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Unhealth Czar RFK Jr Promoting Son’s Fiancee, Brazilian Pop Singer’s New Knock Off Disco Single on Twitter: Did She Get Her Shots?

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Unhealth Czar RFK Jr Promoting Son’s Fiancee, Brazilian Pop Singer’s New Knock Off Disco Single on Twitter: Did She Get Her Shots?

Nutty anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. has a new gig.

He’s promoting a knock off disco single from his son’s fiancee, a Brazilian pop singer.

Giulia Be is here with “Fool for Love” which sounds like it was made with AI from the shavings of a thousand disco songs. (Crystal Water “Gypsy Woman” soundalike comes to mind.)

Her intended husband is Conor Kennedy, who dated Taylor Swift in a Mrs. Robinson type relationship when he was in high school. (No one asks Taylor about that now.) Not sure what Conor does besides date pop stars.

Giulia is an immigrant, presumably here on a visa and looking for a green card or an American husband. We don’t know if she’s been vaccinated or if ICE is aware of her presence in the USA. And it won’t matter because she’s found the right family to hang with.

Video below. Not filmed at a Hyannisport sleepover.

Box Office: “Regretting You,” Panned Romcom Not About Paramount Being Bought by Skydance, Is Number 1 with $5.2 Million

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Box Office: “Regretting You,” Panned Romcom Not About Paramount Being Bought by Skydance, Is Number 1 with $5.2 Million

The Friday box office numbers are in.

“Regretting You,” a romcom from Paramount not about the studio’s take over by Skydance and David Ellison is number 1.

Total yesterday was $5.2 million. Allison Williams and Dave Franco are the stars. Josh Boone is the director.

“Regretting You” is one of those Colleen Hoover books, like “It Ends With Us.” Hoover is the beef jerky of fiction right now, more popular in airports than neck pillows.

The movie has been totally panned by critics, has a 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. Who cares? It’s about mopey teenagers, a subject that never goes away.

The success of this movie should underline why Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are still in a war worse than the one in Ukraine. Baldoni owns the rights to Hoover’s “It Starts with Us.” Lively wants it.

Not great news for Bruce Springsteen on his biopic, “Deliver Me from Nowhere.” The Scott Cooper movie is turning out be like an Amazon delivery to a non doorman building. It’s missing.

Total take is $3.5 million for Thursday and Friday, which means that $10 million may not be attainable this weekend. A sold B+ Cinemascore, There’s a similar — 88% — audience ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. Go see this movie! Awards are in the offing.

“Bugonia” opened in 17 theaters and made $320,000. Mostly bald people in the audience. I haven’t seen it so I can’t tell you anything. A Twitter reader told me that dialing a push button phone was a plot point.

As for Bruce, this has been an exceptional period for releases of unheard material. The “Tracks II” box set is amazing. Now I’m loving “Electric Nebraska,” with the E Street Band version of the original acoustic album. This is the album Bruce is writing in “Deliver Me.”

Here’s “Atlantic City” in all its glory.

Taylor Toppled: Swift’s “Life of a Showgirl” Beaten on iTunes Album Chart by Brandi Carlile, Singles Chart by Megan Thee Stallion

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Taylor Toppled: Swift’s “Life of a Showgirl” Beaten on iTunes Album Chart by Brandi Carlile, Singles Chart by Megan Thee Stallion

Taylor Swift has been toppled.

At least on the iTunes chart.

Swift’s 4.3 million copies-sold “Life of a Showgirl” is no longer number 1 on the iTunes album chart.

Her song, “The Fate of Ophelia,” has dropped to number 2 on the iTunes singles chart.

The new number 1 album is Brandi Carlile’s “Returning to Myself.”

The new number 1 single is Megan Thee Stallion’s “Lover Girl.”

On hitsdailydouble.com, “Showgirl” had sales of 199,000 this past week, dropping 41%. It’s not like the album is done. It could finish with close to 5 million total in the next few months.

But right now it’s as if every human being in San Francisco had some iteration of the “Showgirl” album. They have a population of 4.5 million. The country of Panama also would be equal. (Remember when Trump was going to take over the Panama Canal?)

The “Showgirl” vinyl LP is the best selling record on amazon.com.

