of course, apologized the next day.His critics were skeptical. He said: “If someone takes this as a racial comment, I’m sorry for that. I apologize for anybody who felt that. I think my record of 20 years in public life shows that I’m not racially motivated one way or the other.”
But according to the Times, earlier in 1994, Dyson got into trouble from a memo he’d written to Rudy and Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers after a newspaper article asked whether they were capable of running a diverse city. “Do not worry,” he wrote. “Two white guys have been running this city of immigrants for over 200 years.”
Who better to make sure Barron is protected and isolated from controversy during his college years than John Dyson? Barron, get your number 2 pencils and three hole punch ready. Cornell is waiting.
Every politician wants Hamptons money.
Not from the celebrities, but from the Wall Street gang and old money crowd.
On Sunday, I got a call from people leaving the Hamptons that a gigantic cavalcade of black cars, helicopters, motorcycles and and even a helicopter were causing a scene coming into Southampton on Route 27.
That was blowhard JD Vance, making a spectacle of himself heading into a fundraiser thrown by Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets.
“You can’t believe what’s going on here,” my friends said. “Thirty cars! Everything is stopped!”
Meanwhile, very subtly, soon to be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff and former President William Jefferson Clinton were welcomed to a private estate in Sag Harbor last night.
Spies tell me Emhoff and Clinton made for a fun tag team, taking pictures with lots of well heeled locals after making erudite speeches. Emhoff called his wife, Kamala Harris, “a joyful warrior.” Clinton joked that he’d much prefer to be First Gentleman than President.
Hillary Clinton, who was on the invitation, demurred after testing positive with COVID.
Organizers expected to net $750,000. They wound up taking in twice as much, $1.5 million.
No celebrities, per se. But Clinton’s small team included Hillary’s chief, Huma Abedin. “She was a like a ghost,” said a source. “But she was watching.”
Emhoff is getting high marks on the road, charming audiences. The other candidate’s spouse, Melania Trump, is even more of a cypher however. She may be packing up Barron’s trunk for his college stay, which most now say is Cornell University in upstate Ithaca. He has to be stashed somewhere. More to come… Look for Melania to be a regular visitor in Ithaca!
Kevin Costner really blew it.
He thought “Yellowstone” would die without his character as he went off to make his “Horizon” movies.
I wrote here a long time ago that “Yellowstone” could go on without him. Now Puck newsletter also confirms that Taylor Sheridan’s hit cowboy drama will go on.
Meantime, “Horizon” is a total dud. Warner Bros. will probably stream the second movie after the first one tanked. There’s no deal for the third and fourth parts, which no one wants anyway.
I’m told Costner’s John Dutton will get get killed, and there will be a murder mystery for the next season.
This makes sense. Dutton was a villain, so everyone will be a suspect. Sheridan will likely introduce a new character, played by a star, who will come to take Costner’s place as the Hollywood draw.
“Yellowstone” is a brand with millions of viewers. Paramount and Sheridan weren’t going to just shut it down after all that investment of time, money, marketing. Will it pick up steam again? Absolutely. Soap ensembles work like that.
Costner overplayed his hand. Live and learn!
If an actor has been on a soap for 20 years, it’s a big deal.
Kelly Monaco has played Sam McCall for 21 years on “General Hospital.” She’s enormously popular with fans, and has around 590,000 followers on social media. She’s been nominated twice for Daytime Emmy awards.
But news broke yesterday that Monaco has been let go. Her character will be killed off this fall. Fans are outraged, and it does seem pretty mean of ABC.
“General Hospital” is suffering in ratings, though, and budgets are down. A lot of the cast is off contract, appearing at the whim of the producers. The permanent cast is taking on some big ticket favorites from the past, so someone had to go. And Monaco lost the bet.
The two other broadcast soaps, “The Young and the Restless” and “Bold and the Beautiful” on CBS are on equally shaky ground as network TV contracts. “Days of our Lives” on Peacock costs very little (and it looks like it) but chugs along. The cast there has no doubt taken pay cuts as well.
Monaco will no doubt turn up somewhere else soon. But the sting for “General Hospital” fans will last a long time.
MONDAY UPDATE 12:25 PM
Truth Social keeps dropping, falls to $20.99. We’ll see how low it can go today…
When you wake up Tuesday morning, Donald Trump’s Truth Social stock will be in free fall.
Yesterday, Trump Media closed at its 52 week low, at $21.66. It was down from Friday by almost 5%.
Trump Media stock is kind of a bellwether about the presidential campaign. But instead of indicating a growing popularity. the stock price is showing the incursion Kamala Harris is making into Trump’s run.
Will it fall more today? Trump Media usually gets knocked off a cliff, then plateaus for a few days before its next trip downward.
Maybe Trump’s possible call off of the September 10th debate with Harris caused the drop. Or maybe it’s just because Truth Social is a sewage that even Ed Norton of “The Honeymooners” wouldn’t work in.
Donald Trump is so scared of debating Kamala Harris he’s looking for any way to get out of it.
He’s posted to his Truth Social that he might not show up on ABC on September 10th. Maybe Kamala can talk to a cardboard cut out.
Trump writes: “I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network? Will panelist Donna Brazil give the questions to the Marxist Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala’s best friend, who heads up ABC, do likewise. Where is Liddle’ George Slopadopolus hanging out now? Will he be involved. They’ve got a lot of questions to answer!!! Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN? Stay tuned!!!”
He’s panicking. The flop sweat is running down his spray tanned cheeks. Very sad. He has no idea what the issues are, it’s too late to study, and he’s completely unprepared. All he has are stupid childish nicknames for everyone involved. He’s going to get an F, and his father can’t bail him out.
Robert Kennedy Jr’s campaign manager’s family would have been a great source of money for the conspiracy theorist candidate.
The campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, is also married to Kennedy’s son, Robert III. She’s a former CIA agent, and author of a book about her adventures in the organization.
You’d think she could convince her mother and stepfather to throw in a few bucks. It would be a likely ask since Amaryllis’s stepdad is billionaire Steven Rales.
Rales is worth $8.6 billion, according to reports. He’s the chairman of Danaher Corporation, which he founded with his brother, Mitchell. On the entertainment side, Rales also founded movie production company Indian Paintbrush, which releases high quality films like all of Wes Anderson’s movies since 2007. He recently bought Janus Films and the Criterion Collection.
But here’s the rub: Rales is also a hardcore Democratic donor. Kennedy is the last person to whom he’d made a political donation, and he’s made plenty, Recipients of his largesse include Maine’s Dem senator Angus King, the Democatic Party of Ohio, and Tim Ryan of Ohio, who lost his Senate seat to J.D. Vance.
Amaryllis’s mother, Lalage Rales, is also an active Democratic donor. She’s given to Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the America 2.0 PAC for Democrats, also Tim Ryan and several others. Both Raleses donated to Liz Cheney, one of the most outspoken Trump critics.
The Raleses sound pretty smart, and principled Thank goodness they aren’t Republicans, Kennedy would still be running for president. If he does become Trump’s running mate, don’t expect Kennedy to tap that source.