Taylor is still holding strong on the Spotify top 15 streaming chart, however. Those girls are just pushing play over and over all day long.

All this despite the album containing a number of songs nicked from other artists. Who cares, right? Just enjoy!

PS Want to hear a cool pop album by a female artist? Try Lily Allen’s “West End Girl.” It will blow your mind. How about a male artist? Tame Impala’s new record. They are so much better.

Taylor Swift Fans Discover New Song “Elizabeth Taylor” is Recycled from 1997 Backstreet Boys Song Also by Max Martin (Listen)

Exclusive: Kennedy Center Honors Six Weeks Away: No Official Producer Set, May Be Upstaged by Andrea Bocelli, Plus Shutdown Affecting Ticket Sales

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Exclusive: Kennedy Center Honors Six Weeks Away: No Official Producer Set, May Be Upstaged by Andrea Bocelli, Plus Shutdown Affecting Ticket Sales

As you might imagine, things at the Kennedy Center are a mess.

The Kennedy Center Honors tapes in six weeks on Sunday, December 7th. According to sources, no official producer has been named for the telecast.

Both White Cherry Entertainment and Done and Dusted, the two companies that alternate producing the telecast, are out.

“I can’t even imagine what that show will be like,” an insider told me.

One name that’s come up is Robert Deaton and George Flanegin, of Deaton Flanigen Productions in Nashville. Highly regarded, Deaton-Flanigen is already pretty busy next month: they produce the live broadcast of the Country Music Awards on November 19th. That would give them two weeks including Thanksgiving to put together the Kennedy Center Honors.

“They could do it,” says an expert on TV specials. “The question is, Would they?” I’ve left a message for them in Nashville.

The Kennedy Center honorees this year are George Strait, KISS, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, and Sylvester Stallone. For first time producers in the facility, they would be handful. Plus, Donald Trump has declared that he will host the show, whatever that means. If Deaton-Flanegin is the producer, they could at least grab talent from the CMAs for George Strait.

The Kennedy Center Honors weekend also involves a number of events for the honorees including a brunch, a State Department dinner, and so on. I’m told that none of the usual invitees from previous years have received any information on where, when, or if those traditional parties are happening.

On top of that, faux opera singer Andrea Bocelli has been set to perform at the White House on Friday, December 5th, potentially upstaging the Kennedy Center Honors. (This is the reason Bocelli was at the Oval Office recently. He can’t see all the cheap gold ornaments that’s been glued everywhere.)

Meantime, the regular Kennedy Center schedule of shows, much downsized since Trump took over, is not having a great time. The government shutdown has hit local potential ticket buyers hard. There are plenty — and I mean plenty — of seats available for every show from the National Opera’s “Aida” to touring Broadway musicals. Government workers aren’t being paid, or even being laid off. So attending theater is not on their lists.

The government shutdown would also make it difficult for members of Congress to show up on December 7th — not just because the House and Senate are at work, but that they’d be photographed in black tie enjoying themselves while thousands of employees are eating from food banks.

My joke: maybe they can just have the Kennedy Center Honors in the East Wing. Too soon?

So stay tuned.

PS A big question: with all this activity, will we see or hear Barron Trump? He hasn’t been seen in public for most of 2025.

World Series Starts Tonight as Toronto Blue Jays Get New Unofficial Song Featuring Guess Who? Superstar Randy Bachman

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World Series Starts Tonight as Toronto Blue Jays Get New Unofficial Song Featuring Guess Who? Superstar Randy Bachman

I told you already about rapper SRE joining up with the great Randy Bachman (just nominated for a Songwriters Hall of Fame induction) for an unofficial Toronto Blue Jays song.

Now they’ve update the song, called “I Want it All,” they say because Monday’s ALCS game. They say, “the game was so historic that SRE recut the song with new lyrics incorporating the names of players Max Scherzer, Andres Giminez, and Trey Yesavage as well as Guerraro’s in the middle of the song. SRE also put the very timely World Series into the lyrics and in tribute to Guerraro and the other players whose first language is Spanish. SRE raps in Spanish at 1:48 of the song.”

Bachman’s guitar solo promises you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Here’s the short video they’ve cut to go along with the song, which is below the video and ads. How many teams get a new tribute from their country’s leading guitarist? Rock on!

Jennifer Lopez Cancels Savannah Film Festival Appearances as “Kiss of the Spider Woman” Disappears from Theaters

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Jennifer Lopez Cancels Savannah Film Festival Appearances as “Kiss of the Spider Woman” Disappears from Theaters

You can’t blame her, really.

Jennifer Lopez was supposed to be honored this weekend at the Savannah Film Festival. She was to receive the Virtuoso Award, and be feted by the festival known as SCAD.

JLo, however, has dropped out of the whole shebang. She’s not showing up, and they’re not screening her movie, “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”

You can’t blame her. “Spider Woman” is mostly out of theaters after two weeks. Roadhouse Attractions completely screwed up the release. The film made  $1.6 million over 2 weeks. Yesterday the total take was $22,000. At the same, Lopez was bravely doing publicity, unaware that her movie was dead.

JLo got good reviews in “Spider Woman.” So did her co-stars. Bill Condon knows how to make a musical. But you can’t do it without a real movie company. I call Roadhouse ‘Roadkill’ for a reason.

SCAD will still have lots of celebrities including Regina Hal, Oscar Isaac, Will Arnett, Spike Lee, Sydney Sweeney, and so on. They can all take the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tour. But not JLo. She’s smart to go home and lick her wounds.

As for the movie, it will get saved by the Critics Choice and Golden Globes in the comedy/musical categories. Lopez could get a nomination from either group if the movie is shown to voters. When it goes to streaming people will be curious. But learn the lesson, folks.

Cheryl Hines Promotional Book Tour Fails to Sell Copies: “Unscripted” Advance Sales At Number 19,793 on Amazon So Far

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Cheryl Hines Promotional Book Tour Fails to Sell Copies: “Unscripted” Advance Sales At Number 19,793 on Amazon So Far

Cheryl Hines had better curb her enthusiasm. So far her book tour isn’t working.

Hines is out there trying to drum up advance sales for “Unscripted,” her ill timed book about not answering questions about husband Robert Kennedy Jr.

The book is coming on November 11th. So far, with all of Hines’ publicity, “Unscripted” is number 19,793 on Amazon. The public is not clamoring for it, that’s for sure.

See the clip below. Hines takes so long to not answer a question about RFK Jr’s “digital affair” with reporter Olivia Nuzzi that she almost falls asleep. I almost did, too.

I hope Hines is happy with her life choices. She’s destroyed her career, her good will, and any respect anyone had for her. I also hope the publisher hasn’t printed up too many copies of “Unscripted.”

Box Office: “Deliver Me from Nowhere” Opens Soft in Previews, Will Build Over Weekend, “Chainsaw Man” Anime $3.4 Million

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Box Office: “Deliver Me from Nowhere” Opens Soft in Previews, Will Build Over Weekend, “Chainsaw Man” Anime $3.4 Million

Well, it takes all kinds.

“Chainsaw Man — The Movie” brought in $3.4 million last night in previews.

It’s an anime film coming from a TV series you can also watch on Disney Plus. “Chainsaw Man” is a niche release. Does it have legs? Or are they chain sawed? I guess time will tell…

“Deliver Me from Nowhere,” the absolutely great Bruce Springsteen movie, opened soft last night with $850,000 in previews.

Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong are outstanding in Scott Cooper’s movie. Also today, Bruce released “Nebraska 82,” the box set including the long awaited “Electric Nebraska.” That’s the E Street Band version of his famous acoustic album.

Music fans — not just Springsteen fans — won’t want to miss this film.

keep refreshing…

TV: Donnie Wahlberg’s “Boston Blue” Opens 600K Viewers Short of “Blue Bloods” with Watered Down Version of Original Series

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TV: Donnie Wahlberg’s “Boston Blue” Opens 600K Viewers Short of “Blue Bloods” with Watered Down Version of Original Series

Last Friday’s “Boston Blue” was missing a couple of things.

Mostly. the Reagan family from “Blue Bloods.”

Donnie Wahlberg stars in a “Blue” spin off that’s a shadow of the original 14 year run series.

The result? Last Friday, numbers were 4.6 million, down from the 5.3 million average of ‘Blue Bloods” final season. And that was with heavy promotion.

That’s a loss of 600,000 viewers.

Tonight is the second episode. Will more old “Blue Bloods” fans tune in? Or do they small a rat, a runaround to get rid of Tom Selleck and the original cast in order to cut costs and move on?

Sequels or spin offs of hit TV shows rarely work. “Frasier” was the notable exception. Back in the day there was “Lou Grant” and “Rhoda.” But shows like “Joey,” born out of “Friends,” died quickly. We’ll see how Blue Boston gets pretty soon.

Hey– maybe “Boston Blue” will revisit Mark Wahlberg’s long ago arrests, conviction, and jail time from the 1980s for racially motivated attacks in Boston. Mel Gibson could play his lawyer. Now, that’s a storyline!

Famed Artist and Director Julian Schnabel Planning Rollout of Stunning New Film “In the Hand of Dante” Starring Oscar Isaac Next Year

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Famed Artist and Director Julian Schnabel Planning Rollout of Stunning New Film “In the Hand of Dante” Starring Oscar Isaac Next Year

Julian Schnabel is not only a world famous classic artist shown in the best museums and the most important galleries. He’s also a respected filmmaker of award winning movies like “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Before Night Falls,” and “Basquiat.”

Schnabel showed his newest film, a much anticipated passion project called “In the Hand of Dante,” at the Venice Film Festival recently. Top critics on Rotten Tomatoes loved it. Bloggers weren’t so sure. Soon more critics will see it, and “Dante” will probably open early next spring.

I got to see “Dante” this week, and it’s magnificent. The movie is based on a literary thriller by the late great author Nick Tosches in which he casts a fictional version of himself — played by an all encompassing Oscar Isaac — on the hunt for a previously unknown manuscript of the famed 13th century poet Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy.” (FYI Dante’s other great work, “The Inferno,” presented the author as a fictionalized version of himself.)

The Nick character — innocent and earnest at the beginning and something 180 degrees away by the end — is enlisted by a shady mob guy (a perfectly squirmy and sinister John Malkovich) to find the manuscript and authenticate it. Of course “Nick” falls in love with a beautiful associate (Gal Gadot), who’s also in on the effort. He’s also tailed by a psycho mob goon (a surprisingly pungent Gerard Butler in maybe his best work ever). The film proceeds on two levels — Nick’s investigation in black and white, and the imagined “real” story of Dante, which is told in a saturated color palette.

That’s a lot of movie right there but that’s not all: Al Pacino sets the story up, and later director Martin Scorsese has an extended and memorable not-to-be-missed cameo in the Dante plot as a wizened oracle. Jason Momoa — freed from comic book movies — plays a dark, menacing character following “Nick.” Among others in the large cast are the excellent Louis Cancelmi from “Billions” and Sabrina Impacciatore from “The White Lotus.”

“In the Hands of Dante” was shot by Roman Vasyanov alternately like a trip to the Louvre and another to a downtown Italian social club. Because he’s such a gifted artist, Schnabel knows images. Almost every scene of this movie is frame-able. Filmed in photogenic Italy, the production is alive in every scene. It’s a two and half hour movie but there’s nary a slow spot. You can’t take your eyes off of it.

The movie also has a knockout score by Benjamin Clementine, who also has a startling cameo. Schnabel wrote the screenplay with his wife, Louise Kugelberg.

Schnabel still has some slight tweaking and trimming to do, which is no surprise considering this huge undertaking. (There’s a particularly gruesome torture scene that needs a lightening up. Also, the ending is wild, but maybe appropriate for this Italian opera.) He can do it.The director has made complex movies before, like the excellent “At Eternity’s Gate” about Vincent van Gogh. In “The Diving Bell,” most of the movie was from the point of view of the eye of a paralyzed man and received four Oscar nominations.

But in the hand of Schnabel, Tosches’s material comes alive in brilliant and unexpected ways. This is the kind of movie we used to see from the great auteurs of the 70s like Scorsese, who is also executive producer of this film. “In the Hand of Dante” is the kind of exciting work we see infrequently now — like “The Brutalist” — and need so much for cinema to survive.

We’ve got a lot to look forward to next year.

